8 • *MIUEST tot - - 4 Semi. ;tow iteimise tor , Hi% 1111DprIAOPMent fOr —.lle Claims ; Dummies flu 23 0 000 lbw :False laupirbsentraeyat. Y. , Titnes 10-day contains the fol-• itiWing fuller account of a matter to which we • ," ialltided briefly yesterday • While in command of .the Departnient of, the. Atlantic in 1805. Oen. John A. Dix caused, tite4atest of John `.Aitchel, who first became, knoWn to the. ;.American people as a fugitive! "Irish.rfitriot,” and afterwards during the re hellion OSA writer of violent and vituperative: ;Wades •againsf the NOrth In a Richmond' PrkPer- He was committed to .Mort Lafayette.; , After two days' imprisonment 'in Fort La-, fayette he 'was transferred to Fortress Monroe,i "where he Vas kept in confinement about four } 1111Q1101S. He has 1103 V commenced. an. action; 4 raitist General Dix for the aforesaAd iut `Pirlsonment, laying his damages. at $25,000.; The following is the affidavit setting forth the; grounds of, his action, on which Judge Mc-i 42111,1171 issued an order for the arrest of bieneratt :1'"- SUPERIOR Counr• of tia - F. Cii.V. or Nicw! ~.. Youx.—John Mitchel, t el, plain'', irs.,Jblin A. D".e,t ''-' 4 affentlant.—Jobn .Mitchel the plaintiff aboyei, ' - z I named, being . duly sworn, sa;i*sr That, daring' .;the several, times hereinafter mentioned' h' . was. and is'now, a citizens of the State of New, , :York and of the United States ;of 'America . -' • ••, tliat heretofore, and on or about the_ 14th., day; of jtine. 1865, at the city of. New. York afore-. • ' , . ' ''11:11 .1 . _defendant malieioualy.alid witli, the inte.nt toininre the p :until , y orce 0. him (the plaintiff) into custody and 'unlawfully" i confined biniat the city of;New York • afore . ''said, and compelled him to go onboard a vessel under the.control and command , of him (the defendant); at the city of New York afore- I said, 'such , boat or , vessel being then at" that ' place, and • the defendant • im prisoned and retained in close confinement i this ,plaintiff for•the . space • of. two' days, and 1 ' from thence this plaintiff; by command of said 'defendant, was taken to l'ortress Monroe, in thetState of Virginia, and .further restrainci ' 4l of lila liberty' for the further period of four • , ..months and fourteen dayS, making in all four • • months and sixteen dayi, without reasonable tango and without any right or authoritypa to 1 1.01 whereby the, plaintiftwas not only injured in.body and mind, but also Wa.4 •injured in his credit and reputation, and was also prevented 4 - ' Unto attending to his necessary business, eluting i . that time; that by said • imprisonment ':'': his family were deprived of their meana of livelihood and support, aud subjected to great privation and distress, that at Fortress -: Monroe lie ;was confined in a casemate withi out liberty, to take out-door exercise or to reall any book except theßible, or to converse with , bits fellow-prisoners, or 'even to smoke, for tie.- '-, first month of said continenient, • and treated like a common felon; that the proilsions fur : iiished,him , were . unclean, 1111 Wholesome and • unfit for use'; that in two months he was pro-, trated b - sieltnes.s and seldom ,able to arise ;,from his bed; that by day and night an alined , sentiriel. with fixed lifiyonet, paced his beat Backward and forward in his prison casemate. After such confinement for two months, he ivas infonned by his attendant , physician that he was dying—•then, for the first time, he was fitrnisheil with wholesonie food and permitted • to take out-door exercise. • • - • That he bas never been- informed or in any way apprised of the offence for which lie was ( 2 's arrested and siibjected to such harsh • treat , meat, by reason of all which lie has been sub jected ,to great damage, , to wit; the sum of 52,'7,01.0. `That the plaintiff has commenced an action against the defendant uPoii the cause ...,;-*- of action above stated. JOHN 31Frc REL. Sworn to before ime this 10th day-of: .1 aly, laili. • . DotroL,is A. LKVIEN • Notary Public, New York Ci'tv Gen, Dix. having beentalreninto custody by Sheriff O'Brien, executed thefollowingrmder- Uldng and was released: . . • Burxition Couter.--John Mitchel, plaintif,.vs. , • John .1. Dix, tlkfinclant.—Th6 ,abolre-named de ; fendant, jolin.A. Dix; having ,been arrested by. ,lames O'Brien; the ,Slieritr of tae.City ani i County of New York, upon an order to arrest ' granted by Hon. John H. McCann, in a certain .'; action commenced in the above-named. CLitirt by the above-named plaintitiagainst the above - named defendant. . • , . • , '',- .• We. 4 01 n A. Dix, No - West 'fwenty-tirst street, in, the city of New; ork; hy occupation gentleman, and John.l. Cisco, of No. 136 Fifth ; ,avenue, in the city of. New York, by occupa tion banker, aiiil Moses Taylor, of Ni,. 121! • ; Fifth- avenue,' banker, hereby undertake in ' : 'the Ram of $20,000 that the above-nained de feralant, nrrested as_ aforesaid, sliallat all time , render himself innenable to the process of said ~ Conifdliiing'subb action and to ,inich :is may be issueil to enforce jutigraent therein. • • . * . ‘; Jinni A. Dix, JOHN J. CIKCO, ' , • '• ; ,',. —31014 ES TAYLOR. • Intthe replirt4lllthe affair-- that appeared in an evening journal it Wa.i. c-tated that H: E Tallmadge acted;ils mittaters counsel. , The following note relieve him of the Imputa "than : .7 Ni:w YORK, Wedne - --day. Ang-18,1869. , To the Editor of the -Nat Yeri - Ti.Thet: If you . should ...110tie t wal A of arrest of General Dix lat suit •of.J Mitchel, Esq., a l li lilealli — plea - fitatinent e plaintiffwas : represented by H. E. Tallmadge, Esq.,of coun • sel, such not: being the faet, and published withont_authorit„y___ Very respectfully,_ • 'ROGER .1. PAGE. , ' 1 3 1aintill's Attorney. PRESIDENTIAL_ SFJELD. Judge. f2lbaso.lln 'lFijorn a Itiebinoraf I,uttt4 ?in tLu Bost(e Dalb; Ad• Mr. Chase, ,with that forecast and sagacity for he has been somewhat noted, saw long :ISO to What we were tending, and with" an activity, zeal and rapidity not common to men of -- his Weight, early :lint - himself in tt sition to make the, best Possible use of the portimities,presebted: white hand and • , velvety toneh, artardpidatedf not a feW 'of they men - who haVe'Mitieitand mingled in our past, clunplicationS4 There WiisSuch an odor of r. :pectability alioUti ,!•litni, such, a - happy method of saying pleasant things, a tongue that could flatter so charm' rigtv such a imnderouS dignity of Manner,'.as to make him almost irresistible. On one ocea _ sion, shortly after the DeMocratic Convention , in :July last •year, a trasting, honest.h 'unsuspecting gentleman who believed that the abolitionist of 18 , 10, the cabinet officer of Mr. ' Dincolu, the distinguished Chief Justice was allepublican, and member of the'Republican party, veu innocently remarked:—" Why, Chief 'Justice, the Democrats came. ery near capturing you at New York in their'con vention ;" to which he replied :—" Oh, no, not at all.; I have always been a Democrat." o gay there is no imPutation which could be Made mote Offensive to that gentleman than that he is a Republican, or that he sympathizes With or desires the success of the Republican '1 Rhin a short time the Richmond Dispatch, , . of thin most bitter of all the conservative papers of Virginia; heads its leading editorial with the ( name of -Mr, Chase, comphmentshim as being • the" ablest among all • the northern statesmen•-" , a iskilful financier who did more than any one, of the Federal Generals to bring the. War to; a,Successful termination, and says : "Be is Supposed :.to haVe advised with the Virginians who first proposed .to withdraw Colonel Withers and • coneen -Irate all the Opponents ' of Wells • mpon Colonel 'Walker." The .smiosition "re ferred tO . ffianie)diititiglact n 4 said by the 'Dis,tiatek'aild?. Chase 'has . done, is doing' Oi• *5.11.140; ISpnith e*prestiArefer enee to the , forniationlindsuecess:of theinew party. It is not, hoWever, at all improbable that Mr. Chase, after'doing: damage l• that his past position, -present opportuni ties, large experience and capacity enabled him to do, may finally fail of reaching the goal of his ambition. He nuly not :Ovell .be the nominee A Heavy Fora:cry - In Nebraska. [From the tlomhu Ilerald of Autotet 14.) , A fete. ; days ago a genteelydressed-antt rho registered, his name at the beta in Nebraska City :o "C. G.'Whitman,". arrived- in that place and made a deposit ` t)f Fixty=four dollars in t!,(114, $303 in currency, dratt on the National Bank Of Bloom-. ingtonfor $:3,500 on Gilmore, Dunlap 8,7,' Co., nci motti. Ho elwelted out urall rnuus to pay on a lease of a store in that town, as he ave out that he vitia goingintO business thee*); doitg considerable talk around a:boat' , on this subject, telling Mr. 'Ware that he wanted to start next mornmg cck buy his stoOk 'semis, all arrangements'