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* a unieipal districts of the parish Tecifiie Thirteeoth, Fourteenth, Six- | Seventeenth wards, should be counted as cast sh of Orleans, wider au of ti natitution of the State of 1 of act No, 71 of the session of anys. cppgeven Mare’ 23, 1874. All of whien is respectfully eabasitt Governor WrLua—As this question involves the city, federal and local Stare governments, the Hoard betore taking it 1010 consideration desire to hear ihe counsel 9 apd con. upon the subject. They have fixed this ‘and we will give each side one hour for argument, . James R. Walker then opened the argument on the protest for the republicans, and was followed by Colonel Zacharie for the democrats, RAST KATON ROUGE. The East Baton Rouge cuse was called up. Th Ddoxes from seven polls, iu which the Commissioner's Teturus and taily sheets had been locked up oither by error or design, were brought before the Board that they might be opened to obtain the result of the elec- tion at those polls, the parish sapervisor having omitted any mention of them im is consolidated Statement After a jong discussion the Roard deci Rot to open the boxes or consider any statement ag the vote other than that received irom the Supervisor, Similar action was taken in the case of Tangipadoa, where the vole of one poll was not re- turned by the Supervisor. By this action « the democrats lose 1,136 votes jn East Baton Ronge, No more witnesses will be heard. All tuter- rogatories, answers, kc, must be filed before four o'clock YP. M. on Friday On Tuesday morning it 18 understood that the electoral vote and so the yote of the Stat will be promul- gated The members of the Board think that the game testimony applies to the State vote which applies to the elcctorai vote. The Soard adjourned till ten A, M. to-morrow, What ixewe exrites Pennaylvania or Neve York, or what will renilt from the ambition of any man, howreer famous, or uny party, luncerer strom, ave of little value compared with the graver Questions now comnvinding our attention.” TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. ADDBESS OF THE CLERGY AND PROMINENT CITIZENS OF LOUISIANA ON THE CONDITION OF AFFAIuS IN THE STATE, New Onvxans, Nov. 20, 1876, The following aldress nas just been issucd :— New Onrveana, Nov. 30, 1876, To Ovk Fseutow Cirizens ov THe UNITED Starse:— Jo the present crisis of public ailuira the under- signed citizens of Louisiana, not office-holders nor ice-seekers and consulting with none of the class krown as politicians, believe that they are only pers forming a daty as citizens of their own State and of cur common country in setting before their fellow citizens vf other States, without distinc. tion of Lag the following considerations. They are moved to their present action because they believe that in the pass much harm hus come, and that in the presen: grave danger threatens from the imtsunder- Btandings between fellow c: induced and jos- tered by men whose trade is poiitics and whose aims are hed only by arraying section agatust sec- tion and race aguipst race, Under these misunderstandings the State of Louis- jana bas for years suifered grievous wrongs. The Datural and American sense of justice and lair play io bheir fellow citizens of other States has be'en so de- ecived by the misrepresentations of interested persons that Americans have been silent while their brethren, the people of Louisiana, bave suffered under misgovernment und a tyranny which hag searcely been paralleled in our days in any civilized land. We have seen the disorganization of society resulting from the arraying of race agai by political adventuro:s; we have seen the iner pubhe debis and the burden of taxation continually growing, while the public funds havo been stolen or squandered; wo baye eon the steady decay of all the ekments of prosperity, confidence and credit, which should, exist m a civilized State, ‘twico the pedple of Louisiana have in the exercise of their constitutional rights at the polls rid themseives of the incubus of a bad government, and twice that government has been fastened upon them agaig by the power of the general government, while its unconstitutional and usurped character was openly couiessed m the very act, Once more they have con- demned this usurpation at the polls, and now that the interests involved are not of Louisiana alone, but those of the whole country, and that the destiny not of this Suite, but of the nation, is in the hands of certwin polit- ical oticers here, and all are bound in one bundie, it seoms a duty imperative for the country’s sake as well as tor tho States, for these whe have the good of both at heart, to prevent, a8 far as they may, wrong being done or suffered through misapproheusions. Aad First—It is our deliberate conviction that Louisiana is as loyal to the Union as any Stato within it, nd--The people of Louisiana accept in good faith the statas in which the war left the colored peo- ple. Third—They desire that white and colored sould live together in peace and harmony. That only, they are convinced, 18 the way to prosperity. Tho white people of the State have no wish to abridge a single right which the law gives to their colored fellow citi- zens. Fourth—They believe that the late canvass and election were conducted as peaceably in Louisiana as In any sister State. ‘ijth—They know that large numbers of colored voters changed their political associations under tho growing conviction that the interests of the black man and the white in Louisiana are identical; that the burdens of misgovernment must fall on all classos, gnd finally most heavily on the laboring class, an especially wore they moved to such change by the em- bezzlement by those in power of the public funds ap- propriated to the education of their cbiidrea, Sizth—They believe with the people of the whole Btate that a large majority of honest votes was cast in _— of the so-called democratic conservative candi- Les, t ‘Seventh—While the people of Louisiana are glad to receive among them the officers and soidiers of the United States Army for all constitutional purposes of defence, they deprecate the tmpression produced on iF fellow citizens and the great injury done to the 138 interests of Louisiana, and especially to those of this city, by hasty military proclamations, and the sending hgber of troops and gene: s it there were \p some contingency danger of an outbreak; for, what- tver be the issue in tho present crisis, the people of Louisiana will not seek to change it bat by peaceiul end lawful meane It w no longer their question lone, but that of the whole country, Into the settie- ment of the question should come no mis- take or misapprehension about their actions or purposes. The question now for the State and nation is that the State is im the hands of an organization self-perpetuating, close corporation, absolutely superior to the Jaws of this State; av organization already convicied of fraud in previous State canvaeses; which 1s irresponsible to law and public opinion here; an organization used for the vilest purpsses of usurpation and misgovernment hitherto in Louisiana. Iv is for our feilow citizens of pther States, who have allowed—we doubt not with bonest though mistaken intentions—such an organiza- hon, subversive of all repubncan government, to be fasteved upon Louista in her distress, who are thereioro responsible for it, and who now find St holding the peace and prosperity of the whole country im its hands, to bring to bear upon i% such moral force as will, it possible, secure its honest action in this grave crisis. But in bringing such moral force to bear wo appeal to our fellow citizens throughout the country to Iree them- yelves from any notion that in the crushed, misgov- erned and suffering State of Louisiana, there js any purpose save to calmiy bear and patiently wait the issuo under the Jaw and the constitution. In our con- dition, with a mere mockery of a representative gov- ‘nment, we are utterly powerless to help ourselves, and our appeal, therefore, 18 to the love of coustita- tional liberty, to the enlightened good sense and right feeling of the American people of all parties, and to the Great Ruler of the nation. HUGH MILLER THOMPSON, Rector of Trinity church. G RAYMOND, V. G., Admini: tor of the Archdio- oexe of Now Orleans. ANT. J. JOURDAN, 8. J., Pastor of the Immaculate Conception church, . M. PALMER, Pastor First Presbyterian church, JAMES K. GUTHEIM, Rabbi of Tempie Sinat. THOMAS A, ADAMS, President Croscent Mutual In- surance Company SAMUEL H. KENNEDY, President State National Bank. GEORGE JONAS, President Canal Bank, K. Q. MALLARD, Pastor of Prytanee strect Presby- terin ehur }. MORRIS, President Hibernia Nationa! Bank. 3 J. DAY, President Sun Insurance Company. YES, President New Orleans Insurance Com- ny. Phare MUSSON, President Now Orleans Insurance Assoctation. G. GAINES, President Citizens’ Bank, * JOHN B, LAFITTR. GEORGE 0, SWEET. J. @. IRBY. THOMAS LAYTON. JOUN PHELPS, WILLIAM F, HALSE’ “An oceasional worshipper of power an- nounces in a truculent manner that we have found a new Washington, and that we must keep him.” OPINIONS OF UTICA STATESMEN. | BENATOR CONKLING RETICENT—GOVERNOR SEY- MOUR AND SENATOR KERNAN CONFIDENT OF A PEACEABLE SOLUTION OF EXISTING DIFFI- CULTIES. ("x TELEGRAPH TO ait HERALD.) Urica, N. Y., Nov. 80, 1876, jo chief topic of conversation on the streets of Utica this morning was the leader in yesterday's Hxeacp on the situation tn Soath Carolina, ‘The de- ented stand taken in the views therein expressed, to- gether with tho fair and just explanation of tho posi- tion of affairs at Columbia on the assembling of the Legislature and of the illegal interference of troops, girikes every fair-minded man of both parties as a very calm and impartial view of the case, The reviow of the President's action in sending military help to organize the Legislature where no puch ald was necessary, bis noconstitational actionon 8 former vccasion, his seif-condemnation and ac. kuowledgement of error, together with the suggestion that the House of Representatives do its duty in the premises by his Impeachment, has created a decided sensation, Thiscity being the home of three of the Mosteminent men inthe country, together with a NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1876.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. Jarge nomber of able men of both political parties much interest is of courso folt in tho present state of aflairs, BENATOR COXKLING, Senator Conkling has improved in health of late, though far from being (fully restored, and starts to-day for Washington, which will be the field, a edly, of the flercest battle yet fought in the present politi- cal contest In ap interview with him had by your correspondent he declined to say anyibing regarding the present political situation. SENATOR KERNAN. In a conversation | had with Senator Kernan he said the action of the Unitea States military at Columbia ossly arbitrary and unjust, and to tts ence acted Without reason and in direct violation of what seems to every tar minded man to be required by the exigencies of the occasion. He tully comcided with the HkKAaLD as to & rbitrary interference of troops, but was very confident that order would be re- stored and in the end thas the right would provail. GOVERNOR SEYMOUR, Governor Seymour 16 of the opinion that the present agitation, if 14 does not Lend to violence, will be a great lesson to the Ameriean people; will teach them the necessity of perfect obedience to law in the future, re spect tur the popnlar will as expressed by the ballot, and the Way 10 mect and overcome grave difficul Without resort to harsh measures, and will prove to the world at large the superiority of our form of government and the capability of our people to govern themselves, There is no need of apprehension as to the final adjustment of the preseut condition of things, if all will do what they can to restore quiet and good order attheSouth, As the peopie of ail sections of our broad laud desire only that which will give to therm their proper rights, and $f both parties will ase for- benrance and counse! moderation, all will in the end come right and the will of the people will be the law of the | Ii the state of bid health wilh permit no oto Albany to attend the Electoral College on Tuesday next, wva may possibly give bis views on that occasion, Should he do so bis opinions will be listened to with cagernes# by the thousands who look to the Governor for iniormation and wisdom respect- ing all questions of national importance. VIEWS OF PROMINENT LEADERS. T have conversed with many of sae prominent lead- ers of both potitical parties in this victnity, and they all agree geverally that affairs will be scttied amicably, though democrats cannot reirain from condemuing the present courso of the administration and what the regard as the untairness and gross injustics the democracy of the South are treated in the present cunvass, Muny honest and conscientious republicans cagnot conceui their disgust with the action of their party leaders, and in some instances I have heard them and their policy deprecated in the severest man- ner, “Uf this question of Casariem continues to assume a menacing aapect we shall have an isnue more dificult to dectde and more easential in its proper determination to the nationat liberties than any that has gone before.” RIFLE OOTING. {sy TeLzonarn To THE HREALD.] Newroart, KR. 1., Nov. 80, 1876. There was somo excellent amatour rifle shooting here to-day, Tho first match was turadouble acting re- volver, at 200 yards, The following is THE SOORS. Name * Score, Total, C. H, Totten 958444 5-25) Harry Bull. 433443 3-24 L, R. Blackman 43443434 S8434 23 $4238 4-21 4523 43-26 44455 43344 4—25 44000 16 R444 4 4-26 4002014—-12 Second and third were moncy prizes, The next match was for a gold marksman’s badge, 200 yarus, ten shots; position, off hand. Tho follow- ing ia THE SCORE. Name. Score, Total, E. H. Totten. 8444445433 —38 Harry Bull, 6343445543 —40 Carl Riegel. 4343333444 —35 M. Farrow. 03844444445 -36 R. H. Powel, 0443404434 —30 C. M. Powel. -34035033 3 Retired J.B, Brightman, 4343344000 —2 H, W. Powel.... 44554384435 —4L W. R Landers... 5042345434 —H W. M, Farrow,.... 2540643350 —al M. Bull..... 3434444244 —36 This was followed by & group maten, distance 150 yards, ninetecn shots, smallest group to win. The first prize, an improved air rifle, was wou by Mr. W. M. Farrow, and the second, a moncy prize, was won by Harry Bail, “When we see what we see in France and Spain and Italy it is well to pause and apply to our own conditions of national life the problems there seeking sol ution.”” PIGEON SHOOTING. THE LONG ISLAND SHOOTING CLUB. Alarge number of the members of the Long Island Shooting Club assembled yesterday on the club grounds, at Dexter’s, on the Jamaica plank road, to try their skillat shooting and also to secure for themselves dessert to their Thankegiv.ng turkey in the shape of a pigeon potpic, The first shoot was a sweepstake of $45, for which thero wero nine entries at $5 cach, to shoot at seven birds, That was followed by a match for 320 ide, and swoepstakes for small amounts filled up the remainder of the afiernoon, The following is tho score of the first two contests Grovuxvs oy Tut Loxe Istanp Suootixe Cion, Dex- TeR’s, JAMAICA PLaNk Roap, L. 1,—Sweepstako $45; entry, $5; to be shot at 7 birds each; 25 yards rise, 80 yards boundary; 144 oz shot. Long island rules, Killed, Missed, Poliiy 6 1 110011 5 2 100011 4 Fy 101100 4 Fy Clover....... 100111 4 3 Raain, o10110 38 4 Brown 0 1 oF Harris, 0 oF Gutherby. 0 of *Fell dand out of bounds. +Withdrow. Match, $10 a side, to shoot at 7 birds, H and T traps; 35 yards rise, 80 yards boundary. Levi... Clover. wool 6 1 Several other sweepstakes closed the afternoon's sport, Long Island rules. wed, Missed. OBITUARY. GEORJE DAWSON, EDITOR AND LECTURER, The cable this morning announces the death of George Dawson, the talented Unitarian preacher and popular lecturer, Mr, Dawson was born in 1821, in the parish of St Pancras, London. After receiving his education from his father, bho proceeded to the University of Glasgow and took the degree of M.A, He was intended for the ministry of the Baptist Nonconformists, and having remained at home some time, an opening occurred at Birmipgbam in 1844, when he became minister of Mount Zion Chapel in that town. The peculiarities of bis ministra- tions, and chietly a disregard of the merely couven- tional usages of the sacred office, alionated from bim a portion of the congregation oi Mount in chapel, and separation took place, when the majority seceded with the minist A Subscription was immediately begun for the erection of a new chape! for Mr. Dawsi and in Angust, 1847, the edifice was opened a “The Church of the Saviour.”” Mr. Dawson did not advocate peculiarities of doctrine, but rather made an enrnest desire for trath, and a life of obedience to God and charity to man, the great tests of a Christian spirit, He was better known asa literary lecturer than A$ @ proacher, and in this capacity aitained pop- ularity. He wrote litt but was the re- puted author of a series of articles which appeared inthe Birmingham Daily Press, news- paper ot which he was the principal proprictor, and which bas ceased to exist. At the request of tho cor- | poration, Mr, Dawson delivered the inaugural address, since published, at the opening of the Free Reference library in Birmingham, Ociover 26, 1866, Mr. Duw- son wag also lung a member of tho Birmingham School Board. On January 2, 1871, a hbveral daily paper called the Birmingham Morning News appeared, which Mr. Dawson was editor. Ho preached in New York a year ago. EX-GOVERNOR 0. D, RICHARDSON, Hon. 0. D, Richardson, formerly Governor of Ne- braska, died at his residence in Omaha on Wednesday night, aged eighty-one years. M, RITCHI, PHILOLOGIBST. Tho German journal jounes the death of M. Kitchi, one of the philologists of that country, and Professor of tho University of Leipzig, M, LUIGI SETTEMBRINI. The death 1s announced of M. Luigt Settembrint anthor of the ‘History of Italinn Literature,” and writer of the protest which was the signal for the in- surrection against the Bourbons of Napivs in 1848, “But shall we have a republican form of government f°? A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE. Tho boatman William Redmond, of Albany, arrested by OMcer Scanian, of the Ninth precinct, on Wednes- day ovening for attempted outrage, was arraigned be- tore Jadge Bixby at the Washington Place Court yos- terday morning. The complainant, Bridget Kearney, @ pour servant girl, living at No, 240 West Sixteenth sireel, testified that the prisoner decoyed her into the eavin of the jumber barge Sara Austin and there as. saulred ber. Officer Scanian swore that he heard the woman's cries jor heip, and on entering tue cabia of bout found her biveding from several wounds in eh d her clothes torn from her person. Judge Bixby committed the prisoner, who refused tomeke apy statoment, for trial in deiauit of $2,000 bail i flag, MRENZIES VICTORY. Details of the Fieree Cavalry Fight at Dull Knife’s Village. TWO HUNDRED TEPEES DESTROYED An Indian Fastness in a Deep Ravine Carried by Assault. MAGNIFICENT BRAVERY. The Troops March all Night to Fight ail Day Without Food. THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. {ey TELFonarn To THE HERALD.) Caxr on Nout Fork Powprn River, Sunday, Nov. 26, via Fort Fetrexman, Wrouixa Tereitoay, Nov. 30, 1876 Yesterday 1 despatched by two Indian couricrs a brief account of a fight thon progressing between two battalions of cavalry, of the Powder River expedition with about 320 of the cnlisted Indians, under Genoral Mackenzie, and a hostile Cheyenne band, whose villnge was attacked by him at daybreak tn a canon in the Big Horn mountaina The Ognt ended shortly after the couriers loft the scene of the action, and pow! can s¢nd you a more compicte account gt tho battle. THB MARCH OF TaR ‘‘HOSTILES."’ When the expedition left Old Fort Reno the tu- tention was to strike Crazy Horse’s village, then undorstood to be located, on the Rose- bud River, near the battiefleld of June 17. The morning after arriving at Crazy Woman's Fork, Sitting Roar, a messenger sent out by General Mackenzie, just before he left Red Cloud to warn the Inalan bands then out that they must come into their agencies or fight, arrived in our company with a white and told us that a band of Cheyennes, im five lodges, camped route to Crazy Woman, having heard of our approacn, had left for Crazy Horse’s village. Then General Crook determined to send the two battalions of cay- alry with his command and the Indian scouts to look for a Cheyenno village which he bad heard was located the Big Horn Mountains, south. wost our camp He first sent out fourteen Pawnee and Shoshone scouts to locate the Indian camp. During Thursday and until noon of Friday we travelied along the base of the mountains, having made, up to that time, about thirty miles. in a canyon near our in of Meanwhile some Sioux and Arapahoe scouts who had eon sent abead on Thursday might returned and said they had found the camp, 4 HARD NIGHT'S WORK. Instantly @ night march was ordered, and after a three hours’ rest we started for the camp. Our Indiana sald we could reach the’ camp by midnight, but we found the trail so difficult to follow on account of the broken nature of the ground, that it tébk us until daylight to reach the mouth of the Canen, where the village stood. DULL-KNIFE’S FORMIDABLE PASTNESS. This canyon is about four miles long, and varies in width from a quarter ofa mile toa mile from base to base of its walls, and twice those distances from crest tocrest. Itiscutup and intersected throughout by scores of ravines, from five to fifty feet deep. The direction of the main canyon is about cast and west, and the North Fork of the Powdor River winds through !t along the south side. Its west- ern end terminates in an irregular range of flat hills, and thore are rocky and brushy patches on the sides of the canyon, and bluffs rising abruptly from tho bot- tom, at several points within short distances of the Indian camp. Our information of THE STRENGTH OF THE INDIANS and the exact location of their tepees was very meagre. Our scouts knew where the village was, and had seen a dozen or more lodges and agreat many ponies, and that was all they knew. A runner, sent ahead just a8 we entered tho canyon, came back to say that the bucks were DANCING THE WAR DANCE in four places, It now seemed impossible to enter the village without alarming the inmates. All our Indian allies, undor Lieutenant W. P. Clark, Second cavalry, were sent to the front as specdily'as possible. ATTACKING IN THE DARK, The column was closed up after crossing three or four deep ravines dismantled, and the order was given to ebarge, about two miles inside of the mouth of the canyon, The head of the columa proper was now within about a milo of the village, with our Indians raoged irregularly ahead and on both flanks. Although we gave our horses rein and spur, our progress was comparatively slow in consequence of the roughness of tho country throvgh which we wore moving. MELTING OF HOSTILE INDIANS. We had not gone far when our Indians commenced howling and blowing on hideous voiced wind instra- ments, and tho ,Indians in tho village, some of whom were still awake and at their war dance, sounded the alarm on a drum, and commenced shooting from their lodges at tho advancing column. The Shoshones, led by Lieutenant Schuyler, aide-de-camp to General Crook, clambered up the hills on the south side of tho caynon, and galloped along throngh a drigk firo to the highest point of tho bluff opposite ana overlooking the village. Here they immediately in- trenched themselves, and remained throughoas the day and ail night. Tho Pawneos, Arapahoes and Sioux went through tho centre of the caynon, and SWEPT THE VILLAGE and captured two or threo herds of ponies, Sudden as was the attack, the “hostilos’’ continued to dash into the ravines and creep bebind the eon- venient bluffs, rocks ond bushed, where they fortified themselves to await until the soldiers rasbed in. Day had not broken sufficiently to fully discovor their movementg to ug, but the bulk of our advascing col- umn gave them an excellent chance to fire at us with tolling effect, DRATH OF TUR BRAVE M’KBNXXBY. At was then that Licutensst McKinney, commanding Company M ofthe Fourth cavalry, tho last company of tho first battalion, foil, shot in tho head and body by a yolley, behind a ridge, where he had bosn ordered 40 piace his company. When falling ho cried to his men, “Get vack from this place, you are ambushoa,”’ and then oxelaimed just alter, “Oh! my poor mother! Tel! her! Tell hor!” DESPERATE STRUGGLE FOR A POSITION, His moz fod trom the fatal spot, but immediately | | passed across this plain soveral times during the fight, rushed back again apd swept the savages trom the ravine, Killing about 4 dozen of them and holding the Position which they bad becn ordered to take. Nearly sll of our men who were killed outright fell | in their frat dash or from reckless exposure a(terward, WELL ARMED CRRTENNE SHARISHOOTRRS. Several of tho soldiers were wounded during the fight by ballots from hostiles posted at a distance beyond the reach of their carbine balls, most of the Indians having tho leng range infantry gua, AN CxEQUAL coyTast. A Velobing Gre was kopt up by tbe soldiers for some hours, while the hostiles dre¢ with extreme caution, They bed crawled into tne mavy caves in the rocky sides of the canyon, other were lying down im the dark ravines, while many wero riding round on the fiat hills atthe end of tho | canyon, having the advantoge of us in all pot numbers so far as wo then knew, @00D conpucT oF TUR TROOPS, no little cooiness and bravery in dislodgng sinall partics from advantageous points, and ha¢ some thrilling fights at General Meckenzic's command discovers close quarters, They had no cowards to encounter in the Cheyennes, some of whom scemed to court death by their reckless dashos, About eleven o'clock the heavy firing was checked oa our side. Meanwhile the hostilea were teking their families through the ruvines to tho hilis, and firing from all points at once to defend them and revenge themsclres for the capture of thoir ponies and the loss of their village, alreacy set on fire, They erept cautiously from one point to another, as their retreat exposed them to our guns and we found eta, fortifying thom: shelter trom their bi they moved about UXDER & FIBRCB IRR, Most of their guns covered a little plain lying be- tween the village and a red bin under the crest of the 1 mountain forming the north wall of the canyon. with General Mackonzio and stad, and the fire was in- variably concontrated op us. As wocrossed once I had A LIVELY Rack, and, though a man and horse about ten yacds ahead of me toppled over, I passed through safely. NO TIMR FO BAT. This was about one o’clock in the alternoon, and we bad not bad anything to cat since three o'clock of the Previous afternoou, About four o'clock tho volleys grew tewer, and some of the mon got achanee to go to the pack train, which bad ar- rived meanwhile, and get a bite, By sundown ail was quiet, FORCE OF TNE HostiLEs. A count of tho tepees after tho Aight showed that the villago had contained between 180 and 200, and the warricrs are estimated at between 400 and 500, General Mackenzio reports twen-five Indians killed, but fully Mfty must have fallen, OUR Losses. Our killed numbers six and our wounded tweaty- five, ‘ MEMENTORS OF THE CUSTER MASSACRE. In tho captured Tepees were found several articles showicg, beyond dount, that the Cheyennes of this village were in the Custer massacre and the Rosebud fight. SPOILS OF VICTORY. We have captured abvut 500 ponies and totally destroyed all tho Tepees and most of their contents, including the supply dried meat, Bosides what was destroyed, over fifty pack horses wero loaded with buffalo robes, &c., taken from the lodges by our enlisted Indians A quantity of ammnnition which the hostiles had no time to take off with them was also destroyed. DULL KNIFR’S SONS SLAIN. Among the Indian dead were saia to be three sons of Dall Knife, one of the leading warriors of the Chey- ennes, who was heard on the blufls encouraging his men to be brave during the fight A WHITE DECOY FLAG Several times, while {tho battle was in progress, a white flag was shown from the crest of the mountain on the south, but it would be withdrawn immediately after, and a volley would follow its exhibition, After the fight i was shown again, on the bills at the head of the caniion, and some interpre- ters were sent out to talk with tho Indiana. They said, however, they would not surrender now, thata heap of their men had been killed and the rest were READY TO Dix. Tho interpreters returned, and we expected a night winter's ot {th attack, bat were not disturbed. We left the canyon to-day, and are now camped about cight miles away, on our return toward the supply camp at Crazy Woman. This is considered by experienced officers to havo been the most hotly contested Indian fight for ycars for the numbers engaged on the other side, THE DEAD OFFICER. Lieutenant McKenny was a graduate from Wost Point in 1871, Ho was a native of Memphis, Tenn., whero his mother resides, He was a fine soldier, dis- tinguished for bis manliness and bravery and beloved by all his comrades, who sincorely regrct his death. KILLED AND WOUNDED. The following are the casualties trom this well fought action:— BILLED. Lieutenant Johm A. McKinney, Fourth cavalry, commanding company M. Corporal Ryan, D company, Fourth cavalry. Private Sullivan, 6 company, Fourth cavalry, Private Beard, D compasy, Fourth cavairy, Priva:e Keiler, EK company, Fourth cavalry, wouxpap. Corporal Lynn, M company, Fourth cavalry, Private Back, E company, Fourth cavalry. Corporal Rode, I Company, Fourth cavalry. Private Hickey, Company H, Fifth cavalry, Corporal Cunningham, Company H, Third cavalry, Private Fillmodge, Company H, Third cavalry. Private Strecht, Company E, Fourth cavalry. Private MeGwin, Company M, Fourth cavalry. Private Folsom, Company H, Fifth cavalry. Sergeant Forsyth, Company M, Fourth Cavalry, Private MeMahon, Company W, Fourth cavairy. Private Fitzgerald, Company D, Fourth cavairy, Private McFarland, Company L, Fifth cavalry, Corporal Jacob, Company I, Fourth eavalr, Privave W. Herman, Company 1, Fourth cavalry, Private Kearney, company I, Fourth cavairy. Private H. lierman, company HM, Third cavalry. Private Smith, company 8, Fourth cavalry, Frivate Stearns, company I, Fourth cavalry. Abusan Shoshone, Indian, Private Reardon, Company M, Fourth cavalry. Private Hagan, Company H, Fourth cavalry. Private Thompson, Company ¥, Fourth cavairy. Pri 0 lvison, Company M, Fourth cavalry, DESTITOTION OF THX BOSTILES. The hostiles are now without food or shelter, and almost naked, inthe hills, ‘Thi morning they killed | six horses for food. The weather is growing colder aK abd « heavy enow storm is gathering overhead. What deme rxvites Peunayleania or New York, or what tetil remit srom the conhition of any man, however famous, or any party, however stron, are of Mitte value compared with the grace questions now commanding our attention " A | secution for conscience sake, are peculiarly entitled to RELIGIOUS. LIBERTY. Unveiling of the Jewish Memorial Monn- ; ment in Fairmount Park. A MAGNIFICENT TRIBUTE TO FREE AMERICA | } An Interesting Commemorative Service—Dedi- \ cation by the Benai-Berith—The Speeches and Ceremonies, Pmtaprumia, Noy. 30, 1876, The beantifal memorial in which the Hebrews of the United States have gracetully sought to express their admiration for that religious freedom which 1s ove of the great foundation stones of the gepudlic was | to-day unvetled and dedicated with ceromonies of peculiar interest The idea has been in process of | consummation for a long time past, mainly under | the guidance of the great Jewish beneficial society, the Independent Order Benai-Berith, and tt Was the intention to have had the monument completed long since; bat it was, atter all, most fitting and appro- | priate that the national day of thanksgiving and praise | should have witnessed the bestowal of this grateful tribute to the broad principlos of universal toleration, whick 1s the proud boast of America, a testimonial the more valuable and interesting because it is the fret time in the history of nations that such a ceremony bas taken place, District Grovd Lodge, No. 8, of Philadelpni the part of hosts for the day, and entertaived the visit- | ing members of the order, Honia Berith and other in- vited guests, who participated in to-day’s exercises, The rendezvous was at the Centennial depot of the | Pennsylvania Railroad, just outside the Exhibition grounds, at noon, At that hour about 400 members of the order and guosts had assembled, There wero no lodges present as organizations from outside this city, but many individual members were here who had come trom New York, Baltimore, Washington and Cincinnati, The Committee of Arrangements, in addl- ton to the resident Centennial Committee, were Messrs, Siinon Kahn, M. C. Hirsch, Samuel Weil, Julius Baumgarten ana M. M. Bayersdorter, At about half- past twelve acted | TUR PROCESSION was forined and marched into the Exhibition grounds along Belmont avenue to where the veiled monument Stood, facing tho Columbus statue, The order of the procession was as foliows:—McClurg’s Liberty Cornet Band; Mr % Simpson, boaring tne ‘national i » Samuel Weil, Chiet Marayai; Dr. Judah Isaacs and Mr, Isaac Joseph, 1 Aids; the members ot the L 0. Benai Bersih; members of | Instrict Grand Lodge, No. 3,1 0. B B.; officers of Grand Lodges ot the order; ollicers of Dietriet Grand ¢, No. 3; Court of Appeals ot tue L, 0. Benai-Be- | Executive Commitiee of tho lL. 0. Benai-Berth; invited guests; Centeuntal Committee of the Order; Hon. Horatio Gates Jones, attended by Rev. George Jacobs and Alfrod T. Jones, Local Centennial Commit- tee; the sculptor, M. Exckial, and Adolph 1. Sanger, Chairman Centennial Committee; M. Ellinger, Secre- tary of tue Exceutive Committes of the Order, THX CEREMONIES. Arrived at the monument, in front of which a plat- form had been erected, several hundred persons were found assembled, among them Generat Hawley, Presi- dent of the Centennial Commission; the Rey, Dr. Ma- goon, of tho Baptist Church, aud others, Atier preliminary music’ by the band, the Rev. George Jacobs delivered the invocation. Mr. 8. Kohu, President of D. G. L. No. 3, the presid- ing officer of the exercises, thon delivered a brief ad- dress of welcome, in which he said that it was ® happy. illustration of the national spirit they were about com- memorating to see so many gentiles and strangers among tho Jews present. THR UNVEILING. After tho “Star Spangled Banner” bad been played, Mr. M. Ezekiel, as sculptor of the memorial, presented tho statue to Mr. A. L. Sanger, chairman of the Cen- tennial Committee, in a very briel speech, in which ho said that he had faithfully and gratefully fulfilled tbe commission entrusted to him to the best of hig ability, and begged the committes to allow his work to speak for hin. The statue was then unveiled, and while the band played patnotic airs tho assembinge expressed their admiration of the artist's work by their long continued and hearty appiause. ‘ RELIGIONS LIBERTY, The statue is eleven feet in height and comprises three igures. The principal figure 1s a woman, repre- senting the Goddess of Liberty. Sho i dressed ina cout of mail and mantie, and on her breast is a shield with the American flag wp relief, On her head is the Phrygian cap. The stars on the cap, thirteen in number, are of solid gold. Her left hand roste upon the fasces, the scroil of the constitution and a wreath of laurel. Her right hand 1s extended in gesture, waving off all interierence. faith ts sym- bolized by a nude bey standing on the right, and partly sbeitered by Liberty. His head and one hand are lifted appealingly to Heaven, aud im the other hand he holds a vessel, in which 18 burning the undying flame of religion, Intolerance is _repre- sented by a mongtrous serpent, the body of w 18 coiled partly around the fasces, and extends to the rear of the group, umf protruding from under the garment of Liberty. With its talons buried deep in the neck of lotolerance is an eagie. This the iargest group which has been mado d proseat century. cost $20,000, MR, PANGER'S ADDRESS. Mr. Sanger’s speech, accepting toe work and in tarn tendering it to the Order, was very effective and in- teresting. It was as follow: At tho last Convention of tho Independent Order B'nai Berith, held at Chicago, in the month of Janu- ary, 1874, a resclution was adopted, by which the Order decided that, under 8 supervision and management, a piece of statuary should be unveiled on the handredth anniversary of American independence, in commemoration of religious lib- erty. Mindful that one of the missions undetiaken by the Order was to develop and elevate the mental and moral character of our race by a Hberal support of science and art, and the inculcation of the holiest and purest principles of philanthropy, honor and patriot. tue is ing the It is thirteen tons im weigut and ism, the Convention properiy assumed the duly of giving eflect to a sentiment, not only inherent to the Israely of America but universal 8 among all peeple of enlightenment. We believed that the recoguition of the principle of roligious hberty should be made historic, and {ts iniluence, under which so many have found happiness, be suitably acknowledged. Unforeseen difficulties have delayed the ceremonies of presentation beyond the time originally fixed. But we are glad that we aro able to erect uid dedicate this monument belore tho expiration of this Centennial, Here, then, we stand to-day, to signalize the triamph of an idea, which has shed inore Jusire o1 Fcountry’s history than the noblest deeds of 18 warlike heroes. Here, on this day of general thanksgiving, when a whole ration stands in praise belore the Great Giver of good aud Father of all mankind, come we to join in their devotions und to commomorate the Wisdoin of the founders of our republic. Itis notin our special character of Jews that we offer this tribute, for do pot conceive that it is strictly as Jews that we enjoy religious iberty, that being a blessing which 1s offered freely toall. fn other countries progress has been made in toleration, ‘rom time to time, by the gradual removal of disabilities. But it is the crowning glory of our constitation, that it guarantees perfect religious equality to all, not from passing reasons of oxpeaicney, but on the high ground ofjastice and humanity, And great as inu-t be our admiration of the wisdom of the fathers in acting upon such lofty views, 1b cannot but be still further: enbanced, when we reflect how completely these tdeas were at Variance with the spirit ot the tines and the vupinions then universally prevalent. A republean form of government, although in those days rure, was hot altogether without cucouraging precedent; but a government entirely renouncing ail official connection with religion, Was on unheard of anomaly, decmed in:possible to establish or maintain. We have, thore!ore, no special cause to express our gratitade for blessings which are shared tn common by all tho people ot government, nor do we pro- fess any distinctive characters as members of a great commanity, tor in all matters aflecting our mghts and privileges as citizens the qnestion of race must be left —_—— Mr. Morris Elinnger, Secretary of the order, in behalf of tho pulive Committee, also spoke acknowl. edgement of the memorial, ana was followed by the Hon. Horatio Gates Jone: ladelpbia, who was iutroduced as the cham jigious ‘liverty im Pennsylvania. Mr. Jones’ address was as fell THE NON. HORATIO GATES JONES, Mx. PRESIDENT AND MRUNERS OF TAK ORDER OF B'Nat Brxiru—Beiore I speak of the great subject which youder marble group 18 designed to commemorate I wish to thank you for the hover you have conterred upon me by Inviting me to participate in the cerema- pies of this day. 1 thank youas an American eitt- zen, aud 1 thank you 4s a Christian, For maby years this question of religioas liberty hax occupied my attention. My conviettons on the subject have grown with my growth, until now 1 ject that it equals, if it does not surpass im import ance every other question of the aay. My own peopie like yours baye suflered every kind and degree of per- seoution both in Europe and America for their adher- ence to the doctrines of “soul liberty,” and from the earliest times they have proclaimed it as one of the distinguishing principles. 1 can therefore most sii cerely sympathize with you inthe object which bas called you here to-day, By some, much regret was felt that tbia stato was not erected during (he progress of the great Exbibition, to as to show to our loreign visors bow much America is indebied for \ts prosperity and progress to the princi. ple of religious liberty, Butto my mind this day of ational thanksgiving I @ most proper time for these services, and thin ceremony 18 a filing and appropriate climax to the proceedings whieh have taken pla within (bese grounds during the last six months. have had contributions trom Europe, and the far-off isles of the sea —the evi wonderful ingenuity and skill Here the me- cha the scholar, the ter and the sculptor have vied with each’ other in thelr various spheres. But all these magnificent structures by’ which we are still surrounded—and yonder statues, chaste and ex- pressive ax they are—all fade away when compared with the one grand idea which is typifiod in this group from the chisel of our talented and accom Plished countryman, Mr, ic Behold it—gaze it—as it stauds there—inute, but yet most elo- nt Were it gifted with the could fancy it as saying: thoughts, the hopes, the joys, { long’ burdened centuries” It was belief in at 1 represent that sustained Mordecai and Esther at the Court them to save the of Abasuerus, and enabled nation from destruction, and it was ' adherence to the sane truth which took Dante! from the dungeon rnd raised bim to tho highest honor, 16 was this oat supported Roger Williams in bis hour of and Wiliam Penn when he tounded Pennsyt- vania, Without mo your civil liberty is worthless. Cherish, then, the principle of religions freedom as you value tho perpetuity of puro religion and the stability of your free institutions’? Mr. President, the doctrine of religious liberty wae one of slow growth in this country, When first pro- claimed by Roger Williams in Massachusetts Bay, about 200 years ago, it caused his banishment from that colony and be was compelled to seek a refuge among the savages; and he reveived from them that aid and protection which were denied him by those who cated themselves Christians, As Mr. Arnold, the Rhode Isiand historian, bas said, “he found spot in the pathless wilderness where ‘he ‘could ret a tomple to Liberty, ecrated to the Lord of the whole earth belore whose ample shrind Jew and Gentile, bond »na free, might each worship God ac cording to the dictates of his own conscience. ‘This was the first instance of a State tonnded upon the principle which we have met to celebrate. Tho prosperity of Rode Island trom tbat day to this ba been onward avd upward, and although the other New England coloinies looked upon it with suspicion, if not with contompt, because tt had no religios i ent but permitted p all religions ai igion to live there in perfect equality, yet it hag ever preserved and guarded with mont jealous care this corner stone of Ms government, At the present time that doctrine, once so detested and dreaded, is incorporated in the constitution of the United States and in that of cach State of the Union except that of New Hampshire. Let us hope that very soon that State will erase from its constitu: tion the article which permits none but Protestants to be Governors, Senators or Representatives, All honor to Roger Willams, the Welshman, tho hero of soul liberty! All honor to the State of Rhode Islana, the nursing mother of this most glorious principle! All hovor to the citizens of that State for their siead. fast adherence to this great truth! Ayo, cull it holy ground, ‘The spot where first they trad: They have loft unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God. During the recent Exhibition a citizen of that small Commonwealth whose peculiar honor it was to tirst prociaiin a doctrine which is even now permeating the nations of Europe erected the celebrated Corliss en- gine, which in yonder hall, by its silent but mighty influence, moved each day over eight miles of intricate machinery aud gave hie, strength and energy to every department of mechanical pursuit, And when, on the 10th of November, that engine was stopped, the Inter- national Exbibition of 1876 was closed fore’ So, if ever we strike down or expunge from our constitution: the doctrine or principle of religious liberty, our pr ress ay a free nation will be forever gone. But, Mr. President, I must not prolong my rena and yet my heart ts full of this theme and f sain speak for hours. 1 shoula like to tell tho peoys of America how your ancestors have stood up for pu ae ple, for truth, for righteousness against Kgyj .ay~, ‘Assyrians, Babylonians and Romans—how they >:* conquered and nearly exterminated, and yet have survived them all, The oppressors ha’ peared frm the face of the carth—many of i proud capitels cannot even be found—but your are now stronger and more powerful than ever, J like to tell how they have been persecuted by Tort id kings, by sults and Moors and ro and also to speuk of their banisbment and figs em England and France and Spain, rather thay ©: their religion, 1 should like to name someler \ people who even now occupy high and disti) or positions a weemen, and scholars, and m © «) and sculptors, and financiers, governing in Gu" « the mightiest monarchs of the world. But tit — »ar)# mo that I must not further trespass on yoar kind sesa In conclusion, Mr. President, let me bias you my belief on this subject in a few wofds, I feel assured that it will meet your views a# Israelites, aud 1 am confident ti lexpress the sentiments of the great mass of the Coristian people of America. | believe In the abrogation of all laws whieh bind the consciences of men in religious matters. I believe in thorough Separation of Church and State, I believe that we siould leave religion where its Divine Author bas lelt i, 98 @& matter between God and man, giving to pagans and Turks, Jews and Chris: tians, the right to fill any office in the government, without avy religious test, les us have a {rce press, a free church, a free conscienco an¢ then Jet us i our battle with errorcarry a banner on which shall be inscribed in letters of living light the word ‘Haruth"’—liberty, And now, my fellow citizens, we must seprate, This scene, these ceremonies, this beautital group will ever be to mo @ living presouce, and they will go down with mo to the grave as among tho most cherished memories of my heart, Should tn: statue mou nto dust, and these grounds become desert, and our beloved country lose the proud position 1 now holds among the wm us of the earth, the principle of religious liberty will still bo cher- ished by every true patriot. We may die und be tor- gotten, but that principle can never die, and when re- ligious liberty ceases to be the brightest jewel in oar diaderm, then we may bid farewell to all'froe govern. ment. Buta beliof in this doctrine calls for high and important duties on our part. Ie the words of the immortal Webster, “Let us fowl our personal responsibility to the full extent of our power and influence for the preservation of the principle of civil and religious liberty. Let us re- membor that it is only religion and morals and knowl. euge that oon make men respectable and happy, un any form of government, Let us hold fast the great iruta that communities are responsible as well as in- dividuals, that no government is respectable which is not just; tuat without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred pubiic principle, fidelity and honor, no mere forms of government, no machinery of laws cun give dignity to political society. In our day ani generation let us seek to raiso and improve the moral sentiment, so that we may look, not forja degraded but for an elevated, improved future. ’” Avain, Mr. President, I thauk you and the members of your Order for this honor and privilege. We shail - never meet again as we have met to-day, but I tr that the time will come when, redecmed and purified from the sins and errors of this hile, we may meet in the everiastipg above of the Diessed, and there sit down With Abrabam ond Isaac nud Jacob—with the holy prophots and mai —in the presence of that God whom they wor. shipped, and who ia the samo to-day, yesterday aud forever. Mr. Solomon Latz, of New York, President of the Supreme Lodge of the Order Kesher-Shel-Barzol, alsa made a short speech, alter which the company ad journed to the Metropolitan Hotel tor a modest repast, Ba “The attributes of the Presidential office, its preroja, tives and possibilities, ils ever increasing power and aplendor, the yearnings of a cultwated and wealthy society for court honors, and the attractions of a cours life, the desire of those in office to retain power and ¢t- ward; the question, in fact, whether a strong Executive tn | tho background Wo evmo together with this our) gilt’ offering, = ami the — general the Republic must become fativity, to combat s closer usion with eur peamete chan ery Leadlsnaadhad fellow countrymen and joyfully to manifest | P%tant in our politics. our sympathy and hearty co operation in their com memoration of this vational event While con- FIRE IN MANGIN STREET. Sribuiiug (his testimonial a8 an evidence of our appre- ciation of that religious liberty which ts vouchsated to | the people of every creed and nationality or who en- joy the protection of this government, we may properly urge our rights to equality with e citizen of Lhe pation and disclaim the idea that we are exer. cising our powers by mere sufferance of toleration. Within a fow feet of thie spot, and Hike a apirit (rom the awakened echoes of the past, stands the heroic figure of Columbus, once, lke the Jews, the victim ot prejudice and parsucd by thé relentless malice of his enemics. To-day, renowned in history and vindicated theonghout the world In the fame year tbat marked the banishment of the Jews from the land of their dearest treasures, Columbus ais- covered this new world and opened a home tor the op- proxsed of all natious, What more fitting companion of bis presence hero than this seuiptured genius of Holigious Liberty, the giit of a once proscrived race who tought the world toleration’ For, tm their greatest glory and when they possessed every element of power and were the govereign rulers of their do- he Jows welcomed the strangers within their 4 their holy temple was ever open to him as own faith ime unmemorial they have been the bearers And disseminawrs of the spirit of forbearance and toleration, and they who bave suffered most irom per- he the sponsors of this material embodiment of the principies they have advocated, und which & ben'gn government hus crgratted as a fundamental element of 18 Mational Lite, Jt w uuder these happy ausptces that we participate In the general sentiment of joy and gladnosa that dis- Vinguishes the celebration of our country’s Centennial A fire took place yesterday afternoon in the manus ° factory of U, W. F. Dare, No. 81 Mangin street, which resulted in damage to the extent of about $10,000, The building was used for the manufacture of rocking or hobby horses, and tue bi 88 gave employment to cighty hands, who will be thrown out . work for# time at least. From the following story, related to H&RRALD reporter by the proprietor of the place, the fire seeins to hi ginated through the wantonnes¢ of a boy who was playing in neighborhood, Tht shop had been closed on account of the hok iday, and Mr Dare was on,‘ + roof of the building about horsting a «flag n be noticed one of a number of boys on tho jowalk bi arm in through a holo ia the front wail of who buliding, ‘The hole was used for ruoning out boards while planing them. Suspectiog something Wrong he called to the engineer, who was engaged in doing some repairt wat the boiler, but the Jatter failed to bim, He came down a few moments later and ut Hoor in flames, Qo account of u with which the buiiding was filled ber re spread vor: and in less than half an hour the eatire bull rapidly, ine was burning. The loss is estimated at $10,000, and ig (ully insured in companies mostly oatside of this cli. “Then our Republic would be an greciously wounded as when @ rubmiasice Senate in the Roman days permitted an imperator 10 aseweme continuous power in the person af Augustus Coeur.” —