Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-09-30


here for several days past, will leave this eve
ming to resume command of the Department of
Inc Cumberland. Major General George I'll
Thomas VIII reach here about the latter part
OF the week, 10 serve on the Dyer CouTs Of In
curry, which meets on Monday nex,. D.rlng
the absence of General Thomas, General g ran
ger Will have command of his department.
VISIT OF GENERAL BLAIR.-General Fra nix
+. Blair, Jr., arrived here last night and
spent to-day at the residence of his father at
Silver Spring. He will leave for the West
again by the evening train.
CHICAGo.-An interesting account of this
go-ahead city and some of the vast improve.
ments in progress or contemplated there will
be found in the editorial correspondence ON
our second page.
Hon. HORACE CAPRoN, Commissioner of
Agriculture, left the city last evening for
Rochester, New York. TO attend the agricultu-
raj fair to be held in that city. During his ab.
sence r. T. McLain, chief clerk OF the depart.
ment, will be Acting Commissioner
NAVAL CADETs.-Up TO the present time the
following young gentlemen have passed their
probationary examination, and been admitted
as Cadets at the Naval Academy at Annapolis:
IL. N. La. ~
man. Ten Eycke ID. w. veeder, of New Yor!.:
h. L. Clnehart, Pennsylvania; A. T. Freeman
New Jersey; +. f. Sawyer, Massachuset
H. Burns, Ohio; I. +: Dixon. at large: Alex.
Rukland, Maryland; Jas. H. Wenlock, Ken
lucky; VIM. Garrett, Chas. T. Mitchell, Ten
nessee; A. '. Dockery, North Carolina.
THE DETACHMENT OF THE 10Th INFANTRY
on duty in Virginia has been sent to Tennessee
as follows: Company d 10 Franklin county .
C, X, A Red ford countv
rutherford county. The removal OF these
troops leaves only I,500 in Virginia.
PROMOTIONS IN THE TREAsURY.-The fol-
lowing promotions have been made in the
Treasury department since the 18th instant:
First Auditors OffiCe.-Thaddeus S:urgs,
from Sd TO ith class; VIM. H Kinney, from Ist
Third Auditors Ofice-T BE. Spangler.
L. I. Gardner, and W. G. Reddall, from LIST TO
% class.
SUKRATT's COUNSEL having assured the Dis
trict Attorney that he would appear to ans wer
any indictment the grand Jury may find against
him, II has been decided not TO issue another
warrant for his arrest, but to await the action
Of the grand jury at the next term of the court.
Hon. q. II. BROWNING, Secretary of the
1aierior, Will return here on SATURDAY evening
from his recent visit to the Greenbrier White
Sulphur Springs. ....
GENERAL SHERIDAN, it is believed, will.
within the next two weeks, make such a move-
ment against the hostile Indians ON the frontier
as T. put an end to the apprehensions Of gen.
eraI Indian war.
THE REPUBLIc OF COLOMBIA, formerly New
Gren ida, hes paid INTO the United States Trea-
sury S23S,OO0 indemnity to citizens of this
country for spoliations, etc, during the Pana.
ma rlots some years ago. A balance of SS3,OOO
is stIll due.
Mr.. WELLEs, of the Treasury Department, it
is understood, will prepare a statement show
ing the incerTectness Of the financial exhibit
recently published over the signature OF Mr.
DeImar, OF the Statistical Bureau.
BREyKT MAJOR GENERAL CANBY, com.
mandiDg the Department of Washington, by
General Orders No. 81, Just issued. announces
Breyet Lieut.. Colonel M II. Stacey, Captain
18th Infantry, as Acting Assistant Inspector
General and Discharge Officer OF the Depart
menI, vice Brevet Major General Carr who has
been relieved for assignment TO duty with hIs
regiment.
PoLITICAL.-Hon. Schuyler Colfax will be
present at the meetings at Lafayette, Indiana,
tomorrow, at Logansport Oh Friday, and al
Indianapolis ON saturday.
Gen. Mcclellan was serenaded in New
York last night by the Mcclellan legion.
"A Democratic meeting was held In Pitts.
burg, Pa, opposite the St. Charles Hotel, on
Monday night. Gen. Frank +. Blair delivered
an address. ....
- Hon. Henry Stanbery, late United States
Auornsy General, addressed a Seymour and
Blair meeting az Lancaster, Ohio, last Satur.
day.
The New York Ssn announces that John
Allen, the "wickedest man." Will be the Dem.
ocraiic candidate for the Legislature in the dis
trlct In which he resides
Hon. Francis Thomas, Of Maryland, is
canyassing Pennsylvania, and is now speak
ing m Hon John Cessna's district.
General Butler, in his recent speech, SUBJ
stahtially abandons the ideas he had pre- yious-
ly sustained in relation TO the puolic debt
question. Among the resolutions which he
offered is one pledging the national faith and
honor TO the payment of the public creditor,
''not only according TO the letter but the sprrit
OF the laws under which the contracts were
made" while another one pronounces against
all attempts 10 deprecIate the value of the cur
rency OF the country. 1t is stated that ths dis
satisfied Republicans in Mr.. Butlers district
Will unanimously nominate Mr.. X III. Dana as
an opposing candidate, a. their convention IN
the Filth District OF Massachusetts, on Monday
next.
In the Tenth Congressional Distinct of
Massachusetts Hon. Henry L. Dawes, Rspub-
lIcan, has been renominated. He served in the
Goth, - tn, 3sth, and 39th Congress, and was re.
elected 10 the 3Uth Congress as a Republican,
by &, LIS votes against Ass TOR Chaplin, Demo-
crat.
- Hon. William Strong has resigned his posi-
ton as one of the Judges OF the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania Judge S-rong's term would
not have expired until Decemo Der, 1872. The
vacancy will have TO be filled by appointment
OF the Governor, and the commission tn us
iss ued will extend to December, 1869, as there
can be no election under the law 10 Nil the
vacancy until October Of next year.
Gen. Carl Schurz has been invited TO speak
in Iowa, but writes that all his time until the
Sd of November Is already taken up. He says
IN his letter :--"From all the States that have
visited have brought back the assurance that
the Germans will give a larger vote than ever
before, and have no doubt Iowa will prove
no exception TO the ruBe."
We learn from the Mobile Register OF the
23d instant, that q grand Democratic barbecue
tool place at w histler, Ala On the I'D. Dele
cations were present from several Mobile
Clubs, including the First Democratic Club.
Among other speeches, those OF Lewis Hender-
son and Claiborne Stores, colored men, men,
bers OF the First Colored Democratic Club, are
especially praised by the Register. They
LAS he'd without mercy the earpet-baggers and
scalawags." re
The Lynchburg pirgisian prints q letter
from John T.. Breckinridge, announcing th al
bs Will soon res ume his labors in behalf Of the
Democratic ticket '.for the restoration OF our
once glorious old country, and now overruu by
Wild tanaticism- This Breckinridge is not the
former Vice President OF the United States, but
an individual Of African descent bearing The