The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1875, Page 3

—— SHERMAN'S MEMOIRS. The Most Spicy Book of the Day. a INSIDE VIEWS OF THE ARMY. Early Troubles, Dissensions and Misunderstandings. SHERMAN’S OPINION OF HOOKER. Jealonsies Between Soldiers of the Regular and Volunteer Armies, SHERMAN'S ESTIMATE OF LOGAN, BLAIR AND OTIRRS Death of Leonidas Polk and J. B. McPherson. THE MARCH TO THE SEA. Did Grant or Sherman Plan This Wonderful Campaign ? SHERMAN CLAINS THE ENTIRE CREDIT. The Romance of “ Marching Through Georgia.” QUARREL WITH SECRETARY STANTON, How the Great General Publicly Resented the Insult of the Great Secretary. THE ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN. How the Confederate Officers Received the News. Memoirs oF GENERAL WILLIAM T. SHERMAN. By Himself, In two volumes. New York: D. Apple- ton & Co, 1875, Our first article on this noted work concluded ‘with the first volume. The second volume em- braces the narrative of his career, {rom the ap- pointment of Grant to command the armies until | ‘the close of the war. There is @ concluding chap- Ser on the military lessons of the war, which hi @iready been pubdlished and reviewed in the Hematp. The second volume embraces many Points that have heretofore been in controversy, Bnd the truth of which will be largely determined | by the evidence of the great soldier. This more especially as to the march to the sea and tle final campaign which led to the surrender of Jonnston’s army. Without entering so much into these Points of dissension let us content ourseives with Considering those portions of the General's work which throw light upon the great events in whica he was so illustriuus an actor, and which form some of the most glorious chapters in our national Bistory. SHERMAN IY COMMAND OF THS ARMY OF THE ‘WEST. On the 18th of March, 1864, General Sherman, ‘hen in the forty-fourth year of his age, relieved Beneral Grant in the command of tue Military Division of the Mississippi, and from that time for- ward he became, next to Genera! Grant, con- Spicuous figure of the war. The gen who served under him were Schofeld, Thomas, McPher- on and Steele. General Grant had jost been | Romtnated to the chief command of all tue armi pf the Union, and was on bis way to Richmond to | kecept the duties of his supreme station. General Bherman travelled with him as far as Cincinnatl Jer the purpose of discussing privately many little @etalis incident to his new rank and the great du- Mes that devolved upon him, Thereis @ singular Story of General Grant that, when taking com- mana of the army, he was auxious Rote and influence who had for various re ons “drifted into indetiviiy and discon- tent,” among them Generals Buell, McClellan, Burnside, McCook and Fremont, General Grant, Bocrman informs us, “thought it wise ana pru- to fraw again into ite service those officers of | dent to give all these officers appropriate com-— mai that would enable them to regain the tn- uence they had lost,” and he instructed Shei man to specially look out for Buell, MeCooc ana Crittenden, As it was manifest that we were to have some hard figuting he was anxious to bring into harmony every man and every officer Of skill in the profession of arms. This purpose ‘was only partly realized, and Sherman informs us Mr, Stanton, Secretary of War, ‘was notoriously vindictive in his prejudices” and would notconsent to the employment of these high officers, We men- Non this fact as one not generally known in the nis tory of the war and reflecting credit upon the discernment and the generosity of Grant, who believed that to supress the rebellion it was nec- Guthrie, formerly Secretary of tue Treasury ander President Pierce, and the presi- dent of a Kentucky railroad; which re fects honor upon him as @ resident of @ Southern State. that General Sherman had detatned bis locomo- tives and cars, “I wrote to him,” says Sherman, “frankly teiling him exactly Bow we were placed, appealed to his patriotism to stand by us. 1 ad- vised nim in like manner to hold on to all trains coming into Jeifersonville, Ind.” Mr. Guthrie gladly assented to this arrangement, and to lis patriotic co-operation the General at- tributes the perfect success of the iutare cam+ paigns. “i bave always,” ne says, “fels grateful to Mr, Guthrie, who had sense enough and patriot- jem enough to subordinate the interests of his Tallroad company (0 the cause of his country.” THE MASSACRE AT FORT PILLOW, Shortly after Sherman's takiog command Gon- eral Forrest mace that famous ratd which resulted fn the capture of Fort Pillow, The question as to whether the (roops of Forrest massacred the negro garrison at Fort Pillow has always been one of the provlems of the war, im alluding to it Gen- eral Sherman informs us that he oad intended (ue vacation of Fort Pillow, aud had so oraered it; bot that Gonerm Hubert had retained @ simall karrisou “to encourage the enlistient of the Viacks #8 suidiers, Which was @ lavorite political foley at that time. Consequently the exporure of ® «Mall garrison io an unsupported, outiving tort, sud the massacre that § wed, are hntto uo biamed upon Geperal Sherman. As to the mas- acre the General now says that no dowot the troups of Forrest “acted like a ast of barbarians, shovting @owa the horpless nevro garrison ater the ‘ort Was Iu thelr possession.” He gives Forrest \ne credit Of stopping the Oring as soon as ne tould, and bears ¢ For sually very kind to them. But “he had a deeper. « “test of fellows ander him,” and as that time Mr. Guthrie complained | | Hood, Polk and Hardee, numbering tm ali about there Is no doubt the feeling of the Southern peo ple was feariully savage on this very pomt of our making soldiers out of their late slaves, and Forrest way have shared this feeling. PREPARING FOR ATLANTA, Still greater events were impending. General Sherman’s three oficers—Thomas, McPherson and | Schofleld -were men ol education and experience, | ‘Who possessed spe: qualities of mind and 4 cnaracter which,” he suys, “fittea them in the | highest degree for the work then in contempla- tion.” ‘Tbe number of troops under ils command amonnted in ail to about 250,009 men, of which he | regurded more than 190,000 48 it Jor duty. Gen- | eral Sherman’s first plan was to take 109,000 men as a compact army for active operations, leaving 80,000 for garrison and to guard the lines of sup- plies. He organi three armies—the Cumber- land, Tennessee and the Oblo—and to make the Movements as swilt and mobile as possible he allowed only one wagou and one ambulance to a regiment, and compeiled cach oMver and soldier to carry food and clothing enough for five days on bis person, The army of the Cum- berland was Intrusted to the command of Gen- eral Thomas, the Tennessce to that of General McPherson and the Odio to that of General Scho- fleld. It wag dificult to enforce the regulation in reference to the paucity of baggage. cod dear od General Thomas could not make up his mind to | sieep on the ground like the soldiers, Sher- man frequently cailed his attention to the orders upon the subject, rathor jestingly than seriously. “Thomas,” he sa¥s, ** would break out against nis oMcers for having such luxuries, but, needing a | tent himseli and being goo¢ natured and slow to act, he never enforced my orders periectiv, In addition to his regular wagon train he hada hig wagon, which could be converted into an oflice, and this we used tu call ‘Thomas’ Circus,’ ’? Sometimes the General would find quartermasters had hidden away tents and mess fixtures of the most comfortable description, and these he always broke up. The result of nis efforts was that he doubts if any army ever went forth to battle with fewer impedimenta, THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN. So, with 109,000 men ready in hand, Sherman made ready to move against Joseph E. Johnston, who commanded the forces of the South. Upon assuming command of the army of the United States General Grant issued orders assigning Sher- man his part in the campaign, which was to work toward a common centre. Inreading this letter of General Grant to General Sherman, written April 4, 1864, we find the purpose of Grant was to fight only the Southern armies, Banks was in Louisiana, about to move upon his unhappy ond disastrous Red River expedition, Sigel was in } West Virginia, protecting the railroais, Grant did not anticipate much from Sigel, but, as he quaintly expressed it in his letter to Sherman, “Ir Sigel can’t skin himself he can hold a leg while some one else skins.’ His only instruc- tiens to General Sherman were ‘to move against Jobnston’s army, to break it up, an! to get into the interior of the enemy’s country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage yon can against their war resources.” This letcer, written on the 4th of April, 1864, demonstrates clearly that President | Grant had no idea at that time of what tt was pos- sible for Sherman to do; that he had not con- | ceived either the possible fall of Atlanta, or that brilliant march through Georgia to the sea which has given immortality toSherman’s name. Sher- man, in replying to this letter, a week later, Intl mated that he might possibly attack Atlanta; but the best he could hope for was to marci into Georgia, “Georgia,” he writes, “has a million of inhabitants. If they can live we should not starve.” “Iwill inspire my command, if success- ful, with the feeling that beef and salt are all that | 13 absolutely necessary to life, and that parchea corn once fed General Jackson’s army on that very ground.” Grant replied admontshing Sher- man to peware, lest the enemy, in a fit of despera- tion, might abandon Richmond and fal back upon him to crusn him, and telling | him that if Johnston “shows signs of joining follow him up to the full extent of your ability. 7 | will prevent the concentration of Lee upon your front if it is in the power of his armr to do it.’ So instructed Sherman set forth upon the Sth of May | on his campaign into Georgia, the day appointed by Grant for his own campaign in Virginia. His army was in light marching trim; he bimself haa Jess accommodation than an ordinary brigade com- | mander, aesiring, a8 he did, to set the army an | example of being ‘able to start at 4 moment's no- tice and to subsist on the scantiest food.” He had obtained records of the census tables showing the Population and statistics of every county in Georgia, the number of horses anc cattle and the probable agricultural resources—a wise precau- tion considering that be meant to live on the coun- try. McPherson, be thinks, could have taken Re- | gaca on the 11th of May, but he tell back, “Such aD opportunity,” Sherman says, “does not occar twice in a single life, but at the critical moment McPherson seems to have been a little timid; stil he was perfectly justified by his orders." DISSENSIONS IN THE REBEL ARMY. } ‘The question bas o'ten been asked why it was that the Confederate army did not dzht a pitched battle in the neighborhood of Cassville, Sherman bimself found at Cassville all the features of prep- aration for a grand battle, und among trem a long line of treah intrenchments. Johnston had | under his con:mand tliree army corps, those of 0,000 men. After the war, he saya, he met Gen- eral Johnston, and they talked their batties over at the friendly cird table, Jonnston sald that he tetended to fight Sherman at Casaville, and rhe action was to in in the morning. While at sup- per, however, Genera! Hood informed him that his army was enfiiaded by the Union artiliery—an opiniop confirmed oy General Polk and other of his commanders, Hood and Polk botn feared they couid not hold their men, General Johnston, says | Sherman, “was provoked, accused them of having | been in conference, with being beaten before bat- | we, and added that he was unwilling to engage in a critical battle with an army s0 superior to bis own in numbers, with two of nis three corps com- Manders dissatisfied with the ground and posi- tions assigned them.” Consequently he retreated south of the Allatoona range. The close of May leit Sherman in command of this ranze and | opened up the way to the Kenesaw Mountains. THE DEATH OF GENERAL POLK. Sherman kept pusiiag his way down toward | Atlanta. It wasin this campaign that the rebel | General Leonidas Polk, who had been a Bishop of the Southern Episcopal Church, lost his jife. The story of his death is one of tno dramaric incidents of the War, reminding us of the death of tho ‘a- mous French General, Morcan, who was killed by @ shot from 6 battery Which bad been frea by the special order of Napoleon. On June 14 Generai Sherman, in conversation with General Howard, obser at the distance of 8.0 yards, a group of Loniederate oficera, evidently watching the fea- eral troops through glasses, Sherman calied General Howard's attention to this group and = ofdered him to compel it to keep behind tts cover, Howard answered that his orders from General Thomas were to spare ar- tiilery ammunition. “oat was right according to the goneral policy,” ys Sherman. “I ex- plained to him that we must kesp ap the moraiz of the bold offensive; that he mus: use bis ar- tillery to force the enemy to rematy on tio timid defensive, and ordered him to cause a battery close by to fre three vol.er One of trese yol-< Jeys killed General Polk. General Jonnston after+ ward explained to General Sherman the exact manner of General Poit's death. He had ridden to Pine Mountain, uccompanied by Generals Hardee and Polk. He noticed the preparation at Sherman's battery to fre and caused the svidiers to scatter, “They did 80,” says Jonnaton, “and no likewise hurried behind the parag¥t, trom whicn he had an equally good view of the tion, but General Pok, who was dig- nifled and corpuient, Walked stowiy, not Wishing to Appear too harriea or cautions in the presence o1 the Men, and was struck across the breast by aa unexploded shell, which xilied nim instanciy.” ‘it bas been charged,” says Suerman, ‘that I fired tho snot Which killed Gen- | | eral Polk, and that I knew it was directed against tha: Genera). Tao fact is, that at toat distance ‘we could Not even “cll That the groop Were ofliosa Ot ail, Lwas on horseback & couple of hundred | Schofield and Hooker, | that between him aod Biair there existed a nate | ural rivairy; that bota were men of great courage | Iaotions happened to fall upon West Pointers’ | relieved of the command of his corps. | command. | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1875,—TKIPLE yards off before my orders to fire were executed, and nad no ides that our shot had taken effect.” "TROUBLE WITH HOCKER. It is noted that ta this campaign General Sher- man took pains to never go into camp with- ous tntrenching, He had @ special service of men for this work, and during the cam- palgn tundreae, and perhaps thousands, of miles of relrenchments were built by both armies, and, “as a rule, whichever party at- tacked, that one got the worst of it.” It rained most of the time. Rain, according to Sherman, having a favorable effect on troops in action and in the march, but not im the woods. On one oc- casion Hooker, who after uls failuie in the Rast bad been given anotner opportunity in the | West and commande? 2 corps in the | army of Thomas, telegraphed to General | | Suerman, ignoring ‘Thomas, that he had prac tically woaa victory, Sherman was anpoyed ut this uctlon of Hooker, “General Tuomas hud, be- fore this occasion,’”’ ge says, complained to him of “General Hooker's disposition to switch off leaving Wide gaps in bis lines, so as to be inde- pendent, and to make glory oa lis Own account. i therefore resolved not to overlook tbis breach of discipline and propriety.” Riding over to Hooker's quarters Sherman showed the despatch and the injustice it had done to General Schofield also, and there were high words between tne two Generals, “Ag we rode away trom tuat church,” sa) Sherman, ‘General Hooker was by my side, and Itoid him that such a thing must not occur again. In other words, I reproved him, more gently than the occasion demanded, ana from that time he begun to sulk. General Hooker had come from the East, with great fameasa lighter, and at Chattanooga he was glorified by his battle above the clouds, which, I icar, turned his head, He scemed jealous of all the army com. manders, because, in years and former rank and experience, he thought he was our superior.’” DISSENSIONS AND TROUBLES. In tact these army dissensious were as frequent among our oficers as in the Soutn, When it be- came necessary to appoint an ofticer to command tue Army o( the Tennessee, Joun A. Logan and Francis ?, Blair, corps commanders, each expected the appolutmeat, Sherman says he did pot con- sider Logan equai to tae command of three corps; and talent, but were politiclans by nature and ex- perience, “I regarded,” he says, “both Generais Logan and Blair as volunteers that looked to per- sonal Jame and glory as auxilary and secondary to their political ambition and not as pruiessional soidiers.’ Consequently General 0. 0. Howard was given the command, “AML these = pro- Says Sherman “and doubtless Logan and Blair had some reason to believe that we intended to | monopolize tue higuer honors of the war ior the regular officers, 1 rememver well my own tuoughts and feelimgs at the time and leel sure that I was not, tuteationally, partial to any class. I wanted to succeed in taking Atiansa and needed commanders who were purely and tech- Bically soidiers, men who would ovey orders aud execute them promptly on time, for] knew that we would have to execute some most delicate mauwuvres, requiring the utmost skill, nicety aud precision.” Tue appointment of Howard gave offence to General Hooker. He asked to be General Tuomas “approved and heartily recommended’ the application, aud General Slocum was assigued to his command, Hooker was offended because Le was not chosen to succeed McPuerson, but, a cording to sherman, ‘iis chances were nut even considered. I am told,’ be says, “that Thomas apd 1 were jealous of him, but this is bardly probable, for we ou the spot did not rate his fgnting qualities as bigh as he did, and lam, moreover, convinced that ne and General Butter- Meld went to the rear lor personal reasons,” So Hooker retired from the army into @ condition of , chronic discontent and criticism. Tue judgment | passed upon Lim by General Sherman is a terrible one, und indicates the frankuess with wolch the | General of Our armies 18 accustomed to express | his opinions, General Palmer, of Llinois, aiter- ward to become & conspicous reiorm politician, also made trouble because of & question to whether he did or did not rank Scio. | flela. Sherman settled this controversy, coa- | ceaimg Schofield’s claim bunt at the same lume telling General Palmer tuat the loas 01 time occasioneu by his folly “was cqual to the loss of 2,000 meu.” Palmer insisted upon resign- ing. Altuouga Sherman urged him strongly asa friend not to co #0, ‘est bis motive might ve mis- construed and because it might damuge his iuture career in civil lite,” be did resign aad went to Il- linois. It 18 painful to read, in a time when private cluzens were making ry sacrifice for the coun- wy as soldiers, that otner citizeus, who bad honor, Tank, comparative safety and a certalaty of great political distiuction a: the end of Lhe war, should impertl the cause by these paliry quarreis as to the dates of commissions and the right to exercise } THE DEATH OF ’PHERSON, ‘The offer whose command gave rise to 80 much bitterness of feeling was the brillant young McPherson, Woose death came upon the coupiry 80 grievously at the outset of this campulen, Hood had been appoiutoa tv command the Army of the Souta in place oi Joe Jolnstou, because of bis being a “*betier ignter.’ McPherson aua Hood bad beeu ta t Same class at West Pout, aod | When it Was Jearued taat Hood had veen given the command of the opposing army it Was agreed that we ougnt to be Unusually Cautious ana prepared at ail tunes ior sallies and bard dgaung, for Hood, tuough not deemed “such of @ scholar of ol great meutul capacity, was undountediy a brave, determined aud rasa mad. it Was during the progress of @ sally suddenly made by Hood for the purpose of turning Sher- man’s rear that the noble young Pher- sou lost his life, It was in the morning, avout eleven v’ciock. McPherson had calied on saerman to talk about tae prospects ior the day. They walked to @ road, @ shure distance, and sat duwa at tue foot of @ tree to study @ map. There was au occasional musketry firing and artillery, bat suddenly 1M one part Of the ime ap Occasional shot began to be heard, Sherman ed McPherson what it in it. “We took ty pocket compusa,”’ says sherman, nick L aiway: Fried Wid we, und oF noting (he airectioa of the suuud We became sa istled that the firing was tou far to vur let. rear to be explained by Known facts, &od be nastily called for bia horse, 18 staf and wis Orderiies. Meier+ son Was thea in his prime, about thirty-four years Olu, vVer six jeet high, and a Very hanusome wan im every way, Umiversally liked «og nud many noble qualities, He bad om his boots outside bis pantulvons, gauntiets on bis \auds, had on bis | Mejor generai’s untiorm and wores sword belt bat no sword, He basuly gatoered nus papers, save one, which L now possess, lotu &@ pocketovok, put ic iu Mia breast pocket aud jumped on nis porse, saying he would hurry down ois line and send me back word ‘what this sound meent.’” im a jew minutes shermua, who iu tue moeaniig@e had gone wack to (he house, alarmed by the luctease of the mys- terious finng met one of McPuctsun’s stam, his horse covered with sweat, who reported that the General Was either kilied or a prisoner, McBhersoon had riddgh auead, giving au order to some oops to hurry forward, and Gisappesred in the woud douotiess With « sense Of Gusolute security. in sound of musketry was (here heard, aad NcPier- son’s horse came back bieediag, wounded and rideriess, An bour atterwards t body of McPherson was found. A duliet bad entered bis boay hear tue heart, aud Mej’serkon must have Qi@d a a 1eW seconds after being Wit, The remaius Were seut back to Mariette, and (rom twence to Lis home in Ciyde, Ole, Woere iuey were received Wita great honor, and are ROW Lured im asmail cemetery close by Wis mother’s house, Which ceme- tery 1s compoged In part of the orchard 1m whicu ne used tu play When & Dos. Hu FALL OF ATLANTA, Atlanta fell, as au mea wil remember who re- coil bie anxiety (hat pertaded the country during that teving time of isdt = Meviellan Wad been nhommated for the Presiuency ayalnst Linco, ana We sUMMer DAG aimust Passed Deture ti uccesses 0} Grant liad been readzed, rate ar were making @ gailant n Virginia and tue West, Grant was sieaduy “peguing away” through tue Wilderness, aud shermao was slowly forcing bis army into te mututans of Georgia, Tue coupuy had almost despaired of & ‘Victory, When suddeniy the Uoniederate troops abandourd Atlanta, Wien towa Was cocupied by General Siocum. Waoen steady, serious old TioGius heard the news he “sua,ped his Angers, Wuisiied and almost danced.” “As the mews spread wirough the urmy the shouts that wrose irom tne aroy,” say@ Soerman, “the Wid tahooing aad glorious laughter Were to us a luk Fecompeuse Jor the labor and totl and hardships 'prouga whicn We had passed In the previous three months,’ Letiers o: coogratuiat.on wee seut by jinevin ond Grint and & salute of shotted yun Wa, ired irom tue basteries Und Kichmund, Saer- mon became e@ most popular suicier of ihe War, Mis cumpal@n d@ieated MovieuAn and de- cided the Te-elec.ion of President LAncoin, Sherman took possession Of Ationta and carried OUtA severe Measure, Jor which he was criucived at the tne, He orderda gil the Inhabitants to leave, Geueral Hood, Who vommMunaed the ontedurates, an | should be sent South to accompiisn SHEET. bf swered that the measure “transcends in studied and iugepious cruelty ull acts that ever before were brought to my attention in the dark history of war.” The correspondence was angry and eld- guent. Sherman arraigied Mood and the whole Seuth im tervent ana nt always wise rhetoric. Hood replied that the c se of Genera! Bauer in | New Orieans was even more and consider. | ate than thut of Sherman, ana “better a thousand | deaths than under Sherman aad his negro But man Was imperative in Wis re “1,” he said to Halleck at the time, ‘4 ple raise a low! agamst my barbarity and | cruelty, | will answer that war is War and not pop- | ulurity seeking, !f Wiley want peace, they and their relatives mast stop the war.” Kus it shermaa’s Course Was severe it was justified py the orders | from Wasitingtoy. Halleck’s letrer to Shertaa, | commentag upon the controversy with iMovd, shows the wngry feeling whieh abiimaied eve calm ofticers of the regular army, “1 woud,” Bays Halleck, “destroy every will factory witain & 2 Whien lt dia net wantior my own Use, ‘This the reheis have done, not Goly 10 Mary- Jand and Peunsylvaoit, but aiso in Virgin other rebe! States, when compelled to tail ba beiore our arms. ‘In many secuons of the try they have not leit’s mill to grind corn for tuetr own sufering famiues, lest We imirot use them bo | supply our armies, We must do the sume,’? WHO PLANNED TEE MARCH TO TH The gencra! opinion has peer that, while General Sherman commended the army which warcaca irom Atianta to Savannah and irom tuence to Ricn- | mond, the conception of the plan be1ongs to General Grant, it is weil that this question saouid be de- cided, In many respects the march to the sew stands out from the rebellion as the most brijiant acilevement of the war, On the 12th of Septen- ber, 1864, Generai Grant wrote to Snerman from City Voint that he did not know exactly waat to | do with Sberman’s army, and was disturbed by | the difficultres of suppiylog it, and intimated that | | ? t A it might be weilvw threaten Macon and Augusta. To this letter General Shermun replied, ing he would not hesitate the State of Georgia with 60,000 m hauling some stores and depending on the country for the balance; that “where a milion of people | find subsistence my army Won't starve.” He did not believe 1m penetrating Georgia without an ob- jective besond. ‘it would be productive of mnch good. | can start east, aud make @ circult south @nd back, duing Vast damage to the Stace, but re- suiting in no permanent good, and by threatening to do so I hold a rod over the Georgians. wno are not over loyal to the South,’? tie conciudes by ad- vising that Grant’s and Canby’s armies should be reimturced, and that ne should keep Hood emt- ployed, and put nisown avmy in fine order tor a maren on Augusta, Columbia and Chariestun. ‘ihe possession 1 tue Savannen River is more Jatal to the possibility of Southern independence. He may | stand the tall of Richmond, but nos the fall of | Georgia.” “Ii you can whip Lee and lean mare! | tothe Atlantic, 1 think Uncie Abe will give us | twenty days’ aosence Lo see the young foiks.”? This is the first indication in this Correspondence uf What alierwara became the jamous march to the | Bea. | GRANT HESITATES OVER THE Mancu. To this ictter Grant answered, September 6, “It | Would be better to arive Forrest out or Tennessee, as # first step todo anything ese you may ieel your iorce suticient ior;” But Sher@an wou wot @bandoa nis sea dream, Ov the 9tii of Octover ne telegraphed to Toomas, “I want to destroy ail tie rouds velow Chattanooga, inciuding Aan cy to make jor the seacoast;” und again, to C “i can make this march and can make Georg bowi.” Geueral J. dl. Wilson was sent duwn to commaua tre cavalry, Grant's idea eviuently being tbat Wilson at the head o1 the cavairy jorce might doin Georgia Whut Sheridan oad done in Virginia; “and Grant,” says Sherman “advised that Wilsoa i that L had proposed to do With the main army; but | had notso much faithin cavairy a® be nau, and pre- Jerred the Orsi.”” Grant again urged Siierman to destroy Hood's army before thinking 0; bis marca Across to (he sea, and the next day Sherman an- swered bim that 1homas was strony enough to hundie liood, and that “the best results would follow the ‘contemplated movemert through Georgia.” Evidently this despatch decided Gen- erai Grant's mind, for the 20 of November he tele- graphed:—“Ido oot see that you can withdraw irom where yuu are to follow Huod witiout giving up all We wave gained in territory. I say, ten, go on as you propose.’ ‘Tnis,” says General Sherman, “was the urst time that Geueral Grat assented to the march to the sea, and althoa iiany of big warm friends and aduurers insist that he was the autior and projector of tat murch, and that I simply executed nis plans, Geterul Grant us never, fa my opinion, thougue so or said so.” “I have often veen asked by weil meaning friends when the thought of that march first entered my mind. 1 knew tnat an army Which had penetrated Georgia as far as Avante could not tura back --it must go ahead; out waen, how and where depended oa Y consideratious. AS 8000 as Ilood crossed trom Lovejoy’s to Pal- metio, 1 saw ihe Move in My Mina’s eye, aud after Jefferson Davis’ speech at Palmetto, on september 26, 1 Waa more positive iu my c¢ nvic but was in doubt as to the time and manue We thiuk there can ve BO Coudt of ibe fact that (he marca to the sea Was thoroughly the conception of Suerman and that he bLeheved the success of the marcu woula result im the jail of Richmond. On tue ita of November, hve days aiver Lois despaten, giving formal assent, | Genera! Graut telegraphed approving the plaas .and saying: “i toink every thing here is favorauie now. Great good fortune attend you. 1 believe you Will be eminently successful, and at most cau only make @ march less traitigi than hoped tor.’? THE MARCH TO THR SHA. On the 10th o! Novemver, 1804, Suerman set out upon bis mared. His army was divided into a right and left wing uuder the command of Generis Howard avd Slocum, and was composed of avout 60,000 men. Most ex- traordinpary = efforts hh been made to purge it from non-combatants and sick men, and every soldier in the ranks was “weil equipped and provided as well 44 humau foresigut cogia with ali we essentials Of ite, strengtn and vigorous action.” Provisions euoagh ior twenty days and fo. age for five were takep. Sherman's uescription of the Mourning When the march began is vivid and picturesque:—“We stood upon the very ground Whereon Was jougiit tae bloody batile of July 22, and could see the copse 01 Wood wuere McPuersou fell, Benind us lay Atianta smouldering and iu ruins, tne black smoke rising” bigh in air and bke ® pall over the ruwed Rignt before us the fourteenth corps, marching steadily and rapidiy wit made lighs * @ cheery and swWiuging pi of the many hundred miles that lay between ua and Kichmood. Some band struek up the an- them 0: John Brown. The mea congas ap (he strain, and never before or since have [ ueard the cuorus done with more spirit or better harmony of time and piace. Taen we turued our horses’ heads to toe east. Atiauta was soon lost bemud the screen of trees and became # ti.ng of tne past, Around it clings many & tuougnt of des- perate vattie, of hope and jear, Which now seem like the memory of @ dream, and 1 have never seen tne place since. The day Was exiremely beautiiul; Clear sunlight, with bracing air, and aa Unusual leeling o1 Inspiration seeemed to pervade all miads—wne fecling of something to come, ¥: and undetiued, still [oil of venture and iuten terest. Even the common soldiers caugie the tu- spiration, afd Many 4 group called out to me as I Worked my Way past them, ‘Uucie Billy, | guess Grane is waitivg for usin Kienmend.’ Indeed the geaeral sentiment was oat wé were marcoing jor lucamond, where we should eud tne war’? “Lt bad nO purpose to march direct for Kichwond by Way of AGxusta and Courlotvevilie, but always did design to reach t Port Royal, and even kept in mind the alier of Pensacola.” THE ROMANCE OF THE MARCH. General Sherman's style mes pictu and Vivid in treating of tis warch to tye sea. AS Vovingtou the uegrues were simply irantic With Joy, and clustered avout hts horse, shouting and praylog ip their quaint style, which had 4» pecu- har eloquence ‘(uxt will move @ stone,” and “I can boW see & poor girl, in tue very ecsiasy of the Methodist shout, hagging the tattered banoer of oue of the regiments und jumping up to the feet of Jesus.” ‘iveu there came un olu, gray-uaired ever saw. ar and its : id that he via; that be negro slaves compre- henged this fact, ana he said they sarely aia.” It wasa@nhardtime With the plantation of llowell Covo, the lamous revel geuerai, When Sherman reached it He gave orders to General Davis to spare nothing, wud ihat pignt the plantation wae aestroyed, iting in frout of the tire that eveu- ing,’? says the General, “I became couscious that a negro Witt @ tallow Caudic im his hand scaubing My ics closely, 1 inquired, ‘Woat do you Want, old Maal’ lie auswered, ‘Vey say you is Magda sherman.’ Tanswered thatsuch was the case, aud inquired Whatue wanted. He only wasted tv look ut Me ane kept wattering ‘dis nueger can’s Sweep G68 nigut.’ To Pere appeals irom ihe Soucheruers to rouge aid dolend tueir Dative so:l, bur Sherimaa kepe marching steadily on, “When the soldiers took Milicageville iney organizer @ Legisiature of (heir own had merry pranks. Beauregard called on the Georgians t+ rise for tae deicuce vf their sou, as he was hastening to joa ten. Senator Hui telegraphed from henmond that every citizen wit. lis yun and every Legro With bis spade Could do the work of the sodier, and wemvers of Congr ss leiearapned to assall the juvaver in iront, ‘lauk and rear vy Bight snd by day and let him have no rest At one pvint there were torpedoe he road, and # handsome young ofilcer’s fout blown to pieces, Sherman formed wis pris- juto @0 advance guard, and made them marci at (ve bead of his Cowman aad remove tue torpedoes, Finally on the idit day of December, wbout & Month after the depuriuré irom Atiuat Shei Maw's troops captured Fort McAlister, au hia army Was on the seucuast under the protec. tion of the gius of tue federal army, and with apundant suppiles. THB CAPTURE OF SAVANNAN. We learn irow the memoirs o: Geveral Snerman that 4 Copture «t BavaDoan was uise Dis ows stun Wishes of Ge. erai Grant, A ia e. dis commana that be Would murcn towar i had DOt attacked Hood as was expected; aud Grant, impatient for the contest, Rau thought of gone to Nashvilie in person, but contented lim- well with sending out Logan to relieve Thomas. in | obedience to Sherman's urgency, Grant changed | bis Hiud abOUS eMuATKINE lis LFOops, aNd the re | SUlt Was the Cavture Of bavannan on Mecember 2A | 1864, and an order from Grant to carry out his | own ideas and to march witn bis entire army by Jand. SHERMAN AND STANTON. The ciMfculty between Geveral Sherman and | Secretary Stanton was one the painful events | of the War and to be attributed solely, We thiuk, to the pecullar temperament of the’ two me Stanton paid Sherman @ visit on the ttn of Jan- uury anu ordered ail she cotton to be seat North. By tie orders of Stanton all the mark? were obliterated trom this cottun, whic sae “thought strangely of at the time und even so now.” “for [ain assured,” he says, claims, real and fetitious against this identical co we quantity actually captuted, aud clamatious ,iave been allowed ior more actual quanuty captured—nameiy, Stanton remained with Sherman for some ‘ emingly Very curious about matters aud Uungs in general”? Ue did nol think tnat some of 5 Inan’s generals Nad shown kindness to che new and he comptained of Ge I Jefferson C. Dav Sherman deiended his gene CM LIN LSE UU felva sympathy for the pegroos, bur ‘of a dider- ent sort irom that of Mr. Sianton, whien wos not the power of Lumactty but of politics,” There Was 4 conlerence beiWeen Secretary Stanton and @ delegation of negroes, and among questions addressed to them was this:— wate what is the feeling of the col- | ored people toward = Genera! Sherman, | aad how jar do tuey regard bis sent. | meats and actions as friendly to ineir juterests or otherwise’? fhe answer ‘vas that | they had the Utmost confidence in Shermun ‘asa | man i the providence of Gou set apart specially | to accomplish this work.’ ‘Tnis was certainly a singular interview: and Sherman, commencing upon Ni, says With naive and, we think, pardon- abie Vanliyi—"it certainly was a@ strange fact tiat the great Secretary of War should have cate- chized negroes cuncerning the cuaracter of a | General who had commanded 100,000 men in battle, had captured cities, conducted 69,000 Men success- JULLy across 4,000 miles Of hustile territory aud had jusé brought tena of thousands of treedinen to a pluce of security, But vecause he bad uot loaded down nis army by othgr nundreds of thoussnds of frvedmien negroes it Was coustrued by otners a8 hostile to the black race’? y dim,’? says Gen- | eral Sherman, ‘was to whip the rebeis and numbie ter pride aud lollow them to their inmost recesses to make them fear and dread us. stanton waa not m good neaith, although he appeared robust and strong, he complained a good deal o} internal pains, Woich tnreatened bis ive and Which woula compel him Svon to quite public ollice, He said that the price of everyrhing hac so risen, in com- parison with the depreciated money, that there Was danger of national banxruptcy, aud be av- ealed 10 me as a Soluier and a patriot to hurry | Up Matters 80 as 10 bring the war to a ciose,’? { SUERMAN AND LINCOLN. Then came the marco | ir m Charleston steadily no. Columbia, wurch General Sherman bene bave ogen un accident arising irom the craminal lolly of the Coulederates 4 ting tre to their cotton, When the army reacted Goidsboro Sher- Man too a run up to City Polat wo meet Lincoln, ‘Toe President reuienidered him periectty, aud they engaged im the most interesting conversation. Having made a@ good long social visit, tuey toc their leave and went tu General Grant's quariers, Where Mrs. Grant "ac provided tea, “Watie at the table,’ says Sherman, ‘Mrs. G ti We pad seen Mirs, Lincolu.’? — N tne Genera, “i did not ask and di that f didi not even Know Uiat so Was on board. Mrs. Grant then exclaimed, “Well, youare a pretty pair,” and added that oar lect Was unpardonable, When roe General said Would Cali again the neXt day aad make amends Jor the unintended siignt, Tue next day wey culled, and Mrs, Lincolu, bo was pot weil, did hotsee tuem. General Sherman gives iuii notes Ol bis Conversation With Presiuene Linculy. “or all tue men Lever have met he seemed to possess more of the elemenis of greatuess, combined with poouness, Luan auy Other, When at rest or listen- lny his legs and arms seemed to bang almost iifeieas, aud lis face was cureworn aad haggard; but tue moment he begau to talk Dis lace ligutened ap, 418 tall lorm as it were unfolded, and he was tue Very {mpersonativn uf good humor aud fellowship, The last Worug 4 recall ad addressed to we were that be would ieel better Wheu Lwas back at Goldsboru. We parted at tue gangway of the River Queen wbout noon of Marca 2%, and L never saw him again.” Duriay tals Couversation Geaeral Suerman asked Presigent Lincoln what should be dene to Jefferson Da and e poibical ieagers, ‘As to Jotersun Davis,’ says Shermun, “Air, Lancuin was bardiy at liberty to speak bis tind fully, but intimated that he had better clear Out, escape the Couutry, oniy It Would bot do lor bit to say so Openly, As Usdal Re Mlustrated his meaning by @ story. A Gian Who cuce had taken the Lowl abstinence pledge wien Visiting @ fiend was invited Lo take a drik, but d on the score of his pledge, woed bis {ried suggested lewouade, wmcu Was accepted. lu prepurigy tae jemouade' the iriead puiu'ed to the vraudy bowtie, und said that the lomounde would be more paiatuvie if he were to pour tua little brandy, Aud mis guest sara if he could do so ubvekuown tu bi, be Wouli not object, irom Woleh Midstration | iulerred that Mr. Davis Was to escape Gab Known to im.’ THB sURREN ) THE STANTON QUARREL. ‘The surrender of Lee acd the assassination of Liucola came swi'tl, upon each ower, Sierman lirst Jeatned 4 it 1m a private despatea on wie morning of April iz, He kep. the news quiet wot he had Occasivg ty See General Joseph younston, to discuss tue surrender. "AS avon as Wwe “Wee alone together,” says Sherman, speaking ©! visit to General Jounston, “1 snowed aim the despatch unaouncing MF, Lincoln's ussassination aud Watched him closely. Toe perspirauon came Out in large drops ou bis forebead and ue did uot atiempc (0 couceal Ms distress, He denounced the act asa disgrace to the age, and uoped 1 aid not charge it to the Confederate gov- ernment. [ toid tim { could not believe that be or General Lee cr the ulcers of the Cou- federate army cuuld poss.biy be privy to acts of Assassination, but t Would Not Suy 48 MUCK for Jederson Davis, George sanders, aud men of that itioe, We taiked avout tae edecc of this act on the country at large and the armies, aud Le realized tuat it made my situation extremely deheate.”” Sherman urged upon Juliusron the pro- priety of surreader. Luis the Coufecerate Gen- eral udwitied, saying that any suriner igaung Wouid be murder. Uut of this couversatioa aro. cartel signed bet Ween Jouusvon and Suermau, eral Breckenridge being preseut aud cui thereto. This cartel or basis ui agreement recommend tae restoratioa of the States to their od rights and privileges. Sherman contenned that he, in doing this, nad followed oat tne advice of Mr. Lincoin, and certainly tis imiormation on that suoject justifies this Coaclasion; but Johason Was Presiuent aad te couutry was maddened at tue assassination Oo: tae President, iuere was no ery so loud &&8 that of revenue. Stanton, who, Wii all Dis great qUsiities as aa organizer aud secretary, iad au inperivus, Ungovernanie temper, wod Giapproved sBeruians Carie! aud virsuaily Gisgraced ita bY seuding Grant Co supersede Qiu. Me issued orders to Geverals Soeridap, schofieid aud Wilson, abd Otuer commanders, nut to vvey Sherman’s orders, It was thought that Sherman had been & traitor, and & despatch was pat io circulation, uoder the #ppareut sanction of tae Secretary of War, ww the efect that Jetersou Davis vad escaped with & millon of specie froi Rich@ona backs, with which they hoped to make verms With Sherman or some other commander Jor aM escape to Mexico. It is bard fo realize that so cruei, 50 univunded an accusation coud have been sanctioned by a Cabinet agaist an oil- cero: the distinguished lame aud service of Geu- eral Suermian, Genera: Grant Weut to Norvit Uarolina, cut bebaved with the atmost deilcacy toward General Sue , NOt even appeaniug iu (ue army but allowing Suetman to compiete o1s uder with JOoustou. [he miliioas of specie Jeferson Davis Was carrying south Wagons, turied out io be @ few /housanu apiila. that couid have been carried m a Valige. Sherman came North with nis urmy aod Ooving With rage. “Lu gay,” oe saya, “that! Was merely angry at tue tone iid sudstauce Of this puvlic pr ceeding of tae War Deparciaent could hardly express the state of my toeliugs. | Was outraged Leyouud meas- Ure and Was resoived LO resent the iMsuit, Cost what it woulda.” He declined Haileck’a proi- | rers of frieudship because he had repeated ne orders of siauton over hig own siguature. He refused tu uliow Huileck to review ove of his corps. On reaching Washington he calied on Fresident Johnson, Who took pains to disavow Sian on's War vulletiv. Goueral Grant eadeavored to efect a recouviliat between Saermiu and Stanton, but a8 tue Secretary mave no iriecaiy advances Suefman “resolved to resent what ne consigered am lusult as puvicly as it Was made." HOME AGAIN, “Ou the 24tn of May, 1965, the armies were to be reviewed; Shermau brougnt his wie and her father, the vencrable Tuomas Hwiug, wo see (oe sight. Tae whole army of Georg: vivouacked around the capital ‘the mot of tue 24h of May was extremely a tiful. Puactuaily at wine o'clock, attended 0, Howard aid llis stail, ue rode sioWly dowa the av nue, crowds of men, Women Aud culidvea flocking around kim. As he weared tue brick house ou Lajayetto square ke observed Seward, feevie an bandaged, at one o; the windows, “I muveu says SuctmMan, ‘in that airection and tok of my tat to Mr. Seward, Who Sat at toe Winduw. Le recognized the -alute and returned it, ind thea we burried on steadily, passed tne Presi- dent, saiuting with our swords. All oa b stand arose and acknowledged the salate, Then turning into ¢ ne of the Presidential gtouncs we leit our horses and order- lies and Went upon the stand, where I found Mrs. Sherman, with her fatner and som. Paesiug them Isnook bands with toe Presiaent, Geveral Grant And each Membe. oF the Cabinet. As | approacued Ait. Sianton he ofered we bis hand, bat Idevined it pubuciy, and toe fact Waa oniversuily notived. I then touk my post on “oe jeftof the Presivent, aad for six hours and a hail stood while the army passed. J) Was in my judgment the wost megn a cent army tu existence; 05,000 men in spiendic physique, who had just completed & Muren of | nearly 2,000 miles 1D a hostile country, Vivision ater division passed, eavco commander of | an army corps cumiug on tne stand during | the pavsage o; his command, to & to the President and Cabvinet and the steauiness aud harmontousness of the the cariM) dress on the guides, ihe uniform inte Vals pecween the companies, All eyes were directs frovt, aud the tattered and bullet riven all attracted universa ix hours aaa a lial that | or strony tread of thé urm) of the West resounded along Peonsyivania aveuus; Lot soul Of that vast crowd 0} spectarcra iett its piace, ke When the 8 rear oi the column passed by thuusands of spec favors stil ingered wo ve their eaKe Of Cou. Huence in che st: of the government Wuich Y could Claim #uca Bnracir, ARRESf OF A MURDERER. HIS CAPTUBE EFFECTED BY NEWARK DETEC- TIVES. On the afternoon of the Ist of May John Walker, a middle-aged man, residing 1m the basement ol No. 19 Desbrosses street, became engaged in @ quarrel with his stepsou, Theodore Read, a og man twenty-one years of age. Tae man Watker, it would appear, found fauls with his stepson tor whittling with a pockes Kalle upon @ walking cane, which he claimed belonged to him. Read, in reply, laid @ counter claim to the cane, stating that it had been preseated to him by a friend, and at the same time refusing to secede ta the demand of Walker to hand him the cape. Walker thereupon threatened to thrash Read, and immediately set to work to carry his threat inte execution by making @ blow at the young man, Read, in order to avoid the blow, sprang toward the door for the purpose of opening it and thereby effecting bis escape. At this stage of the proceedings Read’s mother, who was present, attempted to put an end to the quarrel by informing both parties that she would not allow any fighting to take place in her house, Walker, Wio was determined upon have ig a figat, challenged his stepson to come out upon the sidew and settle the quarrel there, Both parties immediately repaired to the sidewalk im front of the house. As soon as Read reached the sidewalk Walker struck him a stun bing blow under tne right ear, almost felling him to the ground, Read retorted by striking Walker in the face, when the iatter clinched him, and While in this position THY SPABBING WAS DONE. In about five minuces after they had reached the sidewalk Walker returned to the house in an ex hausted conaition,:the biood fowing tm large quantities irom several stay wounds ia the right and leit breasts. As but very few persons, if any, witnessed the struggle, the police remamed in ignorance tn regard to the stabbing until about five o'clock tn the afternoon, when Mra, Walker sent word to the Pitth precinct Station house debailing the occurrence, thereby affording her soa sufictent time to make Nis ex pe. Sergeant De Shays was immediately or red to proceed to the spot and make an invest gacion. On als arrival, finding that Walker was int sinking condition, he immediately sent for an any bulance aud nad him sent to the Park Hox pital where he expred on the follow mg Monday. cs Cashman and Ste venus, by ‘order of Captain Caffrey, pros ceeded ‘at once to insttiute a search for Koad, with a view of etlecting his capture. His haunts aud associates weie well kKaown to the ome ry one of them, but , und tiey Visited € Without succ Several days after the death of Saiker the oficers envaged in the search ascers talued the fact raat Read Was somewhere in the y Oltcers Casiman and neigobornood of N Stovens, acting under orders (rom Captala Cailrey, kK nod Cliel Wambold, of the News the services of detective oMcers Haggerty and Murray at their disposal, after a jong and wearisome searet, the Newark oilcers discovered fer man yesterday at work on the iarm of Mr. Jonn W. Kendal, near New vrovidence, N. J. At tie moment of nig cap- ture he was engaged in planting potatoes. Chet Wambold immediately telegraphed the fact of Read's capture to Captain Cafrey, who de- spartched OMcers Cashman und Stevens early yes- terday iorning to secure the prisover and bring him 10 this city. Toe kaife which was made uo of by Read tn tae stabbing effray was found upoa his person, the large piaue COVERED WITH BLOOD STAINS, which he hid been uuable to effice. A HERALD reporter Visited the Filth precinct station house last. evening for the purpose of ascertaining the facts connected with his capture. Torougu the kiuduess of Captaia Cafrey he Was permitted to see and converse with the, prisoner, He was found by the ieRaLp reporter reciiuing upou a Wooden bank in one of the cella oo the ground tier, aud appeared to be quite un- conecerge:. Ue 13 boyisa m appearance, having hardly attained bis twenty-first year, Ov being gnestioned ta regard Co the stapbing ha reNied in ready manner W tne inierrogatories of onr ree porter, In response to an Inquiry 2s to bow the quarrel orivinated he stated that be fe:t innocent aithough he on Of thaterime, “The ‘compelled to defend my ¥ stepfather tureatened, on more than sion, to kil me, My mother 1g a& witness of aud on the afiernoon of May 1 he dees’ drinking neavily; he never did anvihiag cise but drak hquor con- tar » I was perfectly sover, as 1 never driok lauor of any deseripttou. [nave always eave:vored to avoid paving quarrels with my steolttner, because | knew he would har me i be ever obtained the opportun:ty, don’t deny tuat I stabbed Bim, bat it Wag soue in self-delence. eh he clinched me & fel' that I must do something to save myself, and I cut at him wita tue knive 1 had in my gand, For over wyear he pas contioualiy endeavored to get me to quarrel witn him. About ifteem mouths ago Ne sravck MY MOTHER in my presence, Knocking her backward over th stove and seveiely injuring per, Atthe time he held @ large carving kave in tus rignt hand, and, fearing that he migar attempt my mother’s lie, leit the house and se-nreddt the services 0 @ police. man, Wuo arrested him. At the Uume we were iiving in Montgomery stree', Jersey City. He was subsequently brougnt up before Juage B.fman and senteaced to ten days’ confinement in tne coanty jail, Tae tajuries my mother received oa ‘hat occasion Were Of so serious a character that she Was confined to her bed for upward of two weeks, As soon a3 my stepfaiber Was released from coutinement be swore uid take my Iie the v { a chance presented itself, ead Of bis carrying the threat into execu- that wien he challeaged me out to tigns Dig avored to escape; but be prevented na from so doing by Knockiug me dowu as soon as] reacoed the sidewalk.” in regard to the mode of hia escape after the standing took place, le stated that he remained in ts eity until nine O'ciock that same evening, Wheti he crossed over to Jersey Uity and took t quarter past nine o'clock train lor Newark. remained ta Newark watt Suuday aiternoon, woen he Minaged to obtuin a ride on a milk wagon to Summit, N. J. Here ovtained a chance to go to Work as @ farm haud on the farm of # Mr, Kendal, where he was tpally capiared, The UskaLp reporter then a vist to No. 5 Thompso' re the young man’s Mother is at prese ding. She coufirmed the statements made by Reade. Since the death of her hasband she has been compeiled to remove (rom her former resi- deace w dark, squalid-looking aparimenys en tho third foor of No. 5 Thompson street. The hou tu question is Knowa to the police as an “Tialag dive.” Mrs, Walker, when our reporter entered, appeared *o be suifering irom mental depression, and it took her upward of fliteen minutes to cou ject ber thougats, She said t sne deprecated the adair, but that she could not condemn het n entirely, as his siepfatuer lad made repeated AtieMpts, LOt LO Mention threats, to take her son's le, Reade will be brought before the Coroner this morning. COUNTING THE PEOPLE. THE SECRETARY OF STATE SEEKS THE CO-OPERAs TION OF CITIZENS TO INSURE ACCURACY. The following letter from the Secretary of State, Diearica Wulera, Jr., explains eel :— ALBANY, May 10, 1875. Dear Sin—I am exceedingly anxioas that the State censas to be taken duriig tue present ye he takea wth great accuracy and care, and thal it be in all resvects a fair abd Nonest enumeratio: votn a8 to populations and statistics covertog & Several tucustries, resources, &c., of tae Stare. To ris end | ues.re in Your city, a8 else Ther the co-operation anu -upport of all good cttize ln euabiing me to carry on the work during tne ensuing Monta of June. ihe Stale Censas law makes NO provisions for the appuiatment or Compeneatioa Of local agent@ in cities to supervise th: work of thy Appointed ior each @.ecuoa district. fore, left without power to appolut supervising ageits, With compensation for services, L have doubliess the power 10 appot TA. Ub CoMpensntion, LO give some supor aud directious to (be enumerator, aod to act of benul! Of the Stave, There are im your city many geutiemen of lets Ure dud amie pecumary mWweans, some of woom represeas societies Wuied fave & Special interest not oa.y in @ correct eoumetation of population, but aiso in the cvilection of statistics rotating the ars and ences, Vi Woo Will doubtless ve willing Weeks Wuen tie Work o| enumera ted ts if Pp ov tess (Oo give Bowe littie attention, in & Waru, Assemb.y Or Senate district, 1o the mane Her id Which tue work 1s dome vy the enumera tors, aud aavise with them as to their datics, Sud, 1 Recessarg, Tepors to me aay negiect of duty or O@)vial miscOMduct. i, irom your large acquaintance in New York city, you can furnish me the Dames of any puvlit epirited gen jemen, as ab ve suzgesied, Wuo wu Assume (0 aid this vreat WORK Withoul colmpensa ton t wii be pi ed w sect from tier number &ad dive such a8 you may recommend @ letter ol Appointment, Yours, very respectimiy, DIKDIUCH WHLLBRS, Jts Dr. THEODORB MigRsoN, Now Yor city. ARRIVALS AT JEROME PARK. There arrived at Jerome Park on Taesday after Noon the following herses, comprising Mr. Jone Coffee's string in training :— B, P. Carver, or. b., 6 yours, by. nening. Nottie Norton, br. mM, 4 Years, by Leamiugtom. idu Wola, b. i, 4 years, by Leamingtoa. Donnydrook, 6 yours, by Lang. Three-year-old, by Pantie, ‘Tro-yoat-oia (two), bY Panis