The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-20
FROM WASHINGTON THIS AFTERNOON.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO EVENING rELBGRAPH.J
WASHINGTON August 20.

National Convention OF johnson Sol
. diers.
The Philadelphia Convention seems to have
failed to meet the wants of the fastdious war
heroes of the Presidents party, aad on Saturday
night they met in the ladies' paror of Wizards
and arranged for a special demonstration from
the soldiers of the Union army at Chicago on
the 18th of September. General steadman pre-
sided. Generals Custer Rousseau and Ewing
we're solictous that the soldiers of the Rebel
army should be invited to meet with the loyal
legions of the North. Generals Meredith and
Brown objected. They thought. sectional pre-
judices yet ran too high to make any such q
gathering harmonious, and they would have
only those invited who were in the Union ranks.
General Hobart desired that invitations should
be extended TO all officers and soldiers of the
Union army. He wished to take all his old
officers rather than select those only who sup
port the Presidents policy. He desired it should
bea purely military convention, without political
distinction. General Steadman, from the chair,
appealed to the gentlemen present that any
such arrangement as wolld admit soldiers Of any
political complexion would destroy the whole
object OF the Convention. The radicals would
spend money enough and would have more men
than any other party, and would vote them (the
present movers) down. This, being greeted
with applause, was taken as the sense of the
meeting, and the Rebel sympathizing Generals
subsided. General Meredith desired to have
the Convention held in Indianapolis, Indiana,
where the whole people were frightfully radical.
He believed 1t would have good effect upon
their minds. General Rousseau suggested BOs-
ton, Mass, or Charleston, S. G.. The Western
country was overrun with radicalism and there
would be no chance for the johnson men.
General Brown was opposed to a sea-
board city. They held big meeting at st.
Louis lately, which was O success. He advo-
Gated Chicago, where they could thwart the
plans of General Logan. Finally, after consider
able jarring, Chicago was decided upon by
vote OF 81 to II. Generals Custer, Meredith, Rous
seau, McCook, and Crook we're appointed q
Committee to draft call, and we're instructed
to address it to all who indorsed the policy of
President Johnson. General Walter B. Skates,
| Collector of Customs at Chicago, General Thos.
| Osborne, General H. N l.. Mann, Collector of In =
| ternal Revenue at Chicago; General G. W. Hotch-
kiss, Colonel A. Fl. Markland, late General Agent
of the Post Office Department, and General
| Charles W. Wallace, were appointed a commit
| tee of arrangements. On motion of General
| Custer, an Invitation was extended TO all officers
| present in the city, and favorable to the pro-
| posed convention, to sign their names to the
| call. The following names were signed on the
| spot:-
| General j. S. Fullerton, General McCoOk,
| General A. Mcdowell, Brigadier General r. G..
Curtis, General Crlttenden, of Missouri, Gene
| raj George A. Custer, Generals Hugh and
| Thomas Ewing, General Durbin Ward, General
| Rousseau, General Meredith, General Brown,
| General Hobart, General Steedman, and Gene
| raj Sullivan.
Et.inn L. md -,
Bell were appointed Corresponding Secretaries.
! The meeting was in session about an hour The
| call will be issued on Wednesday.
| The National Finances.
Fractional currency printed last week.
lOc., SlO7,76O; 25c., $142,5OO; 5Oc., $4,000
1928, ,26O.
Amount of currency shipped to National
Banks, $94,7OO; Assistant Treasurer, Phila-
delphia, Sl0O,OOO; Assistant Treasurer, New
York, 5O,OOO-$229, 900. Mutilated currency
destroyed. 1927, 200.
Cash in vauts.-United States notes, 81, 800, 900;
National Bank notes, 81, 1926, ,O7s; fractional cur
rency, S174, 400; mutilated currency, $l6 lO7 80;
specimens, S36, ,S15; gold $323, $685. silver, S25eO;
cents, $50; fve-cent coins, $780,
Disbursements per week, on account.-War
Department, 81 2l8,756; Navy Department,
81, l56, ,sO4; Interior Department, $4,34l, ,79s.
Total, SO, ,Sl7,359.
National Bank notes issued for the week,
| S993,573. Total issued, $685. 4O3,77
Internal Revenue receipts on Saturday,
Sl57s 473'65 receipts for the week. SS 100 291 So.
Outrages Upon UniOnists i'm Alabama.
A letter received from well-known citizen
of Alabama, dated August 6, 1866, by Captain
Bingham, Secretary of the loyalst COnven-
TONERS, states:-
al have seen DIR. Stewart, of Herd county, who
was an Assistant Surgeon in the 1st Alabama Union
Cavalry He tells me that about three weeks ago he
was notified that the presence of man who had
deserted his country and gone to the Yankees was
not agreeable to the patriotic Unionoving citlzens
OF Herd county Georgia, ana that he would not be
allowed to live there; whereupon the Doctor then
Saturday an attack was made on him, and three
shots fred at him by some OF the same parties
| that notified him to leave These same men who
thus assaulted United States officer profess to
| belong 10 the johnson Union party, and say that
thev are more loyal than the Doctor, because he
reason of the assault Unless things cnange, the
| name OF Andrew johnson will soon become as great
a terror to Union men South as that of JEFF. Davis
| ever was During the 1t wss treason against
the Confederacy to oppose JEFF Davis; now 1t il
treason to oppose ANDY THIS letter may cost me
my life, but will take the risk"
Land Sales I'm Minnesota.
The Winnebago City (Mnn.) Land Office
makes the following returns for July: Disposed
of for cash, 1889 acres; Homesteads, IT. 3O5 acres
College Scrip, 64OO acres; Warrants, 176l acres /;
total, S6,755 acres.