The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1872, Page 10

10 MOLTKE’S STORY. The Great Soldier’s History of the Late Franco-Prussian War. ‘What Ho Thinks of the French SoldiereEvils in the French Army—Napoleon’s Plan of Cam- paign—The Part the French Navy Was to Play—Differenco in the Numerical Strength of the Two Armies—Ger- many Thoroughly Prepared Franoe Unprepared and Her Army Disorganized—A Full Review of His ‘Work on the War. BERLIN, August 25, 1872. Tt Was announced several months ago that ‘the ‘historical diviston of the German Chief Stat weuld ‘publish an accouat of the Franco-German war. As ‘this account mtgnt fairly be presumed to contain the views of Count Moltke and the other most dis- tinguished chiefs-of the German army, its appear- ‘ance was naturally looked forward to with con- uiderable interest, The first instalment of the work has just been publisned, and I hasten to give your readers.a general outline of what it contains. THE PRESENT VOLUME ‘feals only with the events in the month of July, 4870. It:opens with an introduction, giving an account ‘of the origin of the war from, of course, the German point of view. On this subject the volume says nothing very new. This para- graph, however, is worthy of attention:—‘In the country, indeed, opinion is said to have been amregervedly for the war in sixteen, against the war in ‘thirty-four departments, while in thirty- seven departments opinions were divided. But in France the word is of as much importance as the ced. People congratulate each other on the ground of a speech, and an animated address which appeals to the glory of the nation is able to drag away even reasonable men to the extremest | apd North Germany, just as the force and numbers ‘that Prussia had ‘already, in the ca! of 11 j brought about ‘three nundred and thorean men into the field, and that its had'since NEW YUKK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1872,—TRIPLE SHEET. was expected. Tm the Emperor MacMahon and Yon of and with 50,000 men more in the camp at Chalons, It was then intended to draw the ig Metz nearer on to Strasbourg and to cross the Rhine at Mapau with a stre! of 250,000 men. Aiter the South Gerinan States had thas been compelied into neutrality, the Prussian was to sought out and conquered, During these operations the task was assigned to the erve Corps, ‘lirected from Chalons on Metz, to cover the back of the army and to watch the northeast boundary. the ‘same time it was expected that the appear. ance of the fleet in the Baltic Sea would retain™® 1 rd the coasts, ed was based on the cer- taimy correct idea that the superiority of the enemy could only be counterbalanced by rapidity of mevement, but-tilusory 28 to the relations of South efthe Prussian forces were underrated. This last fact was the more strik: as it should be knowa received a not inconsiderable increase. Bealdes, it was not then known how little the French army in its then condition was fitted for a rapid opening of the campaign and the rapid carrying on of ‘opera- tions.” “The volume then goes on to point-out that it was the defective arrangements of the railways—defective I mean in @_ miiita ‘point of .view—the concentration of provi- sions, matériel, &c., and the length of time neces- sare for wens the indispensable distributions, which principally prevented the rapid mobilization of the French forces, It points out another cause also. ‘The experiences,” it says, “of the last war in Italy had by no means proved that French ‘troops in large masses could do much in the way of marching. Atleast people in Prussia could well Temember that the army of the Emperor, which then numbered only 100,000 men, had, after the victory of Magenta to the day of Solferino, marched on an average but one mile a day. French Giplontane might have been. able to prevent the outbreak of the war till they were ready to strike the blow, but it declared war before the government was in a position to give immediate effect to this declara- tion, and it thus happened afterwards that the forces of France, before they were fully collected and ready for oifensive operations, were attacked by the German armies on their own ground.” The preliminaries of the struggles being thus given, the May next describes the events which trans- re‘ ERYWREN THE DECLARATION OF WAR AND THE FIRST EC ENES ofthe campaign. No story can be more pitiful than that told im these pages of the volume. How rapidity was the very first necessity ‘of success, and yet everything went on with fearful slowness; how now this division and now that was found defec- tive; how the Emperor, coming to Metz, found dis- resolutions. With the centralization which exists ‘the provinces follow helplessly the impulse to war a8 well as to reyolution which issues from the capital, Napoleon III. appears to have played in the whole affatr a passive, one might almost say, & witless part.” This isa remarkable admission, when we remember how passionatcly it was contended that the war against Ger- many was emphatically a war of all France and not of a dynasty or of politicians. THE FRENCH ARMY. The second chapter of the volume deals with “The French Army: Its.Plan of Operation and March Forward, 15th to the 3ist July.” It sets down the number of men whom France could bring into the fleld on the Ist of August as 334,009, It states that France’s supply of arms waa excel- Jent, both as regards quantity and quality. The Cbassepot it speaks of as ‘“‘an excellent weapon, of Jong range.’”’ The artillery was also well supplied With ammunition. But when we come to consider ‘the reserve army we find everything in confusion for such an army. There were neither weapons nor clothes nor ammunition; its artillery and its cavalry had in almost every respect to be created out of the new, “THE FIELD ARMY,”’ continues the volume, ‘could thus alone be counted upon, and this was not specially fitted by its organization for a rapid change from a peace to awar footing, * * * The military administra- tion was centralized to the last point, and was ‘thus, as well as by its having the duty of attending ‘to courts-martial, overburdened with work. Army corps and divisions had no commissariat in peace. * * * In consequence of this the armament ma- ‘terial was, during peace, concentrated in a few places. The supplies of vottures de transport were collected in Vernon and Chateauroux. The maga- zines for camp requisites were for the most purt im Paris and Versailles. A speedy distribution from these depots to the single corps was in this way rendered extraordinarily dificult on a general mobilization.” Having thus criticised the admin- stration of the army, we are next presented with A CRITICISM OF THE ARMY ITSELF. “The internal condition of the army,” we are told, “was suffering from many grave defects, Even in the judgment of his own countrymen the French soldier was not at the outbreak of the war what he had been in the Crimean war and in Italy. The law with regard to reserves and bounty had worked disadvantageously upon him, It permitted substitution to an excessive degree. For example, in a contingent of 75,000 men ot the year 1869 alone there were 42,000 substitutes, whose quality is known by experience to deteriorate with increased length of service. And also ex- tended furlough for a longer period, which were unknown at an earlier time, were described by French authorities as prejudicial to military discipline. In addition, the corps of non-commissioned ofticers no longer stood at its early excellence. There were In many regiments sergeants who had discharged their duties for eleven years and upwards without a prospect of promotion or of the ailieviation of an existence that had been sacrificed to the country almost in uninterrupted conflicts, Many good elements of the corps accordingly sought in civil employment a more remunerative occupation. The corps of ofli- cers in like manner was just as little composed of Almost one-third of them the younger officers did not devote their whole strength to the service, the older subaltern officers stood in sharp contrast to them. They formed, on the average, the best elemeut of the army. Rien experiences and valuable qualities, ripened in the diferent campaigns of the Em- pire, were represented nga them. But the prevalent favoritism often of deeply compro- mised persons, justly irritated them, and opened 4 to them but siight prospects for the future. levertheless an increased mental activity had dis- played itself in this class since the year 1360, and it ‘was these very officers, wlio most sought on the battle flelds of France to wash out with their blood faults for which they were not responsible. The fame system of favoritism had brought to high places inany elements, which were not equai to the tasks imposed upon them, aud exercised, as every- ‘where else where it has iorce, its unhealthy in- fluence. In addition, the political position of parties came into consideration. By the constant change of the form of government that fidelity and adherence a hereditary house of rulers in the army as well as in the nation generally, which in other countries prevents destructive revolutions of public affairs, were lost. The French officer, and even the private Boldier, serves his country, aud serves it with de- “Te and self-sacrifice, but he does not hold on the changing form of the head of the State with that constant seuse of daty which sacrifices all its strength in unconditional recognition of authority. The French ofticer, as well as the entire nation, is animated with a high, and in many res; pects just- Hable, self-consciousness, but also With a dep/ecia- Uon of others. His whole education is calculated inspire him with the conviction that France stands before all other countries, Lf tlie pupil of ‘St. Cyr passes through the golden halts of Ver- Gailles he sees scarcely anything but battle pictures, and in all the French are victors. In long rows the herocs stand who borne the orifamme, the lilies, the tricolor, but always the banner of France, into the chief cities of almost every country, Thus tho French history of war is a history of uubroken | triumph, an epic, in which deieats are to be ex- gr merely by subsidiary circumstances, and as ff they were unimportant, or by treason. To seek the truth is not worth the trouble; to express it would be unpatriotic. No wonder, then, if the young officer troubles himself little about other countries—about their larguage, institutions and circumstances. The foreigner speaks his language to him; he comes to him in order to learn and tmi- tate. In France le had ‘scarcely an idea of the transformation which two campaigns had eftected in the feelings of the German race; of their no longer conquerable feeling of solidarity, and they were completely surprised to find an opponent equal to them. THE NAVY OF FRANCE. The volume next deals with the navy of France; ‘but as its observations on this point contain noth- dng new or very interesting, | sliall goon to the pas- sage iu which THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN, supposed to have becn formed by Napoleon III. is discussed, Judging by pamphiets published under the auspices of the Emperor, it is conguded that the superiority of the German forces to the forces of france was by no means unknown to the French mihtary authorities; they, in fact, had concluded ‘hat their troops should be set down at 300,000 men and the troops of Germany at 550,000 men. Bays tue volume, “the Emperor hoped mot only to ralyze this numerical superiority of ajmost jouble his numbers, but even to franaiorm tis state of things to his own favor. The condition of accomplishing this was that he shonid succeed in crossing the Rhine ‘nawares in its course upwards and thus separate Southern and Northern Germany from one another, Isolated Prussia was calculated to have forces to Dumber of 660,000 combatants, and, as a result ‘sss victory. the adhesion of Austria and Italy organization and BiORS pare anne everywhere ; how the plan of invading rmany wavered and was and the Moselle we cannot easily be *axen by sur- prise, and, to make sure that everything shal! be in order when the moment arrives, W’; have drawn up a list, showing the train by which every battalion 18 to be conveyed, with the time ‘of starting and ar- rival accurately fixed. On th’, tenth day after the order of mobilization the fire’, detachments will ar- rive in the neighborhood Of *,ne French frontier. By the thirteenth ay they Wi’, have been increased to two vorps dai On the clghtoenth tay they will number ba ged men, 297, on the twentieth they will be provided with neay jy ali the and am- Munition trains an‘; ‘the Commissariat Service. There is no reason *.9 sup} that the calling in of the French reger*ves and the mobilization of the filled-up cadres Gan be more rapidly effected than that of our owa. Since Napoleon I. the French a Yas Never been mobilized as a whole, and the IL ‘izations which have repeatedly oc- curred can be hardly regarded as on a par in point of magnitude with the much more comprehensive measure that would have to be adopted on the eve of aGerman campaiga. ‘It is true, if the French determine to take the fleld without reserves, @ much shorter period would suffice to assemble 150,000 men in their north-eastern provinces. Those provinces have plenty of garrisons, camps and Tailways, and the daring nature of the enterprise would suit the national character, and has, indeed, been discussed in milit circles, Euppos: such an army, amply provided with cavalry an joned at Metz on the fifth day after receiving orders to march, it might cross the frontier at Saarlouis on the eighth day. we need not send our troops across tl might stop our military trains on the right bank of the river, which could not be reached by the invad- ing army before tne 14th aay, when we should be stronger than the enemy. ith the bridges in our hands we should a few days later assume the offen- sadvan' es of & inv: evident that Y do not think it wilt be ventured upon.’’ RBADY 70 COMMENCE WHEN THE WORD WAS GIVEN. It will thus be seen that Germany entered into war witn her plans thoroughly matured. When King William received the declaration of war allhe had to do was to express Approval of Count Moltke’s plan, and at once Count Moltke proceeded to put his plan into execution. Those who watched the war with attention will see how closeiy Moltke, in 1870, followed the scheme he had drawn up nearly two years before. THE CHEROKEES. The “Civilized” Nation as Seen by the Government Sub-Committee. persisted in and then wavered again; how while the Movements of the French troops were well known to the Germans those of the German troops were scarcely thought of until they came down like an avalanche—all these things are told with graphic and foreibie simplicity. But the story 4s already well known, and the present volume ig more valuable for its general observations than for its history of particular movements, with which we are all more or less acquainted. I shall, therefore now pass to the next chapter of the work—a clap- ter of deep interest, It is headed, “THE GERMAN ARMIR3—THEIR PLAN OF OPERATIONS and their march forward up to the 3lst of July.” The first pages of this chapter give in detail an ac- count of the German forces. The field army amounted to 462,300 men; the reserve to 297,500 men. But we now come to the most interesting part of the book—the part in which Von Moltke de- tails the plan he had matured of dealing with the French army a long time before the war broke out. “It forms one of the duties of the Chief Stat,” we are told, “in times of peace to work out, in the most detailed manner, the grouping and the trans- port of bodies of troops for all probable warlike eventualities, and to hold sketches for this purposs ready by anticipation. When an army begins its march forwards all hinds of political and geographical considerations have to be taken into account as well as military considerations. Defects iu the original concentra- tion of the army can scarccly be repaired iu the whole course of a campaign. All these arrange- ments, however, can be considered long before- hand, and the readiness for war of the troops and the organization of the transport service being pre- supposed, they must lead te the intended result, It Is otherwise with strategy—with the employment in war of the means already prepared. Here our will is met by the independent will of ourepponent. ‘This can certainly be restrained if one has prepared for and resolved upon the initiative at the proper moment, and it can only be preven by a battle. The material and moral consequences of every great battle are now so wide spreading that an entirely diferent situation and, as a result, amew basis for new operations may be created by it. No plan of be Se can go beyond the first rencontre with the enemy’s chief force with any certainty. No one but a civilian believes that he can perceive in the course of a teeny, the carrying through of a plan that has been deiinitely fixed beforehand in every particular, and that has been stuck to even to the end, The Commander-in-Chief will, of course, always keep his great objects before his eyes, un- disturbed by the vicissitudes of events, but the er by whieh he hopes to attain them can never e designated with safety long beforehand.” De- talled proposals for the collection of all the German forcesin case of a war against France, and for the arrangement and division of the single armies, as the basis of all further operations, we find laid down ina memoir of the Prussian Chief of Stat, which dates from the Winter of 1868-69. ‘The fires object of operations is laid down to be “to find the pe cipal army of the enemy and to attack it, when found.” In this simple plan the diiiiculty is pointed out which arises from the Management. of the ‘very large bodies” required for such a purpose and as a leading idea, Even from the first movements the effort may be recognized to cut off the powerful army of the enemy in a northerly direction from its communi- cation with Paris, The above-mentioned memoire of General von Moltke then estimates the propor- tionate STRENGTH OF THE FIRS ARMIES OF THE TWO SIDES. “Setting out with the Pied ert that, in conse. quence of its transport and other relations, North Germany would dispose of only ten corps—these are set down at 339,000 men—to which France could at the first moment ornvee but 250,000 men, and after the enrolinent of its reserves 343,000 men, this proportion of the forces in the begi act to a considerable extent in our fav: A was not then quite certain, the South German States at the same time took part ig the war, or if only the three disposable reserve corps and some of the Landwehr divisions in course of fermation could be drawn from North ey, at the proper time, It is clear how important it is thaf we should utilize the superiority which we have at the very beginning, even with the North German forces alone. These will be still further increased at the decisive point, if the French embark on expedi- tions against the North Sea Coast or against South Germany. To defend us against the first, suiicient mesns remato in the country, In reference to the latter operation, conversations had already taken place at Berita with the representatives of the South German tingents. The conviction had been formed that North Germany was not in a con- dition to give at the first moment, even from a dis- tance, an effective, immediate a) in the direct defence of the Upper thine and the Black Forest; that a still greater security of the German South would arise from ® union of all the forces on the Middle Rhine, which from there could attack offen- sively, either on the right or the left bank, tie flank of the hostile invasion, and should thus soon compel this to stand still or return. This fact, especially, deserves to be brought ont, that the South German Princes, agreeing with these views, in devotion to the common cause and confiding in the chief commander of the army, did not hesitate to deprive their own territories of their forces in order to join immediately to the North German army, The task which the North undertook became thus the more diMcuit. THE NEUTRALITY OF DELGIUM, HOLLAND AND SWIT- ZERLAND. The Mémoire then goes on to show that the neu- trality of Relgium, Holland and Switzerland may be regarded as certain; therefore, the theatre of war Is limited to the space between Luxemburg and Bale, “We may,” the Mémoire, continues, am 8g Asan ¢ with probability that the Krench will make their first colicéntratidn on the lind of Metz-Strasburg, in order that avoiding our stronger Rhine front, they may push on to the Main, | separate North and South Germany, come to an agreement with the latter, and, With this as a basis, advance on to the Elbe. HOW TO MEET THE EMERGENCY. “The best way of parrying such an attack would be to assemble all our disposable forces south of the Moselle, and more especially in the Bavarian Palatinate. By thus stationing ourselves in the left fank of the enemy we shall always be able to force him to stay his progress in an eastern direction; and if tho Baden-Wirtemburg corps | Joins our left wing we may be in a position to se | | on a decision not very far from Rastatt, in which case defeat must result in the destruction of the | enemy. Should a mere raid into the country nd- Joining the Black Forest be undeitaken by a por- ton of the hostile troops there will be nothing to | prevent our detaching a corps or two to hp ta the invading army. Our main force will thereby be ho more weakened than the enemy weakens himself by employing a portion of his strength on a task of Secondary importance. If the French fally avail them: ofthe advantages offered by their rail- Way system, they will have to send thelr troops to two points, Strasburg and Metz. Supposing the troops concentrated at Strasburg are not des- patched to the Black Forest, they will probably joia the army of the Moselle, performing the distance chiefly on foot. The Palatinate, therefore, affords us a position between the two wings of the enemy. From thence we may tarn agatnst his right or Ms left, or against both shouid we be strong enough. The assumption of the offensive from so favorable & position, if resolved upon in time, will probably | Ae the enemy from setting foot on Germai soil. S MOBILIZATION OF THE GERMAN Anwy. “But it may Sr iaeteen whether it would be safe to effect the first concentration of our truops | in the Palatinate—that.is, in the immediate vicinity of the enemy. In my opinion there will be no wan- ie in such @ step, it being not at all likely that the rat arrivals will be attacked juperior number's while yet too weak to offer ate resistance, We are repared for mobilization &@ moment's notice. ‘ith Aix railways at our disposal to trans- post the troops to the country between the Rhine Their Lands and National Existence—Clinging tothe Old Government Guarantee—The Work of Washington Lobbyists in Their Midst— Railroads Forcing the Progress of Civilization—An Interview with an Old Cherokee Highlander. MuskoGez, I. T., July 24, 1872. The sub-committee deputed hy the House Com- mittee on Indian Affairs to conduct certain investi- gations in this Territory closed up its bisinoss here to-day, with the exception of making a per- sonal examination and estimate of a large tract of land belonging to the Cherokees, lying west of tho ninety-sixth degree of longitude, and which is to be ceded back to the United States government for the ‘use of the Osages and other Indian tribes, most of them being warlike and predatory. These are the lands in respect of which Mr. 8, S. Smoot, of Washington, had made a contract for the extraordinary contingent fee detailed in my last letter from Fort Gibson, and which, if the contract were carried ont, would net that aspiring lob- byist an amount ranging between $500,000 and $3,000,090. Two of the delegates who made that contract with Smoot were examined to- day before the committee, their testimony being to the effect that, having had reason to dread that the price of the lands would be graded down to something like twenty-five cents an acre, they were willing to make the most liberal terms with any one who had influence enough to secure a fair price for them and to effect a reconsideration of the award already made, fixing fifty cents an acre as the price of that portion of them assigned to the Osages, which is by far the most valuable portion; ‘that Smoot was indicated to them as a most suc- cessful lobbyist; that on the prestige which he en- Joyed and on his assurance that he had a large circle of most influential friends, who would also require pay for their services, they had entered into this contract with him; that he had already obtained for them the reconsideration of the de- cision in the Osage matter, and that they knew nothing and cared nothing of the means which.he employed go long as those means were effectual. They hadeven been led to believe that the visit of the sub-committee to the lands in ques- tion was a step in that direction, brought about through the influence of the all-powerful Smoot, The indignation of the committee at finding its oM- cial action thus made use of by an unscrupulous lobbyist may well be imagined. The trip came near being abandoned altogether; but cooler counsels prevailed, and Messrs. Shanks, Burdett and Smith set off this evening for the lands lying west of the ninety-sixth degree. FAIR PLAY FOR THE INDIANS, The committee has been now four weeks in this Territory, has taken a large masse of testimony and has gained an Insight into Indian affairs which tt never could have atéained without a personal visit. From all that I have seen and heard I am led to believe that the most ettectual Measures will be adopted for the cancellation ofthe Smoot and Latrobe contracts, and, if pos- sible to compel the restitution to the Indians of the immense sums out of which they have been de- frauded, Indeed, I should not wonder if criminal proceedings were instituted against some of the arties for being engaged in aconspiracy to rob. there should be on the statute book a law similar tothe old “Champerty” law in England, which makes it criminal for a lawyer to prosecute actions for a contingent fee. Such a law would break up the swarms of claim agents who now roost in the neighborhood of the departments at Washington, and would save the National Treasury the millions of which it is annually defrauded by the operations of these legalized bandittl. THE INDIAN’S AVERSION TO WORK, Ibelieve that I referred in one of my previous letters to the remarkable rarity of Indians in this Territory, which is exclusively reserved for them. Along the line of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad none but white people are seen. Where railroad stations are established and places of business and accommodation opened, the people around are all white, having their right of domicile either as licensed traders, as employés of the rall- road company, as persons necessarily connected with the transaction of railroad business or as citizens of the Indian nation from haat married Indian wives. Where the road is still in process ofconstruction there are to be seen, in suitable lo- calities in the neighborhood, temporary log strue- tures or large canvas tents for the accommoda- of the hundreds of meciianics, laborers and ollicials employed in the prosecution of the work. These are moved from week to week, according as the gangs of men ave _ move forward. But even here you see no trace of the Indian. Occasionally an odd one applies for aud gets work as a laborer, but he generally drops on Weg i day at to, thorouglily disgusted with dvilization, so far as it 13 Feptonouted by steady and persistent toil. The railroad men say that the Indian is @ natural born aristocrat, and despises work. Eh wold rather starve than work. Hence, although work and a profitabie market are pre- seuted to them by the construction of Het tirgad line, they do not take any advantage of the chances thus offered, and the supplies for the railroad hands Lid to be brought from Texas, Kansas and Mis- sourl, RAILROAD EMPLOYES. The teams employed in the work are also from | these States; but the buik of the men aye foreign- era, principally Irish and Swiss. Their wages are from $2 to $2 60a day; and men who own their teams get $5. Isaw in a Kansas paper the other day an advertisement jor 500 more mon and teams at those rat: There are already from eighteen hundred to two thousand men at work, but the company is straining every nerve to have the road in operation as far as the Red Kiver by October next, so as to command the next Winter trade of Texas, Iam told that there has been very little sickness among the railroad hands since they have come iuto this Territory, and | can very weil believe it, as this region is remarkably heaithy and well watered, THE INDIAN TERRITORY. I doubt whether any other pore of this broad land can present such a beautiful, rich, magnificent region of country as that assigued to the Indians, it is no wonder, therefore, that there is s0 much anxiety manifested in the ae f States to have the Indian title extinguisued and the Terri- tory opened to public setticinent. Large numbers of people from Missouri and Kansas, not content to wait for Congressional action in the matter, have already crossed the border, put up rude log cabins and planted and fenced corn fields, cal- culating to obtain squatter rights in this way; bat for the most part these enterprising American cit- izens have only come to loss and trouble, and either have been or are being expelled from the Territory as intruders—the troops at Fort Gibson having been sent there principally for that purpose. INDIAN OR AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. What will be the policy of the United Staten gov- ernment in that respect? That is the question which, wore even than the Presidential uucation. ts occupying the minds and thoughts of the white peo- le in the porde ‘States und of the whites and half-breeds in the Territory. fol rmer are, of Jands connected with the a directors, stockholders, bondholders and offtials of the railroad company, because on that event taking place the company becomes entitled, under its charter, to alternate sections of land for ten or twenty miles on each side of the line. So does the Atlantic and Pacific Railr iompany, which has its road open to where it crosses the line of the Missouri, Kansas and Texa’ i at Vinita, But I must say that I have not met the first Indian, pp en or Smee a who is not bitterly opposed to the proposition. PRM SFE in -le-qual cap! tion, Thad along taik on that subject, last week, with a Cherokee Scottish Highlander, Dr, Gordon Miller, who has been for the last six years holding the oficial position of ocretaty (0 Governor, or principal chief, as he is called. His own history is @ singular one. Forty years a young physician, he made his be of fortune from Montreal to the Roc! thence down to Santa Fé, and thence across Georgia and the Carolinas, where the Cherokee In- dians then resided. He married a Cherokee wo man and became incorporated in the tribe, and has been living among the Indians ever since, with the exception of a period of time which he spent in Calitornia and Kansas. He is an uncompromising opponent of any change that would affect the Cherokee nationality or allow an incursion of white settlers into their country, believing that the re- suit would be the extinction of the Indians. I sug- ested to him that the only true way of raising the Indian in the plane of civilization was to brin; into close contact and competition with the whites, from whom he would Jearn the principles of trade, agriculture and the mechanic arts. Bu to all this he opposed the objection—first, tnat the Cherokees were not prepared for such contact and competition; and, second, that they were protected under solemn treaty stipulation with the United States from being ex! to such danger. that connection he referred to the language of the treaty or articles of Convention of i, 6, 1828, under which the Cherokee Indians, residing both west and east of the Mississippi, were guaranteed in the country which they now possess ‘‘a per- manent home, and which shall, under the most solemn guarantee of the United States, be and re- main theirs forever—a home that shall never in ali future time be embarrassed by having extended around it the lines or placed over it the jurisdiction of a Territory or State, nor be pressed upon by the extension in any way of any ol the limits of any existing Territory or State.’’ It would ental have been dificult to put into language more definite or precise the right of sov- erelgnty which the Cherokees have ever since been exercising over the country thus assigned and se- cured to them, and to the surrender of which they are unanimously opposeds, To the suggestion that the United States government cannot continue to recognize the distinct nationality of the Indians any more than the British government could toler- ate the quasi independence of the Highland clans, this old Highlander, who spoke with as broad a Gaelic accent as Rob Roy himself might have done, interposed the terms of the treaty. He admitted that forty years 70, when consulted by the Cher- okee chiefs as to their policy in that regard, he had replied that, whatever ‘might be his judg- ment as @ man of the world, he was bound, 48 an Indian, and ep ne 3 at the question frem an Indian standpoint, to advise against closer affiliation with the whites, He thought that the Cherokees of that generation were not prepared for it, and he is now convinced that the Cherokees of the present gene- ration are still worse prepared for it. It is certainly a curious situation that the United States government finds itself in with regard to these Cherokee and other Indian nations. Its honor is bound to a faithful observance of the solemn treaty stipulations into which it has entered with them, And still this absurd and ridiculous farce of recognizing a separate nationality in the Indians must come to aciose, and that betore long. The railroad is the great innovator, revolutionist and reformer of modern days; and all societies and in- stitutions must either give way before or adapt themselves to it. The Indian system cannot be an exception, Isuggested to Mr. Miller whether such an ar- rangement as that which I outlined ina previous letter—namely, to secure to the Indians homesteads of 160 acres each, and to let the surplus land be disposed of by the United States government in in- ternal improvements and the development of the cout tty reais not be acceptable to the Cherokees, and whether they might not, in consideration o} the benefits which would be thus secured to them, be content to merge their nationality in that of the United States, and his reply was in the negative, On that point, he says, all Cherokees are agreed. And yet two curious phases in their-national exist- ence have recently taken place. One isthe ad- mission of about three thousand colored people to all the rights of Cherokee citizenship; and the other is the recent establishment of the O Indians on a reservation in the Cherokee territory, thus creating an inner imperium in imperio, for nee Osages are governed by their own laws and customs, Re Cherokee Na- CHEROKEE HALF-BRFEDS. One other singular circumstance I may mention in this connection. It is that the Cherokee half- breeds are, for the most part, of Scottish perish ‘This is accounted for by the fact that at the time of the breaking up of the id clans, [dover tt aiter the terrible massacre of Glencoe, there was & large emigration of Highlanders to the mountain- ous region of North Carolina, and many of them, recognizing in the Indian tribal system something akin to their own previous relations, became iden- tied with the Indians, and took to themselves dusky maidens in matrimonial alilance, This will account somewhat for the obstinacy of the Chero- kees in clinging to thelr political system. It may also account jor the fact that they are all to a man, iff am to credit Dr. Miller's statement, in favor of the re-election of President Grant. His Scotch descent has certainly something to do with it, though probably his avowed policy to protect the are in all their rights has ‘still more to do Wi u MELANCHOLY YACHTING ACCIDENT, Capsized iy the Sound—One of the Party Drowned. Two young men, Joseph P. St. John and James Lathrop, left Bridgeport last Monday morning for New London, in @ yacht seventeen fect in length. In their cruise they stopped at Seabrook. On Friday morning the wind rose to agale and dashed the little craft over the angry billows so that the two young men at last ade an evort to reach the shore at Clinton. , In doing so the boat capsized, and the occupants of it soon found themseives thrown on a fish-reel, up which they climped. This was at ten o’clock in the morning. Instead of remaining there till help would arrive they plunged in, with a view to reach the shore, but St. John soon disappeared under the waves, and his body nas not since been recovered. His parents reside at 86 Warren strect, Jersey City. He was a dentist by profession, twent: years of age, of medium height, had dark hair, dar! side whiskers and wore light pants, THE BROADWAY SHOOTING AFFRAY, Coroner Young yesterday afternoon visited Belle- vue Hospital and took the following ante-mortem statement of “Indian Ned,” who was shot in the head by Edward Perkins on Friday morning :— “Thad been in the concert saloon, a few doors from the one called the “New idea,” on Saturday morning, with William Varley and several others. We had some drinks and afterwards had some fun. After veing there awhile we went to ‘Red's’ place, Red and I subsequently went to the “New Idea,” entering by the front door and saw a lot of prostitutes and fellows there, 1 had no trouble with any one. When I got inside some one pulled out a pistol and shot me in the face, I ao not know who shot me, but I think Lwould recognize him if I were to see him again. I think Reddy was with ine when shot. Idid not use an; violence, and did not attempt to break the door, remember nothing after being shot, as 1 was par- alyzed, Iam too weak to sign my name.’ A PERSPIGACIOUS POLICEMAN, An Argus-ycd Janitor=He Arrests a Sup- posed Burginr—The Danger of Paying Nocturnal Visits. On Saturday night, about half-past eight o'clock, the janitor of 37 Nassau street heard what he con- sidered stoaltity fgotste} 8 OD the stairs of the build- ing, and sent his wile dub as an advancea guard to reconnoitre, She found a neatly attired | gentleman upon the landing, who politely inquired the location of room 88, wherein an artist has a studio, This Hibernian lady has a morbid dread of thieves, burglars and others of that ilk; therefore she heeded not the suave interrogations of the visitor, but yelled lustily for her lord and master, ‘This stalwart Tipperarian came out en dishabtiie, a nightgown and a dilapidated pair of ants completing his attire, and proceeded to col- far he iutiuder, Despite the remonstrances of the gentleman Cerberus hauled him down stairs and forthwith delivered him into tle custody of one of the argus-cyed but addle-pated members of the Metropolitan Police force. This efficient omMicer vehemently asserted that he recognized in his risoner @ most terrible desperado— one of the most noted burgiars who create terror in the minds of susceptible and timid feminine custodians of premises in and around Pine and Cedar streets. He showed no mercy to his cap- tive, but ran him along the street with so unspar- ing@ hand that the prisoner felt compeiled to plead for succor to some firemen to prevent his maltreatment. On arrival at the Second precinct Station House in Beekman street, the prisoner a his name and occupation ia full. It was Matthew Morgan, artist and satirical carica- turist. Mr. Morgan was in the possession of Lapin backs and checks to the amount of several hun- dreds of dollare, and ssed ample epistolary proof to convince any onc but a police sergeant that he was, like Cresar’s wife, above suspicion. But the perapicacious Sergeant saw in the prisoner a first-class burglar, 80 consigned him to one of the strongest cells in the station house. In this damp, verminized and narrow apartment Mr. porgen was cae embbed, confined” until jay light came and he was ushered betore Judge Scott at the Tombs. He was immediately discharged. Com- ment is utterly unnecessary, BEAU HICKMAN FOR PRESIDENT. ‘To THE Epitor oF THE HERALD:— BALTM™MORE, Sept. 14, 1872, Since the Louisville Convention has made such & complete farce in begging a candidate for the Pre- sidency, and insist in running a man who has re- Ppeatedly declined, allow me to suggest the name of @ man whom I think will stand as much chance as Mr. O’Conor, and whose name would give éclat to the “straight-out democratic ticket.” That man 18 Beau Hickman. Now, don’t you really think that = name would look and sound better at the head of the ticket than any other name in the country? Tam only afraid that ne might not feel flattered in being associated with such men as Blanton Duncan &Co. Do you think he would object? Be enough to Uy aa him in your world-renowned pa- wet. Sow this broad rr Satute, cast, and Sblige, nov an old olltician, oung one. ” crt AMOR PATRI, SHIPPING NEWS. WHITESTONE TELEGRAPH. ‘The New Yorx Heratp has constructed a telegraph line from New York city to Whitestone, LI, and the same is now open for the transaction of business, ‘This line will be found of great service to those having business with vessels passing to and from the Sound, and every facility will be givesto merchants and others to communicate promptly. As there is no other telegraphic communication with Whitestone, the Herald Line will be open for all business and private messages, and the same attended to with all possible despatch. All mersages must be prepaid. The following rates have been established :— Private messages, twenty-five cents for ten words or Jess ; two cents for every additional word. Business messages—For a message of twenty words or Tess, to be delivered on board vessels off Whitestone, one dollar; five cents for every additional word. Advertisements for New Yorx Hxraxo free. OFrices. Herald Office, corner Broadway and Ann street, Herald Ship News Office, pier No 1 East River. Herald Branch Office, No 1265 Broadway. Whitestone Dock, Whitestone, LI. EAS anew! EEE Almanac for New York—This Day. HIGH WATER, Gov. Island,..morn 01 cos res OCEAN STEAMERS. DATES OF DEPARTURE FROM NEW YORK FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER. |_Saita Destination, Office. Bowling Green 7 Bowling Green 29 Broadway. PORT OF NEW YORK, SEPT. 15, 1872. es ARRIVALS. REPORTED BY THE HERALD STEAM YACHTS AND HERALD WHITESTONE TELEGRAPH LINE. Steamship Baltic (Br), Kennedy, Liverpool Sept 5, via ceenalown Oth with” muloe “aud passengers ta Lisde parks, ‘Steamship City of New York (Br), Lochead, Liverpool pts. via Queenstown 4th, with mdge and _67 passengers toJohn G Dale. Sept, 129 miles W of Fastnet, spoke French fishing schr Le Blonde, from Iceland for Bor- deaux, and supplied her with bread; she was under jury- ta, having been dismasted Sept 1; 6th, lat 5023, lon steamship Seanderia,, trom Cardiff for New lon 82, bark Village Belle (Br), bound Ton 42 40, a Gwion and a Hamburg east; llth, lat’46 12, lon 48 82, bark Dag- Falmouth for Philadelphia ; same day. lat Star steamer, b bound east; same day, Fayal tor Boston; tat 2 06, lon 63 und east. Steamship Ocean Queen, Baker, Aspinwall Sept 5, with mdse and passengers to the Pacific Mail Steamship Uo, Steamship Montgomery, Faircloth, Savannah Sept 12, with mdse and pussengers to R Lowden. Experience heavy gales since passing Hatteras. Ship Sea Flower (Br), Thomas, Glasgow Aug 7, with mdse to ler. Bark Ebenezer (Br), Jacobsen, London 61 gare, with mdse to § L Merchant'& Oo. Had heavy W and NW gales part of the passage; sprung mainmast; was 17 days west ofhark Roem (Nor), Oxholm, London 48 4 ith md: rk Rora (Nor), Oxhol jon with mdse toOL Wright & Co. Had strong westerly winds; was 14 Gays ‘west of the qanks. jark Bessie Parker (Br), Cox, Middlesboro 42 dave, with Tailway iron to Jay Cook & Co; vessel to Jus W Elwell & Co. Had strong variable winds up to the last 10° davs; since fine weather ; was 16 days west of the Banks, Sept 12, lat 40 14, lon 71.15, passed brig Citizen, stecring NE. Bark Chief (of Boston), Hat ng, Smyrna July 18, with mdse to Win H Cole & Co; vessel to master, Passed Gib- raltar Aug 11. Sept 10, Int 48, Jon 62, spoke bark Third of July, from Bordeaux for New York.’ Had moderate wea- er. Bark Nashwank (Br), Le Blane, Port Caledonia, days, with coal to Geo ii Brewer & Co; vessel to 8 Passed Through Hell Gate. BOUND SOUTH. Brig Wesloy 4 Seymour, Glace Bay for New York, with coal to Heney & Parker. rig F J Henderson, Henderson, Port Caledonia, CB, for New York, with coal to BJ Wenberg. _Brig Maria Wheeler, Wheeler, St George, Me, for New elone, Carter, Providence for New York. recian, Driscoll, Boston for New York. Schr Palladitim, Ryder, Providence for New York. Schr Yankee Doodle, Port Jefferson for New York. ySgitt Madison Houies, Bayles, Brookhaven tor New ‘ork, Schr AS Connors, Houghton, Boston for Philadelnhia. ., Cook, Bridgeport for New York. Pratt, Providence for New York. Schr Ambassador, Voorhies, Pawtucket for New York. Schr Ellen, Hathaway, Providence for New York, Schr F A Heath, Warren, Providence for New York. Schr Daniel J Morris, Frankfort, Pawtacket tor New ork. Schr W 8 Gesner, Beekman, Providence for New York. Schr Senator Griines, Holbrook, New Haven tor New ‘or! Schr Ney, Chase, New Bedford for New York. 8chr Mary Isabel, Cold Spring for New York. Schr Patron, Chase, Providence for New York. Schr Ira Laltrinicr, Mark, Providence for New York. Schr Francis Coffin, Wright, New Haven for New York. Schr Connecticnt, Chase. Providence for New York. Schr Mary H Minin, Kelly, Providence tor New York. Schr R H'Perry, Bassett, Providence for Philadelphia, Sehr Fancy, Gleason, Greenwich for New York. Schr Charles Miller, New Haven for Virginia. Schr J L Hess, — for New York. Schr Relief, Doran, Providence for New York. Schr Justice, Hall, Newport for New York. Mail, Mead, Greenwich tor New York, with stone to order. Schr Dart, Williams, Stamford for New York. Sehr Evelyn, Burger. Stamford for New York. Steamer Albatross, Davis, Fall River for New York, with mdse and passengers. Steamer Electra, Mott, Providence tor New York, with midge and passengers, BOUND BAST. Schr Jo: Munro, Kenny, Haverstraw for Flushing, with brick to Robt E Pock.. Schr Mary Emma, ‘Lynch, Haverstraw for Flushing, with brick to Roht & Peck. Schr Ann T Sipple, Eldridge, Rondout for Providence. Schr M Gammage, Smith, Albauy for Stamford. Wind at sunset NE, fresh. Marine Disasters. Bark Enza Ann Manta (Br), from Santos, before re- ported sunk in Hampton Roads 13th by collision with steamer J W Kverman, was struck amidsnips, making a huge rent in her side, throuch which the water poured in such yolumes that she filled and sank in 12 fathoms water a short time a(ter the collision occurred. ‘The bark was a staunch, well built yessel of about 260 tons Lurthon regls- tered. ‘the vessel is valued at $12,000 and the cargo at $100,000, the entire lows aggregating v112,00. The cargo is insured’ in New York and the vessel in England. ‘The funken vessel lies In rather a dangerous position to both inward and outward bound vessels, Aw Unknown Scuoonrn dragged anchor night of 13th in the lower part of Philadelphia harbor, a revenue cuter attempted to haul her off next morning, but desisted tll high water. Danrmoutm, Sept 2—The North German brig Eleanor, yon Flotow, from New York, which pur im here Aug 23, has undergone repairs and proceeded tor Riga, Miscelianeous. Purser W A Smith, of the steamship Ocean Queon, from Aspinwall, will please aecept our thanks for favors, We are indebted to Purser Thos J Canavan, of the steam- ship Montgomery, from Savannah, for favors. Senn Susan & Jane, of Der Isle, has been purchased by Capt Dan! Blodgett und others, and is designed for the comme trade, and wiil be commanded by Capt D Blod- get Whatemen. Arrived at Now Bedford 19th, schr Ada Dyer (not El- len Rodinan, reported yesterday as below), Dyer, of Pro- vincetown, from Atlantic Ocean, with 60 bbls sp, 200 do Wh oll and's0) Ihe hone. Reports epoke 10th inst, Tat 37 10, Ton 72 08, scits BF Sparks, Hell, of Provincetown, 190 sp Hi Ellen Rodman, Jenney, of FH, 300 sp: all told, and salle for home that day, Sailed from Panama Aug 23, bark Vaiparaiso, Baker, on a cruise. spok Ship Sir Robert Peel, Larrabee, from London for New Yip Wa A’ Campne Iprateniy, from Liverpool for St Hicharda, from New York for rk Jason (NG), bound west, Aug 29, lat 6020 N, lon at ‘8 out, ‘wood, Callao; Jeremiah ngland. nea W, da nex L Putnam (rom New York for Aux Cayes, Sept Anexpuen, Kept }—Arriged, Commodore, Greig, yw, New York (and sailed 19th on her return); & 7» Bodder, di iled 16th for Porto Bello); SE aa ee ved at do Ang 19, schr J Prince, Howes, Lemow Sept sof ship Liverpool, Lam BEreTes., Sept ved, Rebecca, Cetcovich, New Salied 24, Dr C Tupper, Cham! int, Via. qdimupsrn Sept d-arived, Contisental, Bonde, Philer Bancerona. Aug 3}—Arrived, Pastora, timore.- Ganpirr, Bept 2 Salted, Posldonyinein, Gisvest Cleared Au 3}, Geton, ft New York. Persiing for lig Aug 31, ithern Empire, Owens, for” panonsrann, Aug 28—Arrived, Etta M Tucker, Tuckers, Oxrre, Aug 27—Satled, Ferrari, Cafiero, New Y, egal ated Aksar Lawson, Bomabay 5 ng 4 Nonantuin, Sailed frou Siugor "Aug 1, Jean Ingelow, Shitiaber,. ee tenho, July 2t—Arrived, ships nther, Kilton, Paget: ; 2bth, Wi + Bist. Ons ? Macabi (and satied Aug for gland) | Aba $ . Red, Small, Corgis jute, ‘la, New Yor! bark Almena, Eldridge, twerp; 10th, shi hts for Hollendo) i nna De siete ane. Fish, , Patt Bosten; Jane 5 Sania Seon can Ryder, New York; 14th, bark Mou Foo, Nielsen, Islay (abd sailed 2th for Eten | Mideast (and ‘wailed 24ihe tor England): 308 al lee 3 os series meee Soe éd July 31; ships Valley. Forge, Wood, Guanay Hoogly, Hrost do; shy Gagamore, Wood, = ae Soi Francieeo! ist, “A McCallum, In port , ships James R Keeler, Allen, repg; Ken- SE son tbret, ohmoon be Woda, Rahs eb De , bark Alpha, Naess, fromNew. Yorke ambare bark Alpha, Naess, wa 81—Cleared, Henry Pelham, Vickery, Saq vannah, Blanchard, Cardi! td ee Aug 23—Salled, Celsus (0), Haig, New York vist Etsixome, Ang 30—Arrived, sha Rogers, a ei Oa enema, Disnons Now OF ba Eigil, Larsen; Vi le Gacace,. ang. Amico, Esposito, New ‘rancesco, Matarazzo, 5 ‘ nae, July 30--Arrived, dingaralia, Miner, Boston.) | otanarn 19—In Port ships Valley Forge, Wood, ang watiniiy Ang SE*Arrived in the roads, John Bryote Guanape. Cleared ist J’A Stamler, Samson, New York, Hxuvoss, Septtcarrived, J 8 Walsh, Horbert, Now: Havas, Sept 11—Arrived, bark Cardenas, Sundberg ag ES Beanies ein ep do. Now Yorks Paluces Locke, Galveston s Bd, davannany aera dt “Colonist Welsh, Savannah; Vancouver, elke,’ New Yor ; . John Sydney, Bartlett, Philadelphia; Leonora, Edmond~_ *Gionred 2a Waterloo, Lowther, New Orleans. Entered out Sept 2, Louisiana (6), Stewart for, New ox teans, Wisconsin’), Freeman, aud Cetvrit Dubrovach, Vacchettl, New Yorks Iecla (), MoDowail, and Tiber ( Gromblen’ Boston, Welieia, Kemano, and Potomac @y London, Philadelphia; James Jardiue, Roberts, Savan- nah. Loxpox, Sept 2—Arrived, Havelock, Sauvage, New. York; Peter Jobsen (#), Wulff, do (and ent out to "gear Fortland, Smith, Boston 84, Oarnarvonshire, javieas, ‘Entered’ ont 22, Nagata M, Mitchell, for Providence, Ri Ta 5 A se ' iano, “ug aoe salled, Paraindunty Wiswell, Rio Jax naira snot on the “AirWvede Julie A Hallock. Briggs, New" Sisisca, ‘Ang 29—Arrived, brig Kodiak, Downing, New ork. S—Sailed, Whittier, Swap, London, + feeenet An Tain gore ships Joseph Clark, Carvers: gamestaine Gail, N Boynton, Palmer, and Sagamoret Noxrurat, Bet 18—Cleared, bark Fanny McCarvell Bp), Watkin, Montevideo, 1 Nwrort, Aug 3i—Sailed, Kentuckian, Sears, New Ore ntered for ldg Sist, Kate Troop, Crocker, for St Tho¢ MNEwcastie, NSW, July 1$—Arrived, CL Taylor, Sears, Mauritin: Pexaurn, Aug #1—Sailed, Elsworth, Brush (or Woode ward), Rio Janciro; Star, Vianello, Callao. Srernbht Ay mrt tagterai ti Coated Nama, Ati 24—Arrived, steains worth, Ban Francisco; ist, Honduras, Searle, ‘Central sailed ‘sth, steamship Costa Rica, Howes, Central Ames Qunexstows, Sept S—Arrived, Nuova Virginia, Scarpatiy, New York. ' Quenec, Sept 13—Arrived, steamship Memphis (Br), Mis Ja diverpoal; ship Empress (Br), Mathewson, Kingkton, ja, for Mont it mA " lat 43 7 Bar W'ilYonkins (BE), Seely, from Troon for Phila. le! bruig (Bp) from Port Madoc for New Orleans, Aug Asie Vall from Philadelphia for Trinidad, Sept 01 he. 10, lat $7 10, lon 7208. Foreign Ports, Anrwrrr, Sept 1—Sailed, Vesuvius, Overlack, New cola. anes June 2—BSalled, Claymore, Dalziel, Wash- ap TH S+Arrived, schrs G W Pettis, Galle- in, "Aug Si, no lat, &e, a 135 orn Sagaa Ia Grande for Philadelphia, 3 dt Rope th Tat 2609, lon 79 48 YGitied from Flashing Roads A 9, Tornado, Undor. ahompenh, onnedy, Bi tory. WALL, Kaa itreal Cleared Wath, steamship Scandinavian (Br), Brown, Live! I. i Hancoos, July ®%-Railed, Montpelier, Dizer, London , 2th, J O Potter, MeClure, Falmouth ne. ' SYDNEY, ly Ib—arrived, Mary Nelson, Desbors Sarpedon (@), Ferguson, from Shanghae ‘raigforth (s), *cott, Y Shas Bi . Mee Donald, Goree and Bos Tenenirre, Aug 23—Arrived, Libera, Alexander, New BOSTON, Sept 4—Arrived, schrs CW Holt, Holt Atex! Suiecps, Sept 2~In port ship Majestic, Gibbons, for: Singapore, preparing to leave the 7; newton ‘Surz—Paseod through the Canal between Ang. 21 end Fore Le ad omd BeLovis Geneva), July 31—Sail B JAGUENAY, Sept 1li—Arrived, ship Importer, Anderson, Boston. York. > American Ports. andria: Whitney Long, Hayes, and John Bird, Sleeper, Philadelphia; farguret O Lyons, do. Below, brig Son? Cleaved—Steamships Mercedita, Marshman, New Or- Jeans; Homan, Boras, Philadelphia; barks Soll des Glories (NG), Wienandt, Balthmore; Duiveland (Br), Graves, da;. Sehrs J Hancock, Crowell, Charleston; Nellie © Paines aed Ship Anite: Bi brigs Liberty, and E Me- Ship Annie 4 Dries “ od and from the roads, bark Hatrict. uiArrived, steamatip Orlental, ‘Savannahs, ship- Melrose, Caloutin; barks Jiszle H. Jackson, Cronstadty Lincoln; New Orleans; brigs Magaguadavic, Liverpool; G Shaw, Turks Island; Constantine, Fortand H bark Western Sea, Surinam, BANGOR, eset 13—Arrived, bark Lawrence, Howes, Boston, to load for Palermo; brig Marshal Dutch, Tur- ner, Boston. CHARLESTON, Sept 12—Cleared, brig Mary E Pennell, O Mosely, Cranm, Beau- fe al Brunswirk, Ga; schr M t, BC. Toth—Arrived, schr Constitution, New York. Sailed—Steaniship Manhattan, Woodhull, New York. OILY POINT, Sept 12—Sailed, bark Don Justo, Bennett, Baltimore, FORTRESS MONROE, Sept 15—Arrived, brig Red Wing,. Snow, Rio Janeiro for Baltimore. In Hampton Koads—Bark Isaac Hull, from Pensacola for Montevideo, short of provisions: brigs Fred Fish, J Pierce, Ellen Marta, and Annie D Torry; schrs Georgs Thatolicr, LU Hedges, Saml Warren, Lawd Dieger, Addig M Hume, Eva, Vapor, Anna 8 Brown, Mattie E Taber,C Grove, Anna W W Pharo, ‘Geo W Miller, Katie J Hoyt, J E Willets, JB Myers, Henty T Wood, G H Ho J D Cramer, Miranda Crocker, Crisis, Enos & Phill T Bailey, Lina Breed, Mary G Farr, E A Bartic, @ © Mor- He, Rnedalla Blue, Mary & Summon. Cordelia Newkirk; EG Kn nua D, Laray, ie Malloy, Mary! md Annie 0 Everett, St’ Oroix. Youn '8 Tracy, Defiance, Fierron, DW Vaughan, Jessie Hoyt, Oceanicns, Jennie Rosaline, Royal Arch, 'Seventy-Six, Annie Lewis, E Kerson, Webster Barnard, Starlight, E Amsden, EB Wright, Anna Lyrns, Anna Cabal, M'E Woodhull; brig Chimborazo, and some 50 schrs, windbound. GARDINEK, Me, Sept9—Arrivea, schr Kate Mitchell, . Eastman, New York. Sailed—Schrs John Lee, Vangilder, and James L Maloy, Russell, Philadelphia; Harrp Percy, Percy, New York. pUALVESTON, Sept 8—Cleared, schr LL Davis, Smith, ensacola. GREENPORT, LI, Sept @~Arrived, brig Mary Thomp, son, Bunker, Bangor. NEW ORLEANS, Sept 10—Below, ship LL Sturgess; Linnekin, from Newport. Cleared—Suip Lily of the Vailey (Br), Leitch, Ruatan; sehr Gen Prim, Brown, Laguna. NEW BrDKOKD, Sept 18—Arrived, schr John H Perry, ladelphia. schrs Howard, Kendall, New York; Na- 3, Saunders, ind Kate Thomas, Barlow, cK, Christie, Georgetown, DC. ept 5—Arrived, bark Zillah (Br). Ev+ ans, Callao. ‘Sailed—Bark WH Gawley, McGuire, San Francisco. PASS GAVALLO, Sept 5—Arrived, schr Carrie, Bearce, jew York. Sailod Sth, schra Potosi, Jackson, Tampice; Harry Teo, Mayo, and Franklin, Clark, Pensacola Kate Bucbanany Collings, sehrs Atthe bar 7th, schr Linda, ready for sea. PENSACOLA, Sept —Arnved, brig Kremlin, Wyman,. Whelden, Bosto: brigs Alpha (Br), Burke, Cardenas. Edith, Almeida, Matanzas i Nagoe, Barret } , Boston; n Norwich; K W liuddel!, Maloy. Gloucester; phrai re Anna, Hewitt, Rockport, ter, Harding, Wilmington, Brown, Providence; bark Oreste (Ital), Chirico, Feliatts brig Aoby © Titcomb, Hall, , Sept. 4—Ship Jorephine Oulton and bark Abra- ing went to sea this morning. Most of the larger ham Yi ‘vessels, A. Pascagoula; 7th, Gen Grant, Hawes, do. Galveston. PHILADELPHIA, Sept 14—Arrived, steamship. Arlen, AD Huddell, L RR Noa, ‘Cledred—Steamships Norman, Nickerson, Boston; Hun- Barbados; schr Aunié May, Simpson, East Cuinbridge. lying outside the harbor went to rea yesterday 5 aay schrs are beating out jodty bit square- riggers genérally remain quiet. Brig Ellén » Stewart: went (osea yesterday, PORTLAND, Sept 13—Arrived, brig Nigreta, McCaul- der, Philadelphia; schrs Abbie, Cleaves, do; Ida L How- ard, Harrington; Mannie Westbrook, 'Litttejohn, and Ciutven, Upton, New York; Charter Oak, Poole, Saco, to ww York. “Gleured—Lrig Merriwa, Downs, Cardenas: schrs Fred. ‘ashington, DC; PL Sinith, Upton, and , Webber, New Yor! RICHMOND! Sept S-Arrived, sche © T Herrick, Par- Ne a bi Red —Senry i PComegvs, Hubbard, New York via lower James; John MeGinnlss, Phillips, Stamford, Ot, Fea ctees nis ey Bell ora Hones Br), Rice, Newport} fate stinagellny ‘teajatin ‘puend Vista, Black, Kodjak; faze lle auer, Cor be Cleared ship: Prina. Donia, Lunt, Liverpool; barks seo) Bama ¢ jaw), Jenks, Honolulu; schr Energy, Hol- fer, Kodiah. Railed—Steamship Sacramento, Connolly. Panama;. ship Oneida, MeGilvery, Liverpool; barks Scotland, Wi ley, Port Blakely ; Geni ‘Cobb, Delany, Seabeck ; Eureka, Knacke, Puget Sound ; bi ‘olos, Williams, Humpolds} ; Timandéa, Do Wolf lands. Ms ‘LEM, Sept 18—Arrived, brig J Leighton, Leighton, Cherryfield for New York; achrs Cayeniic, Keeney Cay: onner Canary, Hart, PortJohnson; Forest city, Davie, d Elizabeth, Hodgdon, Rondout, bt treet lel ai at “APsoLuTE DIVORCES LEGALLY OBTAINED FRO} different States; legal everywhere; desertion, &c, SuMicient cau: ‘anti divorce granted, ; nO pubhetty required; no charge advice free, OUSE, Counsellor, &¢., 190 Broadway. A HERALD BRANCH OFFIC BROOKLYN, + corner of Fulton avenu win stree! _Open from 8 A, M. to8 P.M, ¢ ALTOGETHER THE CHEAPEST PLACE FO! Gas Fixtures, Chandeliers, & M. Come to hei McLEWEE & PUTNA\ intervention of gasfiters. HOUSEHOLD WORD.=BUY YOUR CHINA, GLASS A, Shier aiterzar Ciek are” vate st Vary Mind ne BB, WABBPORD? every kind at E. 8, Cooper Institut y ORCES LEGALLY OBTAINED FROM re oat i ge Prat, Aaa ete TO KING, “Sounsellor-at-Law, $60 1 ond Wny. ICHAU'S GOLDEN REMEDIES; WARRANTED B, Riare when all other treatment fails any case of rivate disease, evopiile, sorotala, ‘heamati: sey Rey DAL to erent he noe ge hours trom OFM eo RINM ARNG Se Verick stroet, Now York.