New-York tribune., 1867-09-07
stution the United States and faithful execution oil
the laws which have been made III pursuance Ihereol

,tuton OF the limited States and faithful execution Of
the laws which have been made III pursuant pursuant I
The forthcoming report of the Secretary of the
Treasury will show that over $l20,0O0,000 of our
national debt have been paid off during the fiscal
year ending June 3Oth 1867. Our national debt was
highest on the 31st of August, 1868, amounting
at that date TO 81 7j7 $50 81. In the "a months
that have elapsed we have paid off ,2dO 30
or a monthly average of over slO,5O0,UO III this
rate of reduction could he kept up in the future
the last dollar of the debt would be paid by July l.
1887, or in one month less than 20 years.
At least half dozen private dispatches have been
received here to-day from California, announcing
that the State has gone Democratic, the Democrats
electing a Governor the Legislature, and two out of
the three members of Congress. The California
Johnson politicians and lobbyists here are highly
elated and have been swarming the White House
all day. heaping congratulations on the President,
and urging him to stand firm. The President had
the dispatches Immediately sent to several Demo-
cratic meetings in Ohio, where Vallandigham and
Pendleton were speaking.
A private dispatch from Charleston, received In
Washington tonight says the staff and other officers
of Gen. Sickess command gave to him dinner,
7eryed in fine STYLE at the Mills House this evening
Gen. Candy and staff were the invited guests. The
best feeling prevailed and the following sentiment
was offered: "0ur departing guest the retiring
Commander carrying with him our aftectionate at
tachment, thoroughly earned. May prosperous
VOYAGE bear him where welcomes await him as cor
dial as our adieus are repetful." To this Gen.
Sickles responded in short speech.
The President this morning granted amnesty and
pardon TO William 5. Cushman, late Postmaster
under the Confederate Government at st. Landrys
Parish. Louisiana. The pardon was granted upon
the special request of the Hon Thaddeus Stevens.
Gen n b. Buford has inst been relieved from duty
rs special Indian Commissioner, and has been ap-
pointed by Secretary Browning Commissioner to ex-
anime the tenth section of the Union Pacific Rail
way, Eastern Division, i'll place of Gen. Frank L.
Blair. Gen BufOrd left for st. Louis to-day
The President has recognized Alexander Bellaigne
d. Bughas as Consul of France at Charleston, 3 C.;
Baron Albert De Vaux, Consul of France, at Rich
mond Va; J. A. Quinton, Consul of Belgium at New
Orleans; and Ignatius Sargent ViceConsul of Spain
at Maohias, Me.
Major HAYDEN Mcclellan has been appointed special
agent of the Post Office Department to take charge
of mails conveyed by the line of steamers from
san Francisco to Honolulu. He will leave New York
by the steamer of the 18th instant for San Francisco
and the latter post for Honolulu by the first steamer
which sails on the 1lth of October.
At 10 o'clock tonight the President received the
following dispatch dated San Francisco, this day:
I'VE have carried the State by 10000 eectng our whole
Legislature. This is purely triumph Of the policy of
you- administration, cOndemnmg distinctly Congress
sionsl reconstruction and negro suffrage North or south
"THOMAsJ j. HENLEY.
JOHN +. MCCAULEY."