The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-01-18

similar list OF general officers or volunteers. IL
that there yet in the volunteer service forty
major generals and hundred and fortyone brigadiel
generals OF the former three are commanding dis
tricts, seventeen commanding departments, ve
special duty is leave and twentyone ordered
to be mustered out or the latter twenty
three commanding districts and departments,
six courts martial six assistant commissioners
In the Freedmens Bureau, ten other special
duty, four leave and one hundred and two are
ordered to be mustered out This leaves in the service
tweny-six major generals and forty-nine brigader
generals The highest in rank in the regular army are
as follows-Lcutenant General Grant Generals Haeck,
Sherman, Meade, Sheridan and Thomas. The Brigader
Generals Irwin Mcdowell, william s. Rosocranz,
Philip 81. George Cooke, John Pope, Joseph Hooker,
w. s. Hancock, John N. Scolel, o. How
ard, A. H. Terry and J. A. Rawlins The total number
of officers and men in the regular army Is 124 ocors
and 23 795 men, aggregate Of M319. or the officers
100 in the cavalry absent, 1l3 in tho artillery and
36s in the infantry. Of the 5,4,2 recruits
signed since the last return All the regiments except
tho Seventeenth, are assigned 10 military departments
and fast recruits received the unorganzed com
panes are formed and put route or places OF service
Companies already organized are receiving recruits
About Q 600 per month are being enlisted.
THE OHIO sESAToRsHIP.
this evening announced Grst that the question Of
postponing the election his friends poed afty throc
against the measure to thrtysix for 1t. On tho first
ballot In the was, Sherman forty six, Schonck
twentyeight and Bingham sixteen. On tho second bal.
lot sherman received ioy nine votes, being three
than majority Of all The republican members present
and absent
RECEPTION AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
The White House again ,hrongcd with visitors dur
ing the entire day. and compelled 70 leave
late in the afternoon witbou, having secured their
coveted Interviews william Marvin Senator elect from
Georgia John Van Buren and Robert Dale Owen were
among those received in the forenoon.
PERSONAL.
General Gordon Granger arrived at wlari's to-day
Twenty consecutive years Of satscd his
appetite for military honors, and he proposes resign
James A. Smith. recently confirmed United States AZ
torney for the Northern and Middle districts OF Alabama
has called the PRECEDENT and Attorney General within
lew days IN relation 10 his Official duties that State
and created nntterng impression the minds OF both
Major X. Knox, formerly OF General McPheFscn's
sian has been ordered 10 the plains In command ~ Fort
Ellsworth post some four hundred miles beyond Fort
Leavcnwoth, and viii leave sunday evening
Hesry J. Raymond gaye suan dinner party this
evening 10 Lieutenant General Grant and a other
distinguished persons. na at Ma
THE CANADIAN COMMITTEE
who have been In the city for few days here in
behalf OF the Reciprocity treaty. but ascertain II IL be
possible establish some friendly commercial rsgu
aiions between the countries to their mutual advantage
They exDec, the Presdent their return, from
Richmond 20 explnn rne iecnpgs ana wrncs u tue oS
naan government and people and may propose one or
more schemes for our consideiaiio
PREVENTION or SMUGGLING.
II is understood that bill 70 prevent s1uggling will
be introduced in the Senate Tomorrow. The causes
have mainly been made up from suggestions Of the Trea
sury Department and the penalty for evasicns Of dues
upon imported goods has much heavier than
In vogue before
rHy COLOMBIAN COMMISSION
met on Monday and Tuesday and disposed Of 1fly
more cases. Colonel Bdde for the United states, and
General Sa,zar og Colombia, being present. The cases
disposed OF those which unrepcsented xccpt
by eS Judse Dean, OF New York. who appointed TO
examine them and who lniing proofs, dismlssed
large number There only about thirty cases re-
maining and they arc the most important ones The
csses grovin OF the old Colombian bonds represent
ed by g. s. Cox ami Johp Sherwood, OF New York, are
pos iponed until Monday week, when the commission
will meet again. The OF the Pacific Steamship
Company and United States stcomshIp Company aud
Panama Railroad 10 be argued praLed briefs and
orally ~hen the board meel again
cosr or PUBLIc PRINTING AND BINDING.
i appears from the report cs the Superintendent Of
Public Printing that The net cost of the public printing
aud binding tor the yen. ending September last was
Si73l, Sos The close the rcbsioa h-s caused
siderable decrease In the roqus,ons Of the Executive
Department for printing, but with tns large Arnousi
N deferred printing foS corgrss> ard thsi which viii
b. orernd prsroni ses-on, there win ee eoub,is,
enough 70 WORK tho whole establishment up 70 H. fu
u. A.. -.
i-rs- ,syng n printing as1 binding the coairsc.
y,n whah existed previously 70 the extsetsbunoni OF
the a. osernncn: yrrling bc.c-s-
Aysn,css coloslzArics society,".
rhe sory.n.nih annual Flso.lug Of the Americsu Colo
nsstiop s,c,eiy was he'll i.s, evening" II not 80
largely asnded tha raestings have tean for segcr
years pasi; hr; a number u the old and nne
bonossi leaders Among the arditJsS The
rerort Iia,ss that the ba,Ance IN the raaury At
tlse comr,eBceincn, cf the year Tns sIs2S l fbc re-
sapis have been From donstonS ~ sss ~ and from
xtesri io1sflca for the Barbados expedition,
ST. sOx -; IRON IeEnces s5.ss Os; from the govern.
nent os TIE United States bng 6nsi payments Tor tue
support u The rccnp'u-ci Aircaas landed al Liberia IN
isso slG56a So iron insofei fund realized 10 meet
cspsiac' Of siavranis si 200 aud from other
si3.r % fhc total sosn, for the year s s45si9 20
The bsrsrfoeats for the ,a,e period were ss IA S.
OF With $3.50 20 for pasaTc arc the usual sup
por, &C, ~ An-ican smarnss aud tIoss7 ss ~ss Zoe
the Bsrbs.o. expedition, leaving the cash On hand.
Janoarg l. Is.a ssos8 - ~ chs ht,er ~ as ~ y
awaiting the order ~ ,hs T. deran aJihorities snd
tho bslure staC o. " % the credit ~ the scie,y
The asa.oer Of .,mgrsnts liberia during ths Ussi
i~elss niunihi Wa age hanirei aud twoniy seven,
rxssrdns tho enlgrsfion 4 sry year dnes isae
On~ tsndrcd ,Dd seventy two sm rants ~ho sere
scnl by frll expedition from, Bamorn and who
wer~ = to caS vnows frcisl, anG Who ~ere frpu,
and near fyuchbarr vifin arrived sanity N fAhcria
The rro-p,u sc The future that Ine society viii
.0on hsvs npfs than DO Intelligent freedmen
coniassy a. questions r. si,vc ~ 'heir transfer
LeEis. ro.r III Af'oah rsrailc, Ggriog the last
four saf hs4 dei sivei much ~ ihn AID annually
turni,oei fr,n ,hs osauty, Lac been ssxiag feiy