, 1866-08-29

losing nothing in that State.
TIE NATIONAL nEPuD11cAE HEADQUARTERS :
were opened In this city to-day. 4 fine building.
No. aG6 street. has been rented and finely f}ttei
up. Judge Edmonde, latc Of tile General Land
OGce, Will 10 il chief charge. This viii. In fart
BE- Bureau Of Politics, having full and accnrntc
Information from every Congressional District In
the country. md being in constan, correspondence
with all the Loyal Leagues Of the various States
Il weekly journal OF sixteen Quarto paees. to he
called the Great R,u1l will be issued, u,,d II ia
lntcnesed to make this the permanent GENRE Of
unlolt political effort In the National capitsl.
cEE1Is OF soETaEnS US1oN1srs.
humber Of delegates to the September Con.
scrtienhase arrived from thc South TO day. They
1'ireEoattl' tic coursc Of the President in ~:
ii,s"the New Orleans butchcry has Eadc the
roalion OF Union men more rcrIIous than It wa.
at any lime ucdcr the Confederate Government.
IN many parts Of tic South where II yyas con.
terminated to bold meetings md appoint Delegates
public opinion Las suddenly BECOME 70 litter
towards oil Cntonists as 10 render it certain
death 10 take part In an} meeting to farther the
object Of tic Loyalists' Convention.
APPOINTMENT.
Robert r. Sinclair las been pppoju,ea Collector
Of Internal Revenue for tic Fourth District Of
+. Michigan.
ANOTHER LunIcnors Ennon.
Cornelius Wendell. on opening hta commission
this morning atcr tho President icf was eu.pr,scd
10 ind tlat through clerical error 1t was tot
Commissioners Of Public Buildings instead Of
THhlic Printing. The President had either signed
It haelIly without noticing the mistake, or hts
na1nc had bccn signed With ihc pardon stamp.
APpo1N7AES1s or ros7xAsTEns.
The following appointments Of Po.tmasters
wcle made yesterday: a. G. Clarke, Toledo, O.;
4. Il. Lockwood, Quincy, ILL.,; Z. D. Allen, Terrc
naatc, Ind; q. A. Starr, Milwaukee, Wis.,;
Henry Barnes, Detroit, Mich: c. II. TnyIor.
Grand l'apfds, Mich; John A. Mcdowell. keo.
kuk, Iowa; George iscnstein, C1arksville, Texas.
TAX TO DE s1oPrED.
AT tic request OF The QuaricInastcr General, tae
ray Of The following named officers will be SION
red until 1'ty render 10 the Quaster1naster's de-
partmcht the returns aud accounts ren,.tscd Of
item by law and the regulations for duty ln that
oahce; lieutenant n. Ellis. Acting Assistant
cuartcrmas1c. Sixteenth Kentucky Voluntccrs:
Lieutenant S. II. Fernandez, Assistant Vuarte.-
master Tscnty-frst Wisconsin Volunteers; Lieu
tenant Thomas M. Tanning, Ninth Ohio Cavalry:
Lieutenant r. J. Frayue, Seventeenth Veteran
kcscrsc Corps; Captain Henry Fox.
1hi'ty-cfslth Wisconsin Volunteers; Captain J.
A.tIcll, First lilnoie Artillery; E1ajor d. C. Full
tom First Wisconsin Volunteers; Lieutenant
Colonel John F. Grill, Twcnty-lour,h Inl1aua Vol
nriecrs; Lieutenant Richard George Bell, Ntu1h
Veteran lteserse Corps; Lieutenant +. a. Gucsin,
feGimcs:tal Quartcr1naster, Foty.nInth Missouri
Volunteers; Lieutenant uarrs Gaes, E1chty-siSth
lrtiana Volunteers; Lieutenant J. ii. Grosreuor,
Eighteenth Mfellsan Volunteers; Captain W. r,
tsarEhousc, Nineteenth InaianA Eatlcry; Cantafn
u. u. Gray. First Ohio ARTILLERY Captain r. D.
Hoppe, Seventeenth Veteran Reserve Corps; Cap
tain II. Ii. uowes, Assistant Quartermaster:
Lieutenant j. G. ". Hall, I,egimeutal Quarter.
maetcr, Firet Ohio Cavalry Lieutenant E. b, Hill
.er, Acting Assistant Quastcr1naster, Fifth
k7nsoz Volunteers; Lieutenant ~ II. ueu-
,l'sst, Eegimcntal Quarter1naster, One Hun
dred md Eightylt,izd Ohio yoluu-
ttcrs; Lieutenant E. L. ucr1ick, Rrsimental
t.HaI:crmaster, One Hundred and Fourth
illinois volunteers; Lieutenant n. Hllhousc,
seros.d Ohio cavalry; Surgeon Ii. Har-cy, Iwcn-
tic:A Iowa volunteers; Acitns Assistant Surgeon
N.S. huston, United States Volunteers: Major
w. c. Jones, Faymas:er, UnIted States Army;
Lieutenant ". a. johnson, Eighth Ohio solun-
tccrs; Captain II. l.. Johuson, Assistant Ad1atant
t'crera1; Captain Il. kfngsbury. Assistant Ouar-
tcrmn+tcr; Lieutenant Il. l.. Kcan, Acting Kcei-
mental Quartcrnastcr ForS-ifth Ohio volunteers:
Lieutenant i. 1indlcy, RegimenIai Quastcrmaster,
Flf'S-thsrd Illinois volunteers; Captain ]. II.
seeman, SIKH Ohio cavalry Captain 4. T. 3iau-
rhln. Assistant Quartctmaelcr; CAPTAIN II. E,
iAaek, fifst Arkansas cavalry; Captain r. W.
Mansfield, Thirteenth Michigan cavalry; Lieutenant
w i- Mcsstnscr, First Arkansas cavalry; Licnttn-
ant Joln a. Morton, Twcuty-thfrl Indiana yolnu-
tecrs; Lieutenant y. Newton, Second Ohio cav
airy; Lieutenant r. j. Owcna. Qnaztcrmaster
ffay-fourth Kentucky volunteers: Captain Vim.
Owens. Filth Ohio cavalry; Captain Vincent
Phelps, Assistant Quartcsnsuster; Captain Charles,
4. ictiibonc, Acting Assistant Qnarurmaslet
First WiscauEtn cavalry; Lieutenant Charles d.
Peck, Quastcruas.cr Thsrty-sixsh Wisconsin vo1-
unsecrs; 1icntcnant Charles j. phillipa, Assist
mt Cnar.cr1nastcr Eighteenth Ohio volunteers;
Co'ohcl c. II. D,cvOort, Sixteenth Veteran Re-
serve Corps; lieutenant Jotn .. Euttcs, Thi.-
secnti. 1ndiana cavalry; lieutenant J. C.. Rich
ards, Sixth Ohio cavalry; Captain j.. II.
lsotcsts. Sixth Ohio Cavalry; Lieutenant A. ],
Dowcn, reeimental quarter master, One Hundred
aid Elacteenth Illinois volunteers; CAPTAIN E.
H. Campbell, Tenth Ohio Cavalry Captain j, D.
lsvlf' eomm'+s afy subsistence quarter master;
Lieutenant Leroy Dana. Thiriy-ninth Illinois
volunteers Captain r. W Fsy, assistant quarter
master Captain Il. u. Foster, l2tl veteran TO-
eefvc corps; acting nsistant surgeon ". II. Finn.
United States Army ;1.fcutcn4nt j. A. Groesbeck.
scGtmental quarter master: nnh Iowa Ca;nlYy
Captain .IaG. Haskell, assistant qraztcr master
Captain B. F. johnson, forty-elshlh 1utllaua
Battery.
NATIONAL UNION coax17TEE.
The headquarters Of the National Cnion Rcput-
1ican Committee dulinE tho coming Convention
fIoN MEXICO.
Information Is received from the Rio Grandc to
the et1cct that Calsalrs, who has takcn command
Ut thu troops 1t that place and OF tho State of
Iamauliias. will carry ont tic policy iiausurated
By General Ca1ava1ca, his predecessor, and that
the two arc On tho most friendly terms.
GENERAL uowAnD's LETTER.
The fact was mentioned in these despntchcs a
few days since that General Howard had written
letter contradicting the statement tat tho order
dtsconntenauclnE tho Issue Of ra:ions to tho poor
whites in the South was fesucd ar the instance of
the prrtidcnt- The General, ntter denying the
md assuming the sole responsibility Of
the ordcr publishes the following letter from him
self 10 Secretary Stanton:
Wan DkrAls7aES1, nrEEAu OF REFreEEs,]
FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
WAsilS1IoS, D. T., Aug. 18th, 1856
Hon. f. ii. ssauton, Secretary of War:
s1N: In view OF the fact that charges aro
eofsn,stan.;y ma!e ~ BY large number Of prominent
are led by The 15n!eau fu afcness, and III consid
Grafton OF tlce tasements made By Inspector !Cen-
people who labor for support nre rendered idle By
lie T1onlise or hope OF Tatious from tile Govern
ment: and further consider Ing Tint tic crops arc
stAls nipu. recommend tlsat on anu aler The llrxt
day Of Scptesnbtr. ncAt, the isauc Of ratinna be
stsr,5 esssrtt91 TIC sisk in regularly organized
gees a:.d freedmen already existing. ard that the
State officials who may bo responsible for the
roo- be carefully notified Of th!s er,le-, 50 thai
they may assnrac the charge Of such indiScnt ref
ngece and freedmen as may not be embraced in
The 9eose cSccptions.
Very respectfully your obcdient servant,
MnjoF General and Commissioner.
Approved, to :ake effect on the arst Of October.
August sd, 1861. T. II: STANTON,
Secretary Of Waz.
GENERAL nowAnp's RECENT LETTER.
WAsu.SaToS, August as-Thc letter from Gen.
cral llowurd, Chief of The Freedmen Bureau, 10
lie Secretary Of War, Recommending fhe cesso.
ton OF rstIofs cxccpt to losptn!s afrcr Ociobcr