The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1874, Page 4

4 THE GENERA 0? THE ARMY Power of the Commander-in-Chicf and Secretary of War. —_—-—_——_ The Trouble in Our Military Establishment. PRESIDENT’S POLICY. THE How the Headquarters Came To Be Re- moved to St. Louis. | during the pleasure oi the President, to commana | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 18 the seven great departments, and to the Secre- | ] GENERAL MILES’ EXPEDITION, | between the army, through the Genoral-in-Chief, and the President.” These were the views ol Gen- erol Grant when occupying the position now held and it seems Secretary Stanton by Sherman, | pnt ae Myer him taat he fully approved of is Views as expressed in this letter, At that time the subject Was much discussed, and soon aller Congress cnacied the bill reviving the grade of ned and general, and provided that when commiss he “may be authorized, under the directio! the armies of the United States.” Prior to this time General Grant did not hesitate to make orders to all parts of the army, Academy and staif, and tt was under his advice that the new regulations were compiled in 1568 that | drew the line more clearly between the duties of the Secretary of War und the Commanding Gen- | eral. Sherman states that Grant assured him many | a time, betore being called to succeed bim, that he wanted tim fo perfect the distinction, aud that tt | was by GranUs express orders that Sherman, on assuming command of the army, specifically paced the heads of staff corps tn Wasbiugton in the exact relation to the army which they would bear to an | army in the field, e of THE PLAST A OF PRESIDENT GRANT, onentering upon the duties of Chict Magistrate, | was to appoint Sherman his successor, The orders issued on che occasion were all that the General- | in-Chict could expect, had they been adlivred to, | The: | lows» It bas been already announced tn the Heraup that the Headquarters o. the Army have, by re- quest of General Sherman and with the approval of the President, beea removed from Washingron to St, Louis, The causes that led to this transfer have aiso been briefly alluded to; but iu a matter of so much importance it must be a subject of deep interest to the people at large to leara more in de- tall the circumstances that have mduced the Gen- eral-in-Ohief to retire from a locality which cir- | cumstances to be stated made to him most irk- some. It may be briefly stated that the Secretary of War took almost the entire management of the discipline and police of the military establishment Into his own hands, with the approval of the Prest- dent, withont which it could not have been done, | the President being Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, and invested by acts of Congress | with discretionary power as to the duties to ne | assigned to the Commanding General. General Sherman, baving nothing to do in Washington, felt a natural annoyance, and concluded to establish his headquarters in St. Louis, The command of the army is now virvually 1m the Lands of the Sec- | retary of War. THE WAR DEPARTMENT was established by act of Congress, approved Au- gust 7, 1759. It provided that there should be a prinetpal oMcer therein, to be cailed the Secretary for the Department of War, who should perform | and execute such duties as should be, from time to time, enjoined on or intrusted to him by the President, agreeable to the constitution relative | to military commission or to the land or naval forces, ships or warlike stores of the United States, or to such other matters respecting mili- lacy Or naval affairs as the President should | assign tosaid department. The Navy Department | was created in 1798, and a secretary provided for in the same manner as for tha! of the military es- tablishment. It will be thus seen that the Presi- | dent bas supreme authority in desivnating the duties to be discharged by the head of each de- partment, and ary diminution of the euthority | once established by regulations of either could | have force by his official approval. | SCOTT IN HOT WATER, A few years after Scott became Commander | General of the Army the war with Mexico broke out, and that faithiul old soldier was ordered to Vera Cruz, and from thence he led the American army triumphantly to toe capital of the Republic, | Scott was not a favorite with many of the leading democratic statesmen of the South, ana moreover he placed under arrest Generals Worth and Pil | Jow and Colonel Duncan while in active service in | the feid. He was recailed after capturing the | City of Mexico, and General William 0. Butier Was place in command of the Army of Occupation. acourt of inquiry, consisting of Generals Tow- | son, Belknap and Cale) Cushing, was ordered to | investigate the matter. but it ended in nothing. Meantime Scott’s enemies were not idie, and the | victorious Generai himself exhibited anything but @n amicable disposition toward them. President Polk aud Mr. Marcy—who was then Secretary of War—were more or less influenced against Scott, andon his return to the United States, for rea- s0n8 that have never been fully disclosed to the public, he was kept with his headquarters in New | York. It is stuted in his autobiography that it | was at his own instance, in compliment to General Taylor, then the nominee of the Whig party for the Presidency, that he was assigned to the Eastern | Department, and that tLe Western Department, with headquarters at New Orleans, was given to | the other Major General, Taylor, as in the time of the two Major Generals, Brown aud Jackson, in 1815, Who continued down to 1821 commanding the | divisions of the North and South respectively. | But the General Orders (August, 1548) issued on | the occasion, by direction of President Polk, | through Secretary Marcy, make no allusion to the wishes of Scott on the assignments of himself and Taylor to the Eastern and Western Departments, uey simply announce that the resident has seemed proper that the fermer should establish bu headquarters at or in the vicinity of New York, SCOTT DEPRIVED OF COMMAND-IN-CHIEF. ‘The President further ordered that to tne duties | devolving upon the commanders of divisions by | the geueral regulations of the army were added the duties enjoined upon the Commanding General Of the Aroy, so far ag the same were to be found apple: and all other Junctions pertaining to | the General (ommanding-in-Chief under army reg- | Ulations, Wun the lke limits, were also to be exercised by (ne two Major Generals within their | respective divisions, This order clearly stripped | Scott of the position he occupied beiore the war, | as it made Tayivr entirely independent of him and | his equal in all te-peets. On the inauguration of | General Taylor a resident of the United States, thongh again assuming the command of the whole army, Scovt continued his headquarters at New | York, not being culled yo Washington, in conse- | ble quence, as stated in nis autobiography, of the | personal hostility of the chief magistrate; but on the succession of Fillmore, im 1850, the head- | quarters of the Gener the seat of government, « the accession of Presiden General again says, they w: back toNew York, Here they remained down to | bis retirement from active se in 1861, though } his last ten months on duty were «pent in Wash- | ington consulting with the government as to the | most efficacious means to avert, in the Girst place, | and alterward to suppress the civ. war, AUTHORITY OF COMMANDING (oNERALS. There cau be no doubt that up to:ne time ¢ shat Scott fei into disrepute with Polk's administra- | tion the Commanding General did actually control | the army, and that the Secretary of War never | Was authorized by the President or attenpted to | exercise the entire power of governing \\ that has | been since generally assumed by that Cabinet | Minister. Even in May, 1549, @ year after scott's | return trom Mexico, @ general order was issued by the President restoring him to the command of tue army ‘and the duties in all that regards its Giscipline and military control, according two the PeLlations prescribed for thé guidance of the | General Commanding-in-Oniel.” Regulations been iramed in is47, as stated belore, defini | these duties, which gave to that officer the moat ample powers in the matter of changing the sta. 1ohs of regiments and companies, ordering courts. \ martial, ordering officers to duty, &c., without the necessity of consuiting the Secretary of War. The fact of the successful eforts of Scott's opponents tending to lessen his authority had not the effect of removing the Adjutant General entirely irom onder bis control, for General Roger Jones tre- quently made reports to the Lieutenant Generai, as tis Chief, respecting recruiting, discipline and Lead Subjects that came under the control of lis © Me Chief were removed to | | there continued until Pierce, when, as the once more removed GRANT IN WASHINGTON, Matters were in this condition when General Grant revurned to Washington in i860. He jost no time in writing to Secretary Stanton, stating that while in the field his fnctions were never im. paired, but were lactiitated in all essential mate ters by the administration and the War Depart. ment. Now, however, he said, that the war js over, “L have brough% my headquarters to this city; {find my present position embarrassing aud, 1 think, out of piace, Ina iew words | will state what I conceive to be my duties and my piace aud ask respectiuily to be restored to them and it, | THE ENTIRE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE should be under the entire control of the General- tn-Ohief of the Army, No orders shouid go to tne army or the Adjutant General except througn tne General-in-Chief, Such as require the action of tue President should be laid beiore the Secretary of War, whose action would be regarded as that of the President. in short, in my opinion, the General-in-Uniot aiands between the President and the army in all ciliviad matters. and the Secretary ol War is be- | | funds | of military reg are dated Marca 5, 1869, anda read as fol- By command of the President General William 7 Sherman will assume coiumaad of the Ariny of nited states. ‘The chiefs of staff, corps, departin and bureaus will report to and act under the imme orders of the General commanding the army. All ¢ which by Law of regulation reguiring the acuon esideut or Secretary of War wili bo sulmived ner@l of the Army to the Secretary o! War and. . orth Iieeneval ails riers fromthe President or Secr War to any portion of the army, line or staf ¥ transmitted through the General of the Army. WHO COMMANDS THE ARMY f But a Short time elapsed when the duties set forth in the preceding order were enurely changed as, it i8 sald, to please the late Secretary Rawiins. | General Shermans was reduced almost to a cipner. The only authortty left in his hands was to sanc- | tion the transfer of oMces and the graviing of leaves Of absence, Atiength, in August, 1870, he called attention to the subject, as General Grant had done jour years before, He remarked in a let- ter of that date to Secretary Belknap that ‘so | long as this is the case I surely do not commend the army of the Untied States.” In a very recent letter Genera! Sherman remarks :—‘*With us to-day | the law and regulations are, that no matter what may be the emergency, the commanding general in Texas, New Mexico and the remote frontiers cannot draw trom the arsenals a pistol, cartridge, or any sort of ordnance stores without first pro- curing an order from the Secretary Wasnington, ‘Tne commanding general, though entrusted with the lives of his soldiers and with the safety of a frontier in a condition of chronic war, cannot touch or be trusted with ordnance stores or property, and that is declared to be the law.” Aglance at the powers exercised by gen- erals-in-chie! in past times will show what a radi- cal change has been effected. POWERS OF THE COMMANDING GENERAL. By the army regulations of 1347 the military estab: Ushment was placed under the orders of the Com- mander-in-Chtef in all that regarded its discipline and military control; its penul arrangements were to belong to the administrative department of the stat. The General of the Army was to watch over the economy of the service in all that relates to the expenditure of money, supply of arms, clothing, equipments, medical and hospital stores, barracks, quarters, transportation, military acad- emy, pay and subsistence, im short everything waich enters into the expenses of the military establishment, whether personal or national. He wiil also see that the estimates for the military service are based on proper data and made for the opjects contemplated by law and necessary to the support and useful employment of the army. Prior to 1847 the duties of | the commanding general were that he should dispose of the military force in such manner as to give protection to the maritime frontier and to the interior border. He is to superintend the re- cruiving service; the discipiine and police of the | army; order courts-martlal and give decisions on all cases except when the lie of an oficer or a soldier is affected, or the commission of an oficer. | It is his province to see that the laws and regula- tions governing the army are enforced, and that justice is done to all concerned. In his duties he 18 assisted by the Adjutant General, through | Whose office all orders are issued to the army, and the returns of its strength made, as well as the general mili’ tay correspondence as to the details of tne service. e commanding General 1s also as- sisted by inspector generals, who, under his or- ders, will inspect the condition of the regiments, corps and posts, and inquire minutely into every subject relative to the wellare of the army, and recommend such Improvements as May add tothe comfort of the oificers and men. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. In all military establishments the adjutant gen- era’s office is under the control of the General Commanding-in-Chief. It ts always with the head- quarters Of the army, and througn it, py authority of the commanding General, ali orders should go to the army. But under the régime that has ex- isted .or some time in Washington the Secretary of War has taken entire contro! oi the office, and | rules the army Imdependent of any other oilicer save the President. In arecentreport of the Ad- juiant General there is given astatement of the | operations of his office, which, it will be observed, takes in the direction o/ the entire economy of the Military establishment, Besides the authority ex- ercised by the Secretary and mentioned else- where, detachments are assigned and forwarded from depots to regiments, stations are changed, recruiting superintended, leaves of absence granted, measures taken for the apprehension and | trial of deserters, miscellaneous correspondence with general and staf officers concerning accounts and carried on and with officers retarns, drawn from the ‘Treasury, books tion and instructions and biank forms lor muster roils, showing the strength of companies and regiments, and the military his- tory of each soldier distributed; inquiries from accounting, pension and pay olfices answered; courts-martial ordered; applications jor dige charge Ol iminors examined and supervision exer- cised over mililtary prisoners wherever confued, Of all these various functions, according to Lhe regulations of 1847, the latter only properly be- long to the War Department. The Secretary, however, hus highly important duties to discharge in communicating with Congress on all subjects relating to tue army, in directing the surveys of Tajlroads and military roads and of river aud har- bor improvements, and im approving contracts, — Congress coniers authority on him iroin time to tame relating to matters Of a non-military char- | acter, and these, taken in connection with his duties as a constitutional adviser of tle President, aifurd ampie occupation for his abiliaes, HOW THE MATTER STANDS. Asthe matter stands at present General Sher- Man has oo duties to periorm at Wasbington, If ue had he would remain at the capital. He nas no authority hor js his position recognized in the government Oo! the army. Orders go from the Sec- retary of War of which General Sherman is en- tirely ignorant. In fact, it would be ditiicult to imagine # more annoying position to aman of General Sierman’s knowo ability, character and independence than the one he has occupied in the War Department. Uf course, the Secretary of War could not assume the authority he does nor ignore so completely the existence of the General Without the sanction of the President, such duties as he thinks proper; and it would jurther seem that the act of July 25, 1866, reviving the grade o: general, and which comers on that officer the rigut, “during the pleasure o1 the Presi- dent, to command the armies of the United States,” i8 not much regarded by the Execuuve. ARMY ADMINISTRATION, General Sherman in a recent article published in | the Army and Navy Journal relers to a message made in the French Assembly by Marshal Mac- Mahon, in which he submitted @ project of law with a report prepared by a board of generals on army administration. He thinks the suggestions of the President of the French Republic are as ap- plicable to us a3 to the Freuch. Ihe separation of the administration and conimand, each indepen- dent of the other, which paralyzed both and an- nulled the dualism, was condemned. cided by the Board that this error should be “‘pro- scribed” in the pew military system. The report then goes on at great length discussing the pro- visious of the “new law,” which is described to be | a radical chauge from the oid one on the same suyject. While conceding to the Minister of War in Paris the general control and supervisioa of the entire muitary estaolishment, primarily, espe- cially of the esumaies, or budget, and the great depots of supply, it distributes to the commanders oj the corps d’armée in time of peace, and to all army commanders generaily in time of war, the abso.ute command of the mouey, provisions and stores, with the necessary staff oilicers to receive, issue and account for them. The object of the law ja to conler on the commander Of troops Whatever LIBERTY OF ACTION the case gemands, He has the power even to go beyond the regulations in circumstances oi urgency and pressing necessity. The extraordi- nary measures he may take on these occasions may require their execution Without delay. officer has but one duty before obeying, and that is to submit bis Observations to the General and to ask his orders in writing. With this Jormality his esponsibility ceases, and the responsipility jor the - ctraordinary act falis solely on tne General who ves the order. th suppiies are placed under the orders of tae eral i command of the troops—that is, they ® - obliged, both ia War and peace, to obey with ‘ <dngie qualification above named, Of first mak- ing neir observations aud securing the written orde: the ease demands, General Sherman re- mark that the French report .s well worthy the stady |; our army oficers 01 all grades and classes, and tcehes upon the question of military corre- sponde:.e, which has been taken entirely out of his hans ‘by she Secretary of War. geonerais tonsider Whether the staff officer should correspo directly wita his chie: in Waris, sub- mitting t 14 General copies, or whether he should be require °» carry on bis correspondence through dis Genera wo that the latter could promptiy lor- ward the c anication indorsed with his own remarks ab \.oinions. The latter is declared by board to « he omly safe rule, because “she General shoul j\ever be ignorant of anything that is tranepiring hat concerns his command.” General Sheri \siso remarks that In this coun- try, a8 in France, Congress controls the great questions Ol War anv! peace, makes ali Jaws for tue Creation and governvcent of armies, and votes the necessary suppites, leaving to the President to execute and sols these laws, and especially the harder task of luuiting the expenditure of pablic money to the amoun' 9! the annual appropriation. ‘The executive vower \s further suvdivided into \ the Military of War in | claims eXamined and reported upon, | It was de- | ‘The stam The officers and agents charged | The Frenca | tary of War is contided the general care of: the military establishinent, and bis powers are further subdivided into ten distinct and separate bureaus. | ‘The chiess of these bureaus are under the unme- | diate orders of tue Secretary of War, who, through | tuem, im fac | COMMANDS THE ARMY FROM IIS OFFICE, but canuot do 80 in the fleld—an absurdity in | military, t net evil, law. The Geuera! oe the | Army udes the followmg pointed subordinates of these Staff corps ap’ uepariinents ave selected and chosen from *%e army itselt or fresh from West Point, and tv0 commoniy construe themselves into the élite, as made of better clay than the common soldier, ‘thus they separare | themselves more and more from thetr comrades of the ne, and in process of time realize the condl- tien of that old officer of artillery who thought ine | army would be a detightful place for a gentiewan if it were not for the damned soldier; or, better | } wor'’s:—"The still te conciusion of the young lord in’ ‘Henry 1V., who told Harry Percy (Hotspur) ‘that but .or these vile guns he himseif would have been a soldier.’ This is all wrong, utterly at variance with our democratic form of government and of | universal experience: and now that the French— from whom we had copied the system—have ut- | terly ‘proscribed’ it, I hope that our Congress will follow suit. Ladmit in its fullest force the | streng'h of the maxtm that the civil law should be superior to the military in time 0! peace; that the army should be at all times subject to the diect control of Congress, and L assert that, trom the formation Of our government to the present day, the regtlararmy has set the highest example ot obedience to law and authority; but for the very reasou that our army 18 comparatively so very smali I hold that it should be the best pos- sible, organized and governed on true military principles, and that in time of peace we should preserve the ‘habits and usages of war,’ so that | When war does come we may not again be com- | pelled to suffer the disgrace, coniusion and dis- | | order of 1861.7" | | APPLICATION FOR REMOVAL OF HEADQUARTERS. | | General Sherman’s appiication to the War De- partment to remove bis headquarters to St. Louis was made in May last, and the Secretary promptiy | assented, With tne approval of President Grant. | | Nevertheiess it woul be hard to say why the War OfMice should be at Washington and the headquar- | | ters of the Commanding General at St. Louis. It | seems very difficult that they should act apart | without introducing confusion into the service, ana if they are to act together in an emergency— | and it 1s only in an emergency that their a tion is | of vital mmbient tea should be so situated as to act together, The telegraph, however, will make | | the two cities near enough. In reierence to the | authority of the Secretary of War the United | | States Supreme Court has held that although it | may be true that “he does not compose a part of | | the army, and has no duties to perform in the | held,” and that he 1s a civil officer and all | his duties are ctvii duties, yet he is “the | regular constitutional organ of the President lor the military establishment of the nation, and rules / and orders promuigated through him must be | received as acts oi the Executive, and as such be binding upon all within the sphere of his legal and constitutional authority.’ It follows, therefore, “that so long as the President and the Secretary of War are in accord with each other the powers of the latter, with reference to the army, find their only limitation in the constitutional boundaries to the authority of the Chief Executive.” From all this It appears evident that President Grant pre- ters his secretary, General Belknap, who ts a@ sol- dier and the son of an honored soldier, to rule the army than the officer who, by law, regulations and universal custom, is the rightful person to perform the duty. THE STAFF LEAVES FOR ST. LOUIS. The following named officers, composing the star of the General of the Army, proceed immediately | trom Washington fo St. Louis :— Colonel William D, Whipple, Ald-de-Camp and Assistant Adjutant General. colonel J. C. McCoy, Fourth artillery, Aid-de- Camp. Colonel J. C. Audenreid, Sixth cavalry, Aid-de- amp. Colonel John E, Fourtellotte, Seventh cavalry, Aid-de-Camp. Colonel J. M. Bacon, Ninth cavairy, Aid-de-Camp. Colonel Orlando M. Poe, Corps of Enginee: Aid-de-Camp, 1s to remain in Washington, and all | maps, reports of reconnoisances and of ail explora- tions are to be packed, marked and transierred under his superintendance to thi lartermaster’s | Department tor transportation to St. Louis, The cierks and orderlies, seven in number, also proceed to the new headquarters, A FIRE AT GREENPOINT. Great Destruction of Property in the Eastern District of Brooklyn—Esti- | mated Losses a Quarter of a Million of Dollars. Yesterday morning, as early as two o'clock, a fire was discovered in @ stable owned by James McKenzie, situated on Freeman street, Green. | point, in the Bastern District of Brooklyn. The | neighborhood of this buildmg 1s surrounded by @ nest of tinder-box structures that | for @ long time had been the terror of the | neighborhood. The fire spread with alarming rapidity, aud before it was completely sub- | dued about thirty dwellings and business | establishments were burned to the ground, in- volving a loss of nearly $250,000. The fire was discovered by Officer Shannon, and very speedily | the engines from India street and Greenpoint | avenue were on the spot. A southwesterly wind, | however, sprung up and it was seeu that the lire Wasrapidly spreading. Sergeant Debevuise teie- graphed to rhe Eastern District headquarters for turee additional fire engines. These, however, on their arrival, Were unaviec to Keep the fire in check, | aud the s were rapidly spreading to the houses in Green and Church streets and to Beeve’s jactory. All the premises in this part of the neighbornood had to be given up to the jury of the flames. Tois obliged avout thirty-iour Jamilies living in tenement houses to abandon | their homes, ‘Two box lactories and two maciune | shops Were also destroyed. Three more engines were telegraphed Jor, and by tne united efforts of | the firemen the destructive element was pre- vented irom doing any very great amount of additional damage. The car stavles of the | Brooklyn City Railroad were at one time threat- | ened, but escaped with only $100 damage to the ) Diacksmith’s shop. THE ESTIMATED LOSSES, E. C. Smitn sustained the heaviest loss, his box factory on Fieeman street, with the stock, valued Ai $60,000, being destroyed. He 1s msured tor | The factory of Church & Reeves, on Green | street, with the stock, all valued at $35,000, are a complete loss, with tue exception o1 tbe fireproof building containing the boilers, The iactory and stock are insured tor $25,000. | H. J. Lewis’ tour three-story brick buildings in Freeman street, occupied as factories of diferent | kinds, are also completely destroyed, Lis loss be- Ing $25,000, on which there is an insurance of | $11,500,’ J. Hayes, a tenant, who used part of one | 0: the buildings as a machine shop, loses on stock | $12,000; insured for $6,000. Mr. J. Dore, cabinet | maker, also a tenant, loses $9,000, there being no | insurance, and J. W. Booth, a wood turner, loses | who by law has the power of entrusting him with | $800 worth of tools, &c. | Nos. 119 and 121 Freeman street, two brick | pundings, owned and used partiy by Mr. Hugo Herr, woud turner, are burned down; his Joss on | buildings, Machinery and stock is estimated at $21,000, While he is only insured tor $6,000, Car- | man Pazell, stereoscope manuiacturer, occapymg the third floor of the buildings, sustains a loss on stock of $7,000; insured for $2,000. A, Storer, model maker, aiso an Occupant of the premises, | loses $1,000; no insurance. Jones & Eddy, sash and blind makers, occupying frame buiiding No. 123 Freeman street, owned by James Hines, loses $10,000; insured lor $5,000, Mr. Hines’ loss on the building is about $4,000, All the sashes, windows, &c., to be used in tue con- struction of the Thirteenth Kegiment armory were being Manulactured at this place and were | all cousumed. Mr. Hunt, an occupant, loses $1,000 | on picture Irames, and Mr. Kokholz, furniture | manufacturer, loses $700, No insurance in either c ase. in addition to the factories consumed, as above | given, fourteen private dwellings were also de- | suroyed. William Penny's three two story irame | houses, Nos, 135, 157 and 139 Freeman street, val- ued at $9,000, are a total loss; insured for $4,500. No. 133 Freeman street, a two story frame stable, | occupied by J. G. Hayes, is a total loss; no insur- ance, The two story Irame buliding No, 141 rree- mau street, owned by Segeman & Herr, is a total loss; it is vaiued at $2,000 and ts insured ior $1,500, No. 143 Freeman street, owned by Jacob Herbold, @ three story frame, is destroyed; lu: $6,000; msured for $4,000, William Eastt tenant in the latter, loses all nis furnitur sured for $500. No. 145 Freeman street, a | Story frame, owned by B. Biomendorit; $5,000; imsured for $2,500. No. 117, by John Morrissy, driver of No, gine, is @ total loss; damage $2,000; partly | Insured. No, 115, owned by John H. Kicholz, & three story srame house, is damaged about $200; insured lor $2,000; be aiso losing $000 in jurpiture. Mr, Husted's residence, on Green street, adjoin. ing church and Reeves’ factory, a t.ree suory srame house, is datiaged to the atmount of $2,000; luily insured, Un his stable and woodhuuse, whica | are @ totai loss, there 18 no insurance, | Six horses occupying the stabie where the fire | Originated Were destroyed, as was also the bulid+ ing. The latter is owned by Mr. dickKeuzie, and .s worth aoout $200. Two of the horses | need to William Field, oyster truckman; one to Jones & Eddy, one to Mr. Taylor, acarman, and the re- maiider to Mr. H. J. Lewis, aiready reierred to. Mr. Taylor aiso sustains @ joss of $5,000 on his irame house, No. 148 Freeman street, which was | destroyed, as also Mrs. Morgan, Owner of No. 146 Freeman street, a two story irame, a loss of $4,000; partially insured, | One nundred and fifty dollars in money, belong- ing Wo John Suyser, & tenant in one ol vue houses destroyed, Was consumed, a8 Was also $140 be | longing to Mr, Lippard, @ resident of No, 141 F man street, who, besides, was seriously burued anout the face aud hands trying to save bis prop: | erty. CASUALTIES, Morris Howard, a dreman attached to Engine | Company No. 15, Was budly burned about Lie head, and Engineer Smith had his face biistered on one side. Messrs. Church & Reeves this morning con- tracted with J, B, Woodrut, mason. for tne re- | erection of their factory, aud the work i to be | | commenced at once loss owned 15 en- | estimated at irom 300 to 400, and they were well Progress of the Operations Against the Indians. ENCOUNTERS WITH THE SAVAGES. Character and Position of the Hostile Bands. Camp on Wasnrra Riv Texas, Sept. 17, 1874. We left Galt Fort on the 10th inst. (the infantry and artillery remaining about five miles northeast of our last camping ground), pushed forward again and reached Whivepost Creek on the evening of the same day, On the 11th we reached McLellan Creek, where we rejoined the cavairy, which had de- parted from Mulberry Creek ahead of us, to en- deavor and reach the train and hasten its arrival, and Jouni that our command was one man less than betore, occasioned by the loss of a private ot Company M, Sixth cavalry, named | Pettijohn. This man and the first sergeant of the company had been looking tor some hunters and were jumped by a large party of Indians, wh» succeeded in Killing the private and capturing the horse, equipments and arms, the sergeant escaping, The poor soldier was shot through the arm and leg and had a lance thrust through the heart. He had evidently been hastily scalped, although thoroughly, the scalp being torn from the right and partially over to the up side, including the scalp lock, which is, as is now pretty generaily known, the lock covering the crown of the head and covers a diameter of about aninch. From McLellan Creek, on the 12th, Gen- eral Miles, with the cavalry, moved forward to ascertain the cause of THE DETENTION OF THE TRAIN with supplies, it having been on the programme that it should have been at Antelope Hiils, on the Canadian, on the 10th inst., and pushed rapidly forward until reaching this point, where the train was. Here the cavalry, &c., halted, and supplies were immediately forwarded to the command in the rear with the portion of the train left behind to tollow up the General and the cavairy and the detachment still farther away in the vicinity of the Salt Fork of Red River. These supplies were much needed, although no actual necessity for 1ood was experienced. At the present writing the valleys of the Sweet- water, Wasbita and McLellan Creek are occupied by the troops, and I understand that trom the Canadian to McLellan Creek wiil be guarded by the forces and held trom the Indians until suf- ficient preparations are perfected for the transe portation or the establishment of convenient bases of supplies, to enable the command to attack and {oilow the savages wherever ti be iound. Meanwhile the command ts recuper- ating and retitting, and I am convinced that, from the thorough manner in which these preparations are made, the Indians will jong have cause to re- member the expedition which will probably re- enter the country now occupied by them, and their ultimate subjugation is how merely a ques- tion of time, ATTACKS BY THE INDIANS. Lieutenant F, D, Baldwin, Filth infantry, who left Battle (or Mulberry) Creek on the 6th inst. wi'b important despatches to headquarters and the mail, with three scouts ag escort, nad numer- ous engagements with the Indians, at times being entirely surrounded by them, and having to get out vi et armis, this occurring several times in one day, and when finally the superior mettle of the horses rendered 1t impracticable for the In- dians to again surround the pursued a running fight was organized, and about filteen braves undertook the chase, in which half their numper were Worsted, being either killed or wounded, and this gave the remainder a distaste for any further intimacy with the Lieutenant's little torce. During the further progress of this party on the road to camp Supply Indians were 1ound nearly every day, and on one occasion one was captured whio was On outpost, he not having tiie to retreat to the main body of indians, aud evidently preferring to run bis chan of capture than the gauntiet of shots that Would have been his portion on an attempt to escape. ‘he party arrived at camp Supply salely. : Company |, Fifth infantry, acting as escort to ‘he wagon train, en route to meet the command, Was attacked by the Indians on the 9th inst., the train corralled and an animated fight maimtained for three Gays, during Which time the imiantry made breastworks (the Indians emulating them), and a duel of rifle practice was had between tne Opposing lorces. The number of the Indians 1s armed and supplied with abundance of ammu- | nition, which they used with such e@ifect as to badiy wound First Lieutenant G, Lewis, Futh in- fantry, mortaily wound Assistant Wagon Master Sanford, kill Sergeant De Armand (Company I, Futh miantry), aud wound a private o! Com: pany I, Filth iniantry, and a serreant of Company A, Sixth caval ihe number of TH KILLED AND WOUNDED of the Indians can only be estimated, and that from no accurate data; Sufiice it to say that there Were good marksmen in Compauy 1, and tue ac- tiok Was at very suort range; cousequently there is great probability of there being mourning in many wigwams as a result of the tight. The Jn- diaus withdrew on the 12th, taking a southwest- erly course, Oa tne 12th Major Price’s command (part of the Eighth cavalry) was aiso attacked by the Indians, irom which attack they snortiy witharew in dis- gust at the pert.nacity of the soldiers and the im- | practicability of making any successiul attempt to demoralize the troops. Another episode, although involving no shedding oO! human gore, Was one Of intense discomiort tu | the survivors, aud happened in this wise:—Three Scouts were sent out by General Miles, about the iult., with a despatch ior Major Price, who Was expected to arrive at Adobe Wails about that date, Th men, some littie time since, re+ turned to this camp from their intended tour, their horses dead irom tatigue and lack oi sus- tenance and themselves not in a state of plethora, It must, however, have aiforded them soine satis- faction to find Major Price at tuis camp and to tiiluk that they had succeeded im Gading him aiter 80 protracted a search. Ip my iast letter Leonjectured that the Indians had changed their position unul they were between the command ind Camp Supply, and the expert ence of tae command Would justi this supposi- tion, Anotier surmise, however, 1s taal te sev- eral bands of Indians encountered were those who have recentiy been depredating arouad the Wasn- ita Agency, aud that they fell in with our column . while making tier way to the Staked P Whichever conjecture may be correct, o! one thing the people may be assured, that in spite et all the digicuities encountered by the troo, toe large amount oO! sultering they have endured—chiefly oc d vy an tusuficienc superabundance of water—the soldiers hav the iniest extent inculcated a wholesome tear into the Indi#ns, [roma Which the best results may be anticipated, OUR INDIAN POPULATION, The Numbers and Tribes, from OMcial Data—The Census by Twigs.—Interest- ing Stutistics of Hostile and Friendly Indians. OMATIA, Sept. 24, 1874, Little is known by the general public of the amount of our Indian population. J send you re- liable data upon the subject, gathered from official sources, Of course no Indian census can be per- fectly reliable. The strength of tribes is generally computed by the number of their lodges or wig- Wams, and six sou's are allowed to every loage, The number of warriors, or fighting men, to a trive is usually compuced at one to every lodge, though in some bands the proportion 18 greater, rising, in exceptional instances, to an average of two anda half warriors to a lodge, The general rute is to count one warrior lor every six Indians—men, women and ciildren, Where the census 1s. tuken at some agencies, by famiites or individuals, the number present is counted, and the absentees are accounted for by the head of each family bringing tothe agenta bundie of twigs, each twig repre senting an absentee. Where annuities in money or | presents are given it is the interest of the head o! each family to make It large vw increase his pro- portion of receipts, and thus the census by twigs 13 nota reliable one. Wast of the Rocky Mouutains there is an Indian population of 135, OL these 17,973 are tu Nebraska and Dakota Territory, as follows:— NUMBERS OF THE TRIDES, Winnebagoes, 1,514; Omanas, 1,002; Otoes and Missoarias, 417; Pawnees, 2,531; Santee Sioux, 1,304; Sacs And Foxes, of Missourl, 62; lowas, 240; | bro nd Ogailula Sioux, 7,535; Cheyennes, 1,800; Arapahoes, 760, Of these the Brulé and Ogallala Sioux, and the | Oheyennes and Arapahoes are hogule, They in- habit the country north of Nebraska and from the Missouri River on the east tu the Powder River on | the west, 1n addition to these there are in Dakota 28,034, 74.—TRIPLE SHEET. | are generally trienciy, | there are in Oregon, Cut up into small bands, 7,040, | the causes which have brought avout the receat as follows:—Lower Brulé Sioux, 1,600; Lower | Yanktonnais Sioux, 2,250; Two Kettle Sioux, 750; Riecateet Sioux, 1,200; Mindecoujoux Sioux, 3,060; Sans Arc Sioux, 720: Upper Yanktonnais 3 2.400; Ponca Sioux, 977; Onchapas Sioux, %,000; Ogalialla Sioux, 3,000; Yankton Sioux, 2,500; Wappeton and Sisseion Sloux, 1,637; Arickarees, 1,500; Gros Ventres, 490; Mandans, 400; Assinna- boines, 2,640. Of these tue Brulés, Blackieet, Sans Arc, Onchapas, Arickarees, Gos Ventres, Mandans and Assinnaboines are h stile. In Kansas, Eastern Colorado and Western Indian Territory are the Pottowatomies, Sacs and Foxes of Missourt, Shawnees, Delawares, Senecas, Kaa- sas or Kaws, Kicapoos, Ottawas, Kiowas and Comanches, Apaches, Osages, Southern Arapa- hoes, Chippewas and Munsees, 2nd Quapaws, mak- ing a total of 17,442. Of these the Kiowas and | Comanches, Arapahoes and Apaches are hostile. IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY | are the Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, Witchitas, Delawares and a few other tribes, ail friendly, amounting to 47,804. In New Mexico are the Navajos, some smail bands of Utes, Apaches, apd Apaches and Miem- | bres, and the Pueblos, amounting to 20,059. In Colorado there are 5,000 Utes. In Montaua there are the Flatheads, Pena a’Ore- ies and Kootenays, Biackleet, wans, Blood, Gros Ventres and Crows, amounting to 19,300, Of these the Crows are iriendly. In Ura and Wyoming are the Shoshones or Snakes, the Utahs, a few Utes and mixed Shosho- nes and Bannocks, in all 25,250. ‘These Indiaus In addition to these there are in Minnesota the Chippewas, in detacned bands, nuybering 5,°793 in lowa wandering bands of Sacs and Foxes, num: bering 264; in Wisconsin wandering bands of Wtn- nevamges 700, and the Pottowatomies, numbering The Pawnees, Utes, Shoshones or Snakes, Arick- frees and Crows ure the enemies of the Sioux. The Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes are the allies of the Sioux, by association and intermar- riage with them. Four or five years ago apparent diferences arose between the Sioux and the Chey- | eunes and Arapahoes, and the latter made over- tures to the Snoshones to join them against the Sioux. Washakie, the chief o1 the Shoshones, plac- ing no reliance in the goou faith of the Cheyennes ana Arapahoes, declined to entertain the propo- sition made by them, and the alllance was not effected, In 1832 a severe battle took place on the Chug River, a few miles south of the present site of Fort | Laramie, between the Stoux and Cheyepnes and Arapahoes for possession of the territory. A TREATY OF PEACE was then made, when it was agreed that the terri- tory north of the Platte River should belong tothe Sioux, and that south of it tothe Cheyennes and Arapanoes, In 1841 a feud arose in the Sioux camp, and a considerable number of tne tribe ieft, went south and ranged with the Cheyennes in the Republican River country. The seceders were given the name of the “Cut-off bands,’ ana now number forty lodges. In 1544 a social leud arose in the camp of the Cheyennes and Arapehoes and 140 lodges of Cheyennes and sixty lodges of Arapanves | went north and joined the Sioux. They constitute | whatis now known as the Northern Cueyennes | and Arapahoes. The chief man among the sioux is | | Red Cloud. He is not a hereditary cnet, but a success!ul soldier, who, tollowed at first by a few adventurous spirits, has now, by success at arms, aretinue of 100 lodges of’ Ogallalas aud i3u of | Brulés, Spotted Tati is a Brulé, with a following of 200 lodges. Iron Shell and Man-A‘raid-of-His- — Horses are minor chiefs, respectively, of the Brulés and Ogalialas. The principal chief of the Arapahoes and Cheyennes is Medicine Man. The Sioux, Arapahoes and Ciesennes hunt in the Powder Kiver country and winter in the Black Hills; a portion of tue Brulés and Cat-om bands hunt on the Repubitcan River. The Repub- lican Valley will, however, soon cease to be a hunting ground, It 18 already occuvled by great numbers ol white men, who make a business of killing the builalo, not tor robes, but for the leather to be obtained from tanning the hides, This pufalo leather is superior tothe leather made trom the hides of domestic cattle for all belting for | machinery. WEST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS there is an Indian population of 143,705. Of these all friendly. In Iaano there are 6,044, all friendly. Of these the largest tribe is the Nez Perces, num- bering 3,200 souls, In Washington Territory there are 15,494 Indians, mostly in small bands, peaceable or well disposed. In Nevada there are numerous small tribes, numbering in all 12,720, an@ all friendiy and peaceable except the Goshrites, in- definite bands to the number oj 800 Indians, re- ported wiid and treacherous. In California there are 23,807 Indians of various bands, all riendly except the Piutes, who number 4,000, and the Serranos, asmail tribe o1 115, botn of which are hostile. In Arizona are the Yumas, Chemehuevis, New River Indians, Cocopas, Pah-Utes, Mojaves, Hua- lapais, Yarapats, Pimas, Maricopas, Papagos, Mo- gins, Casinos, Tonto Apaches, Pinals and Coyote- ros and Sierra Blancos. The strength ofsome of | these tribes 18 unknown. As lar as ascertained | they number 16,200 persons. The Hualapais, Yara- pais, Tonto Apacnes, Pinals and Coyateros and | Sierra Blancos are hostile—tue rest are friendly or | peaceable, In Alaska there are 62,400 Indians, of whom | 20,000 are Esquimaux, The Hydas, Kakes and Awks are the hostile tribes in this Territory, and | number in all 2,600, RECAPITULATION. ‘Yo recapitulate, there are Fast of the Kocky Mountains West of the Rocky Mountains. 188,415 + 148,705 Grand total of Indians in the United States... + 832,120 BEAUREGARD ON KELLOGS. The Black League—A National Convention—A Review o: the Political Situation and Its Causcs, General Beauregard, who with bis daughter has been passing some time in Canada, is now in New York, on his return to New Orleans, his place of | residence. Wishing to obtain his views on some | of the questions now before the public, a Heratp | reporter visited him several times, with the foilow- ing result:— “General, at this time your views of the political | Situation in your native State, with a statement of | popular uprising against the authority of Kellogg, | would be of general interest.” “Aslam disiranchised it 1s personally disagreea- ble to me to eX; ress an Opinion on public questions; therefore, since the war, and I have tried to avoid doing 80, as also to take any part in political ailairs, except on one or two occasions, Wuen my jellow citizens Lad urged that I might be of service in allaying A FATAL RACE HOSTILITY that was being engendered fa the State by a | wicked class Of political adventurers, wno lor some SiX years have made Loutsiana tueir special | field Of oper#tions. Nevertneless, Mf auything I can say at this particular juncture can serve to give the readers of the HERALD a soniewhat adequate notion of the deplorable con- dition to Which we are reduced, L cannot teiuse to speak, and will sav—First, That the movement of Lieutenant ernor Penn was due to the well grounded conviction of the whole people of Louisi- ana that they bad no other means of pe trom tue utterly ruinous tyra ‘carpet-bag’ crew who have seized political rnie in e that Stat tyranny and rapacity of w | one can form @ Just conception who bh not wit- nessed their muititorm phases pon t vt. AS tue result O1 @ violent subversion of the will and hoice of a Clear Majority of the people of the State, 48 expressed in the popular election of No- vemoer, 1874, the present State governinent 18 without any honest claim to be cousidered such @ republican form of goverument as ihe national constitution guarantees to the people of Louisiaua, Thus illicitly begotten, | ts life 1s only maintamedby "a pitiless | taxation to meet the greedy demands of the humerous corps of oficiais who fill all places | uuder this odious régime of piunder. The whole | executive legisiation and judicial admiuistration Oi the State 1s in the hands ot ACCOMPLICES IN THE CRIME that installed Keliogg as Governor, wud who are, Uerefore, able not only to protect tuemseives trom accountability but to prolong indefinitely the usurpation which gave them their places of power. ‘Thus there 1s estabilshed over us an impregnavie ‘ring,’ Whose members virtually convert the whole public revenue to their own personal uses, and who are able, by legal jorms, to battie every effort Ol their victims to get reliel, Tue details which I might adduce in support of this statement would fila large volume, Cntil 1869 Louisiana, under an aimost absolute military rule, rapidly began to re- cover iro the effects of the war. New Orleans, in 1860 =the largest exporting city of the Union, was rapidly retrieving her lust trade. New railways were on foot and on ail sides were visibie the most encourhg- ing Signs of prosperity. But im 186% an viection touk plave, an election from all share in whieh the most ol the white people, including the great ma- | jority of the taxpayers and property holders of the tate, Were rigidly exciuded, and therefore the macnihery O1 the State government, nominally re- publican, fell into the hanas of # band of carpet- bag couspirators who had no stake in the industry orcommerce Of Louisiana, men 1n no true sense citizens of the state, without character or social or business standing, and some even of whom were fugitives trom justice eisewhere, The iately eniranciised colored people, credulous of their prolessions, became the easy dupes Of these men, and thus the State was given up to pillage, ‘The negroes Were made to believe that uniess they put and kept these ADVENTURERS IN POLITICAL POWER the blacks would be reduced vack into slavery. Further, that the plantations of their former mas- ters were to be subdivided and distributed to tue late slaves who had worked them. In this mau- her Was deliberately raised tne firebrand of race antagonism, coupled with the worst form of te Spirit Of communism, With all the tll results which have followed. ‘To give organization and full fae to this spirit 01 mtschiel, a secret society, Khown ag the "Black League,’ was jormed tn all parts of Louisiaua, as, indeed, throughout the whole Soutu. In Louslana thts organization, as it largely constituted ‘he militia Jorce of toe State was armed, while tt formed an aeily assem ble it | People the other day, aiter having | Ment there is no appeal. litical club or caucus, rigidly disciplined, firmly Banaed together aud thoroughly subservient to all the aims and schemes of the white adventurers | whom I have sketched.”” “Do you believe, General, that there exists im your State, particularly in the White Leagne of wanization, any sentiment toward the federal gov- erament which amounts to disioyalty ¥ “That there ig no Such sentiment is conclusively shown, it seems to me, WY. Dee a emenrS Ro m0 temper witn which the power trered oare pet-bag power all over the State, yieed_ te the numericaily feebie military authority of Gei= eral Emory, who represented the Cnion.” “The New Yok HeRaco, General, Nas proposed A NATIONAL CONVENTION for the purpose of bringing about a perfect, good, old-time reconciliation ‘of the sections. Wilt ow | please say woat you think would be the reaulty “4 was glad to'see the proposition broached, If sach @ convention were assembled of the leaaing conservative men of botn political parties ot tue country, Willing to forget for the time all mere party ends and advantaves, great good might re- sult; but otherwise no good would come of the measure.” “Will you please explain how the Kellogg govern- ment, a8 You appretiend, can perpetuate itself? “The usurping Legisiature hus enacted a law giving the appointment of all registrars of elec- tons into the hands of Kellogg. These men tn tura are empowered to exciude any man they choose !rom the poll lists without appeal. He aud his accomplices likewise make up the Return- ing Board, whose returns of elections stand unim- peachable, Hence, as is very plain, @ law granting powers 80. anterepublican and extraordinary could have only bveen de- vised for improper ends. It wili be so used as to keep the Whole muss or the intellizent, educated people of Lowistana trom choosing their State authoriues orrepresentatives in Congresi ludeed, $0 barelaced & Caricature of popular ernment was never seen, und | most add that the evil cannot be confined merely to Louisiana and other Southern States, tor bistory teaches that the way being shown how ill deeds are pracuicavie abe Saninly ly contagious and sure to be tol- lowed, 5 S i THE WIHITE LEAGUE. “What are the chie: aims of tue White Leaguo organization?” ! “Keally 1 Know nothing more than is widely stated and explained in the newspapers of the day. It oad its origin, however, in the most nata- ral of haman instincts, that of sell-preservation, on te part of the wuole white population identi- fed with the prosperity of the State, Some or- ganization was absolutely essential in defence aguinst the imsatiate encroachments of the thoroughly organized gang of plunderera whose devastutions had already become intolerable. 1t was the natural measure of self-defence against the organization of the ‘Black League,’ set on foot and handied by the white and black political adventarers in the State for the perpetuity of their power and the Opportunity to appropriate the whoie resources of the white peopte. In no way did it aim to assatl the political or social rights of others, but to de- fend those of the white people trom utter extinc tion. Under such circumstances as are unde- niably to be found in Louisiana the White League sprang ito existence from precisely the same human impulse that popular governments are born from, while its atims and tts actions have been far more moderate and conservative than tuose of the much commended Vigilance Commit- the of San Francisco, which in 1550 absolutely set aside and suostituted its own for the State and manici political and judicial authorities of that city lor soine time.” TAXATION IN LOUISIANA, “Kellogg now asseris that during his possession of oitice he has effected & material recuction of taxation and debt of the State—wuat is yur opine ion in tis respecct” “lam not acquainted with his statements, but am sure he can establish nothing of the kind. It is true the State Levislature decreed a slight reduc- tion Of the percentage Of taxation, but at bottom it was a shallow device; for at the same time the assessors appointed by Kellogg have and exercise Uhe power to assess property at so high a figure ap to Make the total yield im money as large as betore. Tue rate of taxation im New Orleans ts about five per cept; but all property at the same time (except that owned by tiese conspirators) has been assessed at Irom twenty-five to fifty per cent above absolute value, and irom this assess- ‘To make the matter More flagrant those investea with such power are pecuntarily interested in the highest possible as- sessments, tor their compensation is derived trom @ commission upon the assessed value of property. Further, the suiereys have no right of redemption should thetr property be sold for these taxes, and the purchasers (generally partisans of Kellogg) acquire lasting tities. TUE DEBT OF THE STATE. Betore the war the debt of the State did not ex- ceed $11,000,000 and in 1863 some $13,000,000, whereas, in 1473, it had been swollen to the cone fessed sum of $42,000,000, The debt of the city of New Orleans, $5,000,000 beiore the war, about $10,000,000 1n 1868, 18 now fully $25,000,000. And yet for so enormous an expenditure no return can be shown in the sbape Of public improvements of substantial character, while the people have been ruined by It. Betore 1860 the expenses o1 the Leg- islature, for example, did not exceed $250,000 per | annum, while in i873 they did not 1all short of @ miilion of do:lars. Tie State printing, which in 1560 Cost nut 10 exceed $50,000, in 1873 was not under $400,000, Tie Metropolitan police of New Orieans, patd by that city, costing formerly about $200,000, without any increase of population, ts now costing $400,000 per annum, while affording no real protection to the people 80 taxed for their support, In 1868 the State tax was 73 muils, winile in 1872 it was 213g mus, based on an exorbi- tant estima’ ! property vaiues, with a leariully depressed condition of the agricultural and busi- ness mterests of the people. As for any alleged reduction of tue debt of the State Kellogg must reler, not to any amount extinguished by pay- ment, but to that extinguished by REPUDIATION, ‘This I know they have resorted to with a two~ fold objeci—First, that of reducing the debt below the constitutional limitation, in order to secure the warraat of law for fresh issues of bonds, with iresa opportunities for pillage ocher- ‘wise closed to them ; and, secondly, for the wide field tiat such repudiation will open for speculation, for ten they are to make the selection of the bonds which are to be held valid and of those which are to be repudiated. im conclusion I desire to say tnat J have habitually cast my intiuence adversely | to all violent exercises of the natural rights of the people. .L have advised submission even to the audacious courses which have so long afflicted wi with the confident hope that tn the end the righ! would become apparent to the whole country and 60 prevail, The moderation which characterized the late movement, I am sure, is already appre- ciated, and must invoke a general resolution that @ republican government shall be restored in Louisiana,” A CARD FROM EDWIN BOOTH To THE Eptror OF THE HERALD:— 1 beg the HenaLp to accept my most gratefut thanks for its spontaneous aid to me extended day before yesterday. Your kindly and generous interference for me in my troubles is what one might baturally expect from such a journal, Again 1 thank, thank you, and, through yon, the New York Mail and all my friends of the press and otherwise. lam giad tofeel that the public does not blame me because of the fate whiciiscems to have over- whelmed me, I am grateful to all my creditors, too. If Lsink it will Le in # legitimate public enterprise, But for the theatre I should have been rich, [ hope to fignt through as soon as my health will permit. Ihave had my share of ill luck; but it la consoiing to feel that the public and press have bound me to them by ties of gratitude which can never be sundered. Gratefully, New YORK, Sept. 30. EDWIN BOOTH, Let Mr. Booth Play in New York. New York, Sept. 29, 1874. Yo THE EpITor OF THE HERALD:— I wbink if Mr. Edwin Booth, the actor, should commence an engagement in New York city he wouid soon realize money enoagh to pay ail his creditors. Ibave heard some of my lady iriends say that if he appeared they would go to the theatre every mignt, 1 think ita pity that the embarrassments of so great a man should be pub lished to the world; but everybody knows of them now, and, as everybody sympatnizes with him, L hope he will be wise enough to take advantage of my suggestion. E, T. THE RAILWAY MEN'S CONVENTION. ‘The ratlway men, who nave been holding meet- ings at the St, Nicholas Hotel, went yesterday on an excursion in the harbor, which had been ar- ranged by Mr. William H, Vanderbilt, for the pur- pose of showing them the various possible pointa of ireight delivery. Hence there was no addi- tional meeting at the St. Nicholas. The next con- Veution oj ireigot agents will be held in Chicago on the 14th, and the Raihway Commissioners will meet at the same time, Mr. Newberry, oO! the Western Commission for the regulation of ireignt rates for Eastern bound ireignt, said that notaing had as yet been done by the Commissioners, who had just organized, Tyey would be busy for some time, he added, with preliminary arrangements beiore discussing the new rates which (hey are to recommend to the companies for adoption, They Will not raise the rates, except where it may be necessary for the purpose oi a just equalization, and in some respects they will probaviy recom. mend tbat they be cut down. THE SKYLARKING HUNICIDE, Deputy Coroner Marsh yesterday, at the Morgug, Made an autopsy on the body of Adam Hausen, who received @ fatal blow with a cleaver a (ew days ago while skylarking with Jacob Haus, in Jackson street. Dr. Marsh found a penetrating wound about four and a hail incaes iong in the right side ot deceased, commencibg at a point two and @ half inches below the right nipple aad terminat- lng at @ pomt four inches above the umbilicus, There was an opening in the peritoneum ony and @ halt inches long, aud there Was also a wound in the right lobe of the liver one anda hati inches long. The intestines were agglutinated torrecher from peritonitis, Death was due to peritonitis Joliowing Lhe injuries, Coroner Kickbor wut bold an inquest. |