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success In New York. lii this piece Mrs. and Mr.
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ters. The other parts will be in the hands of the
different members of the company. All the
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will be new, and with the can: bestowed upon its
production, the public have a right to expect
something fresh and entertaining. After the
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Owens, Marie Zoe, Lucille Western, and the Ger-
Juan Opera Company.
ASBE3IIII.I' AUILDING.-Mr. Alf. Burnett, the
renowned humorist, will commence a series of
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POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN VIRGINIA.
Call for a Convention of Ex.offieethi
of the Chilled'States Army and Navy
—Governor Peirpoint Stamping the
State.
WASHINGTON, August V.—lntelligence just re
ceived from Richmond, Va.,states that at a meet
ing of ex-United States offcers and soldiers held
in Richmond, Va., to-night, the following call
for a convention was unanimously adopted:
To the ex-Qpieers of the United States Army and
Nary 91011• rexiding in Virginia: We, the Execu
tive: Committee of the ex-Officers', Soldiers' and
Saitors' Union of Ricluncnd, in aced - rdance with
instructions f rom the Union hereby call upon all
ex-officers, soldiers and sailors of the United
States Army and Navy now residing in Vir
ginia, to assemble in convention in the
'United States Court-room, in the city of' Rich
mond, at 12 o'clock, M., on the 25th of Septem
ber next, for the purpose of defining our political
position. and to take such other steps as the exi
gency of the times may seem to
,demand. It is
e'rnestiy desired by the-Union that every officer,
soldier and sailor attend this convention, as a
united action on our part is made necessary by
the Important events now transpiring.
Major L. L. AMIABLE, Chairman.
Captain D. P. PARKER,
Captain D. W. BOIIANON, , Committee.•
Captain J. J. UNDERHILL,
•
LICUL JIM. N. BATTERMAN. •
Governor Peirpoint is now making a stumping
tour In the valley of Virginia. He tins been well
received thus far.
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WANIIINGTON, D. C.. Tuesday, Aug. 27th.—The
President gave out to his private journals last
night the full text of his order transferring Gen.
Hancock to the Fifth Military District. The order
itself has not yet been promulgated by General
Grant, and has, therefore, not taken effect. There
are numerous reports afloat to-night to the
effect that General Grant has refused t 6 pro
mulgate it, but these are incorrect. There are,
however, both grave and important reasons
why the order is held in abeyance, as I stated
yesterday. On receipt of the order Gen. Grant
wrote another letter to the President. This letter
not being ready for transmission until to-day,
did not reach the President until after the Cabinet
meeting this afternoon, and he has not yet
replied. Gen. Grant regards the last order of the
President as entirely superseding General Order
No.. 77, including his instructions to General
Thomas; and there Is little doubt that a serious
difference—not to say conflict of views—has oc
curred between the President and Gen. Grant.
regarding the powers of the latter under the Re
construction Acts, and the purpose of his letter
to the President to-day is believed to have been
to present to him certain further suggestions and
points for his consideration, not touching the
propriety of Sheridan's removal, on which ar
gument has ceased, but the more important ques
tion as to whether the order. of the President
is not so framed as to, conflict directly with
the powers granted to the General-,
in-Chief • by the acts of Congress.;
There is also • good ground for the
belief that the order, when issued, which may
possibly .be • to-morrow, will be accompanied by
WAIL
. The New TI Anne to-day • crimes out fair
and square in antagoniani to President Johnson.
There . Is a . ring Of hearty loYalty in the following
that will please the Republican heart. H. G. has
on• his war paint now, and we may expect some
stout fighting:
THE I'ItESIDENT
The President must stand and fight. We have
been advancing and retreating long enough.
Too many white flags have been exchanged. The
President means war. War •be it, then, and God
speed the right!
Nearly five-mouths since, the regular session
of Congress was adjonnied. The winter had
witnessed an angry contest with the President.
There were three parties: 1. The Democratic
fragment, which gave the President. undivided
allegiance. 2. The moderate Republicans, who,
trusting in his honor, endeavored to make his
duty so plain, and his responsibilities so exact
and limited, that he could not escape them.
They hoped, that the nation mht be recon
structed without violent appeals to the law.
3. The earnest and extreme Republicans who felt
that we could not reconstruct the country with
out the Impeachment of the President. The
counsels of the moderate Republicans prevailed.
They carried the Reconstruction bill. With
the aid of one of these parties they prevented
impeachment: This was accomplished by the
assurance.that the President, having protested
against the action of Congress, would content
himself to have the law quietly carried into
execution. He appointed generals in command
of the military districts who were most accept
able to the country. In the case of General
Sheridan, at least, we know that some of
these appoi' tments were made against
his own •jw. .ment. and in deference to the
Wishes of Con_ • , SS. The Senate and House ad
journed. It',' s felt that the virtual acquiescence
of.the Presidee t would make au extra session un
necessary. Slimmer would see the States recon
structed. Universal Suffrage would be tested.
The . States would gradually drift back into the
Union. When Mr. McPherson called the roll of
the House in December, all the States would
answer, and once_more a full_American_Congress
would sit in an American Canitol.
Then came the first crime. This' law of Re
construction, duly considered and well-approved,
was assailed by Mr. Stanbery. We give Mr.
Stanbery the credit of being an able lawyer and
upright man. But the President wanted an
opinion that was not upright, and in an evil hour
his Attorney-General- wrote it. Ingenious and
subtle, the country did not fail to see that it was
a fraud, and that the President, in inviting its
publication, was dishonest. It cut the heart out
of the Military hill. Reconstruction was brought
to a dead lock. The opinion, to use the figure
of General Sheridan, was a broad, macads I . .ed
road to fraud and perjury, and the Southern
States were thrown into chaos. Congress
was hurriedly assembled. A bill was passed
which even the subtlety of Mr. Stanbery could
not misconstrue. The extreme Republicans con
tended that even this would not do, and that to
have reconstruction, the President should be
impeached. The counsels of such , men as Mr.
Fessenden and Mr.-Wilson, Mr. Colfax and Mr.
Sherman, prevailed. It was held that with a
law thus plainly written the President would
walk directly, and the South would be restored.
This assurance, indeed. was given by Men who
claimed to speak for the President. Congress be
lieved it, and again h adjourned over until winter.
Now comes the Mcond crime. Stanbery can
not explain the law. Bine is so palpably blue
that there is no making even the President be
lieve it tots: gray. The President has the beat
part of a year before him. Since he cannot
nullify the law, be persecutes its ministers..
Stanton is stricken down. The War See
retary, " who • has been retained two years
for Lis disagreeable qualities, is removed
for his virtues. Because of the only quality
which the Republican party honors in Stanton,
he is disgraced. Then comes Sheridan. This
glorious soldier simply performs a soldier's
duty. He executes the law in its true spirit.
He does the work which the country expects
him to do, and is •dismissed. A few days pass,
and Sickles is removed for loyal devotion to
Congress and the country. A Tammany .De
mocrat is placed in New &ems, while a soldier
without a record goes to Charleston. In a few
days Pope will be ordered back to the Indian
coutttry, to assist Sheridan in guarding sutlers'
posts and baggage trains. Grant has served the
President's turn in removing Stanton,and his Ex
cellency is impatient already, calling the General
of our armies "A Radical spy and traitor." He
will no doubt speedily be asked to retire in favor
of Steedmau or Black. That Christian gentle
man and soldier, Howard, who has shown in his
high place the philanthropy and piety of the
great name he bears, is written upon the slate of
degradation. Holt will follow—and - with these
men every soldier or,eivillan who will not aid the
President in his treason:
Where will this end ? The President means
war. The country must stand and light, or be
defeated. We believe anything possible of Mr.
Johnson. His Administration is a record of de
ception, cunning, disloyalty—antagonism to the
best Interests of the country. He has made the
Administration of Buchanan respectable by show
ing a degradation to which even Mr. Buchanan
could not sink. He has betrayed his party; he
has betrayed his friends; he has betrayed his
country. Nothing is left of his Administration
but a few miserable jobbers like those who hang
around him, and a' few wretched political adven
turers like Black. The men whu accepted cou
tumelT for' his cause, like Seward, and Randall
and Nif , elles, he is. Impatient to drive out of his
Cabinet. The savage of Sahara is not insensible
to the obligations of friendship; but even this no
longer retrinins with Mr. Johnson.
We admonish the people to prepare for a stern
and high responsibility. It is nearly a hundred
days until Congress meets. Till then we are
powerless. We can only; bow to this dreadful
tyranny. The President appealed to the country
in his last message. We Join him in the appeal.
Let our friends organize everywhere. Let us
make the canvass upon the infamy of Mr. John
son's AdMinistration, and having defeated him at
the ballotgiox, we can prepare, through our re
presentatives, to consider. the best course to be
taken to punish him .for.his crimes against the
sovereign will of the American people.
ro.• 41.
Me Cabinet Quarrels.
[From the N. Y. Timm]
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1867.
.
instructions similay to those which accompanied
the first order. .The situation of matters be
tween the ExeCutive Mansion and the War
Department to-night is exceedingly delicate, and
speculation is rife as to the result. Predictions
arc made that General Grant will refuse to issue
the order unless modified tnr accompanied by
Instructions of his own, and that as a consequence
he will be relieved from duty in the War Depart
ment by the President. Should this occur, and
the latter undertake to transmit orders through
any new Secretary of War, the issue is then
direct and unavoidable, for Gen. Grant is acting
under the following timely law of Congress.
Section 2 of the Army ...Appropriation Act, ap
prow d March 2, 1807. under pcatcst,is as follows :
SEc. 2. And be it . ..further enacted; That the head
quarters of the General of the Army of the
United States shall be at the City of Washington,
and all orders and instructions relating to mili
tary operations, issued by the President or Secre
tary of War, shall be issued through the General
of the Army, and , in case of his Inability, through
the next in rank. The General of the Army shall
not be removed, suspended or relieved from
command or assigned to duty elsewhere than at
said headquarters ) except at his own request,
without the previous approval of the Senate: and
any orders or instructions relating to military op
erations issued contrary to the requirements of
this section shall be null and void.and any officer
who shall issue orders or instructions cqiatrary
to the provisions of this section, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and any officer
of the army who shall transmit, convey or obey
any orders or instructions so issued. contrary to
the provisions of this section, knowing that such
orders were so issued, shall be liable to imprison=
ment for not less than o,two nor more twenty
years, upon conviction thereof in any Court of
competent jurisdiction.
(Special Correspondence of the Itomton Adverthserj
WAsill.M•u oti, Aug. 2G. 1817.—This has been a
day of great excitement in Washington, baused
by the circumstances attending the giving out
by the President of a part of the suppressed
Grant correspondence, and by its contents.
Careful inquiry concerning the same leaves
scarcely any doubt but that the President furn
i:hed it for publication while in a condition
- similrir — to - that in which - he was when he took
the oath of office. He gave it out early in theday,
sending for the correspondent of a Boston paper,
and subsequently refusing it to the agent of the
Associated Press, who has been his personal and
intimate friend for twenty years, and also re
fusing a correspondent who is a member of his
household. Both .of . these latter gentlemen have
constantly furnished him with every facility for
newspaper defence. . • . 1
At 11 o'clock last night .he declared to thesn
gentlemen in 'the presence of two ,other news
paper men that he would not let the correspond
ence go, and conveyed the positive impression
that it bad not been given out to another person.
• In military circles his course in suppressing
Gen. Grant's letter protesting sgainst the suspen
sion of Mr. Stanton, is considered a gross out
rage, as the publication f the letter referring to
it made its publleatio ecessary. Army officers
e l)
have denounced the 'dent intention to suppress
General Grant's views in the most anmeasured
terms.
All of General Sheridan's friends are rejoiced at
the President's publication of the correspondence
implicating both himself and General Rousseau in
the charges brought against the latter b y General
Sheridan. It was feared that Gen. Sheridan had
made accusations against Gen. Rousseau without
having possession of the necessary evidence in the
case. This correspondence, though entirely of a
private n ature, the President authorized to be made
public in the shape of telegriphic despatches which
passed between himself and Gen. Rousseau while
the latter was in New Orleans. It is claimed in
official circles here that General, Rousseau and
probably the President have brought themselves
within reach of the provision attaching a penalty
to the act of Interfering with the reconstruction
law. All army officers speak of it as a disgust
ing exhibition of the violation of military eti
quette on the President's part. This nnmcpected
publication by him confirms all in the view given
above of Mr. Johnson's condition during the
greater part of yesterday.
The President has clused the bureau for the
c•llection and arrangement of rebel archives,
which, since the termination of the late war, has
been under the efficient charge of Dr. Francis
Lieber. The records in the 'bureau have been of
great value in various investigations, and the
President having removed Dr. Lieber, whose un
comPromising loyalty has long been a stumbling
block to Mr. Johnson, the latter can now dispose
of the rebel records as he desires.
It is understood that the order prohibiting as
sistant secretaries from sitting iu Cabinet meet
ings was issued to exclude Mr. Binckley, who
has been so elated by having a seat among the
- President's advisers, as to make himself most ob
noxious to the rest of the Cabinet by his officious r
ness; besides, it was believed that he betrayed the
doings of the Cabinet to a little clique which is
trying to secure changes in the Cabinet,
and also that he went directly
from meetings of the Cabinet to the
office of a Johnson paper and concocted editorials
to suit the views of the same clique. The fact
has come to light that the President has in his
own employ a regularly employed corps of de
tectives, paid out of the secret service fund.
,These men have been working for the President
in all directions, attempting to get at evidence
that will weigh against all officials who favor
his impeachment; besides, they have been active
in their operations upon members of Congress
and upon all of known loyalty in official circles
here.
The energetic measures taken by Gov. Swann,
of Maryland, to organize the rebel troops in that
State, have brought out the information that the
presence of Gen. Grant in Baltimore, and his pro
test at the time of the Metropolitan' Police trou
bles, alone prevented Gov. Swami from obtaining
the use•of the six hundred- United States soldiers
then at Fort McHenry, to force the ejection of
the loyal board of police commissioners. The
present rebel military organization in Maryland
is regarded at Gen. Grant's headquarters as a
body in armed hostility to the Union.
FROM NEW YORK.
NEW Yonii, Aug: 28.—George Hammer, with
on Monday shot and dangerously wounded
Catharine Lyons, while in the bookbindery at
No. 161 Washington street, was 'yesterday, by
Coroner Gower, committed to the Tombs to
await the result. Thegirl lies in a very , critical
condition at the New York Hospital. Hammer
still insists that the shooting was accidental. He
says that one barrel of the pistol was acci
dentally discharged while ho was cleaning the
pistol. ••
A lire occurred last night at No. 108 Broad
street, occupied by Thomas & Benham, resulting
in a loss of $40.000. Miles L. Sowerby, a fire
man, was instantly killed by a hill from the roof.
While the Yonkers express train of the Hudson
River Railroad was passing Fifty-seventh street,
yesterday, an unknown man, apparently about
70 years of age, was struck by the locomotive
and instantly 'killed. The body was taken to the
Morgue for Identification.
The Commissioners of Immigration are erecting
at Castle Garden a capacious frame building to
be used as an intelligence office, where farm la
borers and domestics, recently arrived from the
old country, may be obtained. The rural de
mand for help of this kind has rendered this ad
dition absolutely necessary.
A Jersey City Alderman named Ellis, keeper of
a grocery store, and a policeman named Burke,
had a terrible fight on Monday evening, the po
liceman being sent for to arrest Ellis, who was
drunk. The.small bone of Ellis's arm was broken,
and his face battered out of shape:
A GENTLE WHISPER TO MOT/MRS.-If unfor
tunately you have lost your own teeth by neglect
or mismanagement, take care that your daughters
do not suffer the same penalty from the same
cause. Bee to it that they Jhrush their teeth,
regularly and thoroughly with Sozonomr, and
thereby you will insure them souuil• and service
able sets as long as they ibee.
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
[From tL ALii. Itebster, Ttigust 15.]
At the moment when the Prussian press is
becoming calmer the Russian journals seem dis
posed to increase in violence, not only towards
Turkey, but alo towards the nations of Western
Europe. While the greater part of those organs
continue to draw a most frightful picture of the
crimes which they attribute to the Turkish
troops in the island of Crete. the Moscow Gazelle,
representing the extreme Russian party, declares
all Europe to be menaced with a terrible confla
gration; here France is about to. rush upon
Prussia to endeavor to destroy the consequences
of the campaign of Bohemia; there twenty-four
millions of Italians • are preparing to fall upon
Rome; in Germany the States annexed to Prussia
last year are about to take up arms to reconquer
their independence.
Instead of pointing out to us the means or es
caping from those perils, the terrible Gazette
calmly says : "If the shock is inevitable, why
delay it ? The friends of peace themselves may
prefer an immediate catastrophe to so lamenta
ble a state of things." No doubt it depends on
Russia alone to avoid all those disasters; but we
are not worthy of her intervention • in our favor.
Already in the spring she kindly saved
France from a war which was on the point
of breaking out, and we did not show our
gratitude to her. "No one has understood the
greatness of the sacrifice 'Russia made in pacify
ing Europe, when a war on the subject of Lux
emburg gave her such - a godd•opportunity of
delivering, without difficulty, her co-religionists
in. the East whose destinies are so intimately
bound . %) with her own." To that sacrifice Eu
rope Only replied by giving an enthusiastic recep
tion to the Sultan. Therefore Europe deserves
no Pitittittlirthe Moscow Gazelle consequently
abandons nee to her sad fate.
French Reply . to Prussian Accusations.
[From the Paris Temps, August 16.1
In an article which has been extensively copied
the Prussian print (North German Gazette) raises
the scarecrow of the old parties, and affects to
represent war as being demanded and desired by
the opponents of the Imperial dynasty. These
are they who, if the Berlin journal is to be be
lieVed, are favoring a resort to hostilities, while
the Emperor's government has assuredly no idea
of combating the principle of nationali
ties, after haring been the first to pro
claim it. The insinuation is doubly
adroit, involving as it does at once
a menace and a flattery. But at the same time it
would be difficult to represent with less fidelity
the position of the question and the state of pub
lic opinion in France. If the Prussian writer
knew our country, he - would be aware that former
parties exist now only in the electioneering circu
lars of the administration; he would understand
especially that war is not desired here by any one,
and that the apprehension entertained by enlight
ened men is precisely that of seeing the country
eng,aged, without its own knowledge, in enter
prises for which it could not be responsible, inas
much as it could not prevent them. Would the
North Germim Gazette pretend by any chance
to place the Mexican expedition to the account
of public opinion in France? Does it think it
can insinuate that the opposition drove the Gov
ernment into that undertaking? Its language
now, respecting the disposition of France toward
Germany, is not a whit more sensible than either
of these suppositions would be. The Prussian
journal shows in still another manner •its
ignorance concerning us. It does not admit
that the internal condition of France can have
any share in the causes of the war which
people anticipate. Nothing, however,is more
certain. At the present point
which matters
have turived, nfter the reawakening of public
opinion, atteri the Mexican disaster, after the
struggles of last session, after the hopes to which
the letter of the 19th of January gave life, and
which at present scarcely remain hopes—after all
this, there is no exaggeration in saying that 'our
government finds itself between the horns of this
dilemma-:-either to satisfy the legitimate demands
of liberal opinion, or to impose silence upon it by
the loud brutal roar of the cannon.
The Imperial Conference at Salzburg.
(From the Independence Beige, August 17.]
The journey to Salzburg, with respect to which
the Court of France was prompt to enlighten
that of Prussia, especially through the interme
diation of the Count de Goltz, isnot of a nature to
offend Count de Bismarck or his sovereign. We
should even be tempted to belleve,with our Berlin
correspondent, that, taken together with the in
opportune proceeding of M. de Moustier in favor
of Denmark, the Prussian Cabinet, on the con
trary, congratulates itself upon the visit from
the point of view of successes it is calculated to
promote in the approaching elections for the
Federal Parliament. An article published yester-,
day in the 'ournal des Debats, and which assumes
the form of a diplomatic communication, will
not modify these appreciations of the Prussian
government. A perusal of it will lead to this
conviction.
According to the French print the two Em
perors in their approaching conversations Will
speak of every question at present agitating the
Old and New Worlds; the settlement of the Mexi
can war, the constitution of Germanic unity un
der the supremacy :of Prussia, and, finally,
to crown all, the dismemberment of the
Ottoman Empire. Napoleon I. and Alex
ander I. dividing , Europe between them
at Erfurt had not so extensive a pro
gramme as that of which the Debuts desires to
give the settlement to Napoleon 111. and Francis
Joseph. Thus, notwithstanding the authority
'which ordinarily attaches to what appears in that
journal, we persist in believing that the interview
at Salzburg will have no other character than
that of a demonstration, somewhat marked, per
haps, of affectionate sympathy mingled with
regret.
. . ,
The Journal de Paris gives the following Juror
mitten of the actual condition of the armaments
of the South German;States:
Baden posacaeos e t preesqiat 24,000 acodlo gnu
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
PIA OL FON FETE DAY..
A nrilliant Celebration..rearb4 grnustu..
ally Crowded and Gay.
Napoleon's fete day was observed with the
greatest enthusiasm and much splendor, in Paris,
on the Wth of August..
• The crowds in the streets and suburbs were ex
traordinary,as in addition to the usual population
of the capital the Universal Exhibition furnished
a very considerable quota. while the arri
vals by the railways Bunn the week
were estimated at upwards o" four hundred
thousand persons. As the vi is of so• many
sovereigns and princes had radually supplied
Paris with the hags of a ost every European
nation, the pr o incipsil thorn ghlares presented an
elegant and variegated appearance.
Scarcely had the cannon of the Invalides- an
nounced, at six in, the morning, that the day
fete had commenced, when a distribntion of alms
and provisions was made In all the arrondisse
ments to such of the inhabitants, aged and ne
cessitous, as required assistance. All this was
done from the Emperor's privy purse.
The old soldiers of the First Empire, in their
curious uniforms, walked round the column 111
the Place VendOme.
After the mass the theatres were opened to the
public. The people crowded the gardens. There
were amusements ont-door—amusement of every
sort military displays and fireworks in the
evening.
As the thee approached for the fireworks, the
Empress appeared for a moment, with several
other ladies, at the balcony of the central win
dow- of the Palace, overlooiting the garden, and
was londly cheered. After the display, repeated
cries of "Vive l'lmpratrice!" again induced her
Majesty to come forward and salate the vast
crowd below.
THE 'l4 , Alt ASPECT.
Russian Anticipations of a Gigantic
European
imenamt, X.
Armaments of the Sauthern States.
•
and 2,000,000 cartridges, supplied by Prussia,aud
which have not cost the Badenese Government
less than ;40,000 florins. .
IVtirtembilrg possesses 30,000 necdleguits, and a
million and a half of cartridges, Bismarck has
not yet dared to send Prussian officers into
Wurtemburg for the purpose of instructing the
Wurtemburgian army.. Had lie clone so they
would have met with an Indifferent reception
from the civil population. Therefore, the in
atruetion of the Wurtemburg troops is pro
visionally intrusted to twenty Badenese officers.
Bavaria has as yet no needle-guns, but all re
pugnance to the Prussian military systein has
been vanquished, and orders have been given to
assimilate the military system of Bavaria to that
of Prussia as soon as possible: By next spring,
in fact, the Southern States will be able to addto—
the force of the Prussian King„ the militarychief
of the Northern Confederation, 12,000 armed
men equipped and disciplined in the Prussian
manner.
THE SULTAN AT HOME.
Arrival and Reception of Ilis Majesty
in Constantinople.
IColudantinople (fragust 7) Correapoudence of Galiguani's
Meoeenger.)
At nine ,o'clock this morning the prolonged
roar of guns from the men-of-war in the harbor
and the land batteries, and the Sharp roll of
musketry from the troops who lined both shores
of the Bosphorus, announced the Sultan's return
to Constantinople, after his memorable six
weeks' journey in Western Europe.
Ills Majesty left itustehuk at nine o'clock yes
terday morning, by the Rtisteliuk and Varna
Railway for Varna, which he reached at a quarter
past four in tile afternoon. The Grand Vizier
and the Sera-kier hnd both left for Varna and
Bustchnk since Wednesday last to meet their
sovereign. Ali Pasha having expressed a wish
to co by an Austrian steamer, the Austrian
Lloyds agency placed one of the finest vessels of
its line, the. Neptune, at his Highness's disposal.
On arriving at Varna, at fifteen minutes past four
yesterday afternoon, the Sultan must have gone
straight on board the Sultanieh, and started at
once, for it was quick work for the imperial
flotilla to cross the Black Sea and make the
Bosphorus this morning after a run of only six
teen hours.
Notice was ..issued from the Grand Vizier's
office last night, and this morning the heads of
the varicus religious communities of the capital,
the Turkish civil,military and ecclesiastical func
tionaries in vessels provided by the government,
and members of the diplomatic corps in the
despatch boats of the embassies, went out to the
entrance of the Bosphorus to welcome the Sultan
home. The news of his approaching arrival gave
a fresh stimulus to the preparations making here
for. his reception, and the finishing touches are
now being given in all directions to arrange
ments of hags and festive devices, garlands- and
triumphal arches.
In all directions, in fact, the coming - fete in
honor of the Sultan's return from Europe pro
mises to be the finest ever witnessed in the,Turk
ish capital. The festivities will continue
for three days, during which the Custom House
and all the public oilices.will be closed, and there
Will be three nights' illuminations. The whole.
city is gay with lags and decorations, and alive
with animation. The release of small debtors,
and of persons convicted of. minor offences has
been ordered, large sums are 'given in charity,
and a general amnesty for all political and press
offences is spoken of.
The Sultan's Plan of Reform.
A telegram from Constantinople, dated the liith
'of August, says:—The Sultan on his return de
clared to the Grand Vizier that the reception he
had met with from foreign peoples and govern
ments had strengthened in him the desire to as
sure impartial protection to, all his subjects.
"This sentiment," said his Majesty, "Is that of
a sacred debt. My solicitude Will remain as con
stantly awake in favor of the progress of public
instruction, extension of means of communica
tion, a good orennization of our national forces,
and the development of our credit."
An Original Epistle.
The following is a verbatim copy of a letter re
ceived by Preshient Johnson. The writer believes
in "My Policy" and in - Mr. Johnson's ability to
"mak som plan :"
FEDUA.RY 11th 1867—lion Mr Johnsan Brumlent
(yr the U. S. Stu Please notice a Soldiers letter.
1 wood in form yotir Exalency that my Self &,
three others was Drafted in 18630Septembr Ist Ic
my Senn was Discharged on toe 16 Day of May
1865 -at the close of War and I Never got my
Hundred Dollars Bounty what Abraham Licon
Made iu His Proclamation at that tin: c all Drafted
men that sireved for three years or Doaring War
was to Have one Hundred - Dollars Bounty those
three that ware Drafted with me thair names is as
follows c- 8- & N— E—
those three Got thair one Hundred Dollars noun;
ty, my Self° Never Got the first Dollar of it Wich
my Discharge will Show for its Selfe I wood Be
very thank full to you Mr President if you wood
strik on som way so I wood Get my Just Doos
out of the Goverment I tell you Sir I am in Need
of it I Have a family of 3 Children & wif my
Selfe & Rent to Pay &Everything is so innormus
High & I Have Lost my Health while in the
army & I cant work seairseley Eny tt must
Live I Sirved three mouth in the Eight 111-110i6
110i6 Regement in three mouth sirvis 21
mouth in the three years Draft lam intiteled to
100.00 Bounty & the Equilization if your Exa
lency Pleasers try & Mak Soul Plan or other So
I can Get my Just Doos for I Stand very much
in Need of it Conggress Has not Delt fair at tall
wit the Soldiers k, It is Not fair at tall glut thut
all the Rest of the Drafted Gott thair Bounty &
the Will Get thair Equilication Bounty too. & I
Need it so very Bad & Dont Get Eny thing
Please Notice a Soldiers Letter & one that has
all w«yes Bin tru to Bollix!' 4. to the old Dencoe,
racy D.. 7'
Answr Soon
I am your obediaut Sirvent
Address --
N B it' you Pleuse you may Send me a Draft on
the Nathanal Bank.
Letter front Seeretaty Stanton.
The following letter from Secretary Stanton
was read by the Mayor at the meeting of the
Board of Aldermen of Boston on Monday:
COTUIT PORT, August 23d, 1867.—Sir: I have
the honor to acknowledge your letter of yester
day's date, enclosing a copy of resolutions passed
by the Aldermen and Common Council of
Boston, referring to my public services and ten
dering to me the hospitalities of that city. Such a
testimonial could not fall to be gratifying to any
public servant, and by me will be highly appreci
ated. In respect to the public services referred to,
I claim no more merit than justly belongs to all
patriotic men and women, .who wore ready to
bear all, do all, and sutler all,, that their Govern
ment might Be saved, and Its foundation estab
lished upon the principles of universal freedom,
guaranteed by universal suffrage and universal
education. My purpose lu visiting this 'State
was truly stated lu the preamble of your resolu
tions, viz., for the reestablishment of my health.
I hope, therefore, to be excused from any public
ceremony or attention, and that this will be re
ceived as an appropriate acknowledgment of the
hospitalities tendered me by the municipal aur
thorities of Boston. With much respect, I am,
truly yours, Enwix M. STANTON.
To Otis Norcross, Mayor of Boston.
The Cuba Cable.
•PUNTA Rosa, via Lake City, Fla., August .;26.
The entire day has been consumed in taking oil
the seven miles of shore and by the steamer
Emily, which, early to-morrow morning, will
pay it out to the steamer Narva. To-morrow
night the Narva will commence paying out the
cable at Key West. A storm to-night over
took ns, anti all the. Cable hands are OtuaVed.
shore.
F. I. FETHERSTON. Publisbr.
PRICE TIMES OENTW
FACTS AND FARM ES.
—Derby Is said to own half of Liverpool.
—Bratil Is going to try a few. breech-loaders. ,
—Barnum make& sloo,ooo' a year oist of I►ls
Museum.
—Edwin Adains, tte• actor, is doing' well in
San Francifto.
—The Penne°la Ob.aert-er urges Grant and FOs
seuden for 18P8.
—Dr. Mary Walker, 'Kilo' has loin been ari;"road,
returned to berzaved Atrterica•yeKtrdtiy.
—Two giraffea are on their Way'to this eetn
try. Tbey will ptoltably (De beforellhey'geeliere,
as many others balk, done.
--The Suez canaTlvill soon'be opened'ttr. com
merce. Both Russia and Auf,tria wril be gai4ets
by the new route to•lndia.
—A convention oP • engirreertr•bas allgembled' at:
St. Louis, some of them famous In the - conntrA4
to consult on the grearbridge.
—ln Chicago the keno •banka•no closzd.tr UR" .
authorities, but the players hirtra vtsser•and go
out on the lake to gamble.
The claim of the Louisville, New Albany and;.
Chicago Railroad to be adjustedlry the Horgan.
Raid COMILII3BIO7I amounts to $23,A2 07...
• —,A Florida editor predicts that that State will
be the Italy of America: There 'Oa; strong tidy
of emigration In that direction.
—Bismarck talks of coming to ' , America next
year. In a privateletter ho expresses great end
osity to see General Grant.
—ln the little town of Winn; Me., Tflo,ooo hides
are annually tanned into sole leather-at one tan
nery—said to be the largest in .the world.
-,-Florence Nightingale's health is said to be so
delicate that her physicians are alarmed abont
her condition.
—An eclipse of the sun will' take place on the
twenty-ninth of this month—next Thursday—in,
Chile.
died at Cairo, 111., one • day last week,
from the effects of holding aarge piece of ice In.
his hand while he was overheated.
—Edwin Booth opens at Faltitnore early in
September: He is to play a 'Series of engage;-
mentS in the West during the coming season..
—The Imperial physicians .fear the young
prince Napoleon will not live to his majority on
account of some organic disease.
—The young colored artist, Edmonia Lewis
has a Hiawatha wooing group •on Its way to
America.
—The Albany Knickerbocker places Addison
an imprimis among writers of ''pare dietibn:'
Horace Greeley next, and Dickens-nest.
—The New Orleans Crescent says that Weedis
so fond of Grant because Grant 15.80 fond +of the'
Weed. But T. is not the Weed Grant is fond of.
—There will be a camp meeting.; a theatre, a•
second advent gathering and a circus, all at once,
in Belfast, Me., this week.
—Constant Mayer has begun ft picture MM.
tracing scene in Whittler's "Maud Muller."
"And the young girl mused bead& the Toll,
Till the rain- on the 'tusked eldver fell.'.'
—The naval cadets of the American. school—
ship left quite a favorable impreeabbnlnearis i ea
"stout, tall, well-built lade—quiet and' gentle—
manly."
—A town meeting In Wisconsin has re-nomi--,
dated Gen. McClellan for President . Why didn't.
they nominate Noah or some other deadman at
once ?
—A-writer in the New York Exxon predicts
that the next winter will be a steady cold season,
and not an open winter, because the bees- have
stored but a small amount of honey.
—The potato bugs are destroling whole
crops of potatoes, eating up the vines, and walk
ing across the streets of some of the farmitigtowna.
of Illinois. •
—Mrs. Lander,theactress, is not very wealthy,
as has been stated. She has merely a comfortable
competency now, having contributeddiberally to
the Union cause during the war..
' —The loss by the rot of the lOhio. grapes- this
year will not be so great as was. expected. .Only
the Catawbas have suffered at all, and. the Ism—
benne and Delawares are fully se goodi as usual.
—Scene: A crowded horse-ear. First Passen—
ger—(To a sturdy laborer standing in tl - ont of
him.) "I say, there ! I've got toes !"' Second
Passenger—" - -e-5." (A gleam of intelligence
lightens his face.) "I felt 'cm.'
—Chicago papers report that•Long•JOhn.Wenh
worth is suffering from a -fracture of: the.surgi
cal neck of "femur, and stellated fracture or
acetabulum," havivg fallen out of a carriage re
cently.
—An insane. man .in Hickory. Pa.; the other
day, attempted to make a lad plhy the scriptural
Part of Isaac, and to offer h i up as a sacrifice.
Timely interference saved a.it, unwkvirtira.
from a bloody death.
- , -Some of the rules of the Boston police are
rather disagreeable. One rule compels•then to
keep their coats buttommi up to. the•thiloat" In
summer, and another forbids officers speaking
with citizens.
—A London exchange states. that "a little boy
in New York has been making kites of his
father's seven-thirties." We can assure out , Eng
lish cotempomry that boys in this country often
make, not only kites, but ducks anti drakes of
their father's securities.
—Jenkins, describing the ladies at a Saratoga
ball, says "the beautiful Miss. C. wore her chignon
high with a single ringlet over her left shoulder,
ala Undine." That Undine wore her hair in the
shape of a waterfall seemslikely enough, but how
the deuce did Jenkins learn about the ringlet.
over her left shoulder?
-The Pawnees are the finest lookim and most
intellectual tribe of Indians on the .ne. They
can be depended upon, his said—a marked ex
ception to the rule in Indian character. Thin
tribe has always been friendly to the whites since
the original treaty many years ago. They are
bold and skillful in the use of arms. Other tribes
dread them.
—A chocolate-packing machine is , among the
curiosities at the Paris Exposition, By means of
apparatus 24 cakes of chocolate are, in less than
a second 0') wrapped up, first With silver Paper.
then enveloped with a sheet of white paper, and
instantly sealed with a drop of melted wax, upon
which a hammer falls down and impresses the
stamp of the manufacturer.
—The Japanese Jenkins says the new Tycoon,
Stats Bashi (of the well-known Bashi, family, of
Yokohama) is amiable, and wears while silk.
robes with sleeves of white satb3. His intelllgonets
is remarkable, and his crest is worked in Iliac, all
over his clothes. Ho sports a paper cap. tied with
ribbons, and has great talents for governnaenti.
His age is 31, and his trowsers are emboidered
in gold.
—lt is proposed to erect a monument in Berlin
to the -. man who first Introduced the.potato Into.
Europe. At the present time the extent. of; land
under potato cultivation in France is 2.0441,364,
acres; in Austria it is 1;308,148 acres; *lreland,
1,050,419 acres; in Bavaria, 649,73$ aeres; inrreat,
Britain, 498,843 acres; in Belgiurn, 3014850 acres;
in Sweden, 334,000 acres; lu holland; 265,887
acres; in Wurtemburg, 167,948 acres, and in Den
mark, 69,176 acres.
—At the Paris Exitibitiop, /o , : lkiipirig of Mae, all
in diamonds, that waves nit trembles, every
flower bending on its stalk.us.ln 'nature. Its price
is ..t1,720. The ladle's wad uninitiatedgeutleaten
who look at it, and ddight in its sparkle. saYs
correspondent, have no idea of the dinicultlw
which had to be stuanounted before this perfect ,
ornament could be finished ibr a lady's hair. In
order to give tbe stalks which hold the diamond
flowers the necessary pliablilty,—or rather the
exact.pliability deaired,--the jeweler found it Ist
dispensable to have rt flat gold wire, drawn. end
twisted into a spring. By this Plan reaistrengs4i
is combined with seeming fragility. The *prig
cau be taken to nieces by the turn of a little nu
ton, tuld worn mseparato sprli. , ,a in the haiX.