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New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

Senator Sherman proposes to authorize the
increase of National Banking Currency to be
issued to those States which have not now
their pro rata share of currency under the
National Banking System, in proportion to
population. 1t is fact that the States Of
New-England, New-York, New-Jersey, and
Pennsylvania have more Banking Currency
than in 1860 by s1OO,OOO,OOO, and more Bank
deposits, which are more rapid form of cur
rency, by about s1OO,OOO,OOO while the States
south and west of Pennsylvania have slightly
less of both note currency and deposits than
they had before the war. AS the other States
have by far the larger area and population,
this inequality of banking facilities should not
exist. Its effects cannot fail to be stagnation
of industry, prices, and growth in the States
thus deprived.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

THE CHEROKEE AND OSAGE LAND JOBS
We trust Mr.. Julian's joint resolution will
pass, directing the President to withhold the
patents called for by the purchasers of the
lands alleged to have belonged to the Cherokee
and Usage Indians, but now occupied and i'm
proved, at great cost Of time, labor, and money,
by white settlers.
The facts relative to the Cherokee grant are
these. About thirty-seven years ago the Govern
ment held in trust for the Cherokee Indians
the sum of s5OO,OOO, and, having appropriated
it, gave the Cherokees instead deed of SOO,-
600 acres of land in what is now Southern
Kansas. The CherOkees never occupied the
lands, which were held in trust for
them by the Government until bona
fde white settlers moved upon them, took
possession and improved them, expecting
to obtain title under the Homestead and Preemp-
ton laws. Fifty thousand settlers had entered
upon the lands year ago, and tho number has
since greatly increased. In 1866 the CherOkees
asserted their claim, but proposed to sell the
lands to the Government for cost A treaty was
made, providing for their sale, either to settlers
at low rates (as a blind), or in a lump, for not
less than SSOO,OOO The lands, being worth at
American Emigrant Company for exactly $780,
OOO-$25 900 down, and S775,0O0 on very long
1--WE believe sixteen years. time. This appears to
have been done while Mr.. Harlan was Secre-
tary of the Interior.
When Mr. Browning succeeded, his righteous
indignation was naturally aroused that so con-
siderable a plum" should not have been re-
served for him, and he accordingly set aside"
the sale to the Emigrant Company, and
made another sale to Joy of Detroit.
After some conflict, however, these two
grantees made joint stock of their conflict
ing titles, in order to make common warfare on
the settlers. The lands are now considered
worth at least SS,OOOOOO, leaving a profit to the
operators of $7,2000O0, to be wrung from the
hard earned savings of the Kansas settlers.
One of them writes to Mr.. Julian that half of
the adult males on these lands were in the war
for the Union, and helped fight for the nations
life Some of them were broken down and
shattered in health in Rebel prisons, and others
bear the marks of Rebel shot and she'll Their
inquiry is: as this sale of our homes the re-
"turn our country makes usl"
Tho Usage lands, consisting of 100000
acres, appear to have been bought of the
usage NaIlon On Juho Oh lhsU, IhIouBh Tic
influence of Indian Commissioner Taylor, by
Mr.. Sturgis of Chicago, the principal owner of
a proposed Leavenworth Lawrence and Gal
weston Railroad. for $1,6OO,OOO, being twenty
cents an acre, payable in fifteen years. Gen.
c. w. Blair of Fort Scott bid S2OO0,OOO, with
thel guarantee of reservation for half-breeds
and school lands; but Gen. Blair had not
"seen" the right parties in the right way to
have his bid heard and needed. We hope
prompt investigation will be made into both
these sales, and that efficient measures will be
taken to declare them null and void, at least
as to innocent settlers.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

equal certainty the entire negro VOTE as mass VIII go
for Grant and Colfax." --'r .
Yes, Sir. it WILL with equal certainty"
and 80 will that of every other reconstructed
State, except possibly Alabama. You have
tried to act for once like men of sense; but
the Rebel Copperhead element of your party is
too strong and too bitter. So you crawl back
into your old shell-renew the clamOr for
q "White Mans Government" and prepare to
get such another whaling as you courted and
secured in 1854. You have made your bed,
gentlemen! just as you did by your Chicago
platform of four years ago. We shall meet
you at Philippi; and, after you shall have been
thoroughly thrashed you will own that you
cOurted and deserved it
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16
FIRE IN BROOKLYN.

BURNING OF A SAW AND FLAMING MILL, . sAsn
AND BLIND FACTORY, AND TEAEAhN'
HOUSES Loss ABOUT S60,OO.
What eventuated in a large and disastrous
fire broke out early last evening in the threestory oA
building No. rs wyckoff-st, in Brooklyn IL was u1
covered at 6, O'Clock in the second story from the Ho
flames spread with great rapidty through tne O'"S
floors and through the several adjoining buildings " ~
quickly ignted and were or less injured WIN INC"
contents Il was apparent that the fire to be ser
ions one from the extensive amount OF nramaoie
ia contained In and around the buildings, sucn % Ls,
ings plank boards, and moulding wood Tug lhe1.r mi
was not very bright reflected, but It's ntensI snd
dense smoke which surged up from the burning p sS
floating high In the air IN contlhnou' r, 1rst or
The full particulars OF the fire are as follows ~ h sry
iginated In the used by John = LOOMS lol s
ing OF timber how IL was kinded was not ncen.
but the owner thought that II was the act OF Al
diary II extended TO the sash, blind and door y, Nos
factory of Hoyt Son. who occupied portions ~ orinr
II and 7e wyckoffst. and TO the turning anu Isnes
mill of Messrs. Hayes Co.; IN tne ee.taSlish.
building also, to the carpetoeatihg go o t,Tther
on In the same street The occupants OF these as
Messrs James Reynolds Patrick Mack William Sni mil
and Patrick McGarvn. In the rear OF MI Loons % mar
was a yard filled with timber timber ln;D0 THIS was from
Wyckofst into warren-st, in which ,Sess
II horses and several vehicles was on nre pus ~
were got out without injury The tremen were veg s.
hoient and only one act was mehSneS Sai ~ Chef En-.
gineer The total loss OF property was esuJa m r a.
10 be between 10000 and s00o, as follows MI NC, an
Iomas on buildings $4,000, ON machinery tv"a a.ys
stocks, $4,000; Messrs Hart son sdoW; hs insa-
rance TO be 1850. One Of the other owners reiuA'N
tell his amount,
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

The House of Representatives yesterday, by
vote of II Yeas to So Nays, voted $1,5OO,O00
out of the Peoples Treasury into the pockets
of "certain employees in the Civil Service of
1.-THE Government" t"-that is, the Clerks, Messen-
gers, Doorkeepers &C., in the several depart
ments at Washington, and the Printers en-
ployed in the National Printery. If the Senate
should concur-as we greatly fear it will-the
Military officers will insist on being served as
well as their Civil compeers; and that will
take Two OF Three Millions mOre-and this
when our National Debt exceeds Twenty-Five
Hundred Millions, drawing greater aggre-
gate of annual interest than any other
Debt that does or ever did exist, when our
treasury seems to have run behndhand
no less than Ten Millions during the last
month"; and when our specie-paying six Der
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

The revolutionary struggle in Hayti, of which
we publish late news this morning, threatens
to be much more serious affair than conflicts
of this kind Overwhelmingly of too
frequent occurrence in that country for its
prosperity and progress-have usually been.
Former rulers of Hayti, upon finding the bulk
of the people opposed to continuance of their
rule, have yielded to the popular will, and,
rather than be the cause of bloodshed, have
abdicated and left the country. Salnave, it
appears, whose true character as a despot is
now coming to light, has determined to fight
to the last, depending upon the support of
portion of the army and of the lower orders of
the population lof Port-au-Prnce. His over
throw seems certain, but his Obstinacy and
desperation may be the means of intlicting
terrible calamities upon Hayti.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

tween gift enterprise swindlers and tie authori-
ties, by allowing the rascals to make use OF
their names at the Post-Offce. We alluded
especially to the notorious firm of Geo rye A.
Cooke & CO., managers of fraud callett the
Riverside Orphan Institution whose letters
had been stopped by the Postmaster in this
city until they produced note of Identification
from Smith, Randolph g. Co., bankers of good
standing. whereupOn their mails were of neces-
sity given up to them. We have received from
the banking house in question the following
card
SIR: AS you favor us with unenviable prominence in
your editorial columns among those who "are unwit-
tngy standing between the authorities and the gift en-
terprise swnders" and you add that he public have
right TO expect OF our merchants that they snail Know
TO what papers they ax their names we beg you VIII
state to the public that the paper in question read simply
& Co."
In procuring this mere identification from u.s. we do not
that they threw dust in eyes nor need the Post
master have been "dlsarmed thereby, II he suspected
fraud-which we surely did not. Our knowledge Of MT.
Cooke in Philadelphia covered many years. during whic
Co. af teTward gSS ss coal DEALER and finally banker
cupying handsome Office and apparently as Iar a we
doing legitimate banking business and Of his connec, rec
ton with gift enterprises or even o Ine 20 nor .
RVer'dS 0rpGsf 0S avs SMITH RaSpoEPa Co.
He,0-Y York, June 13 1868
We never supposed that Messrs. Smith, Ran
dolph g. Co. had any suspicion that they were
helping q fraud, but their card is such com
plete justification of our remarks that we
cheeIfully print it. The Postmaster has no
power to detain letters on suspicion that the
person to whom they are addressed is swim
dler But most of these lottery rogues operate
under fictitious names, and when their mails
are stopped it is ON the ground that the per-
sons applying for them are not the men they
pretend to be- A note of Identification, there
fore, from respectable firm, is all they need
AS soon as that is obtained, the Postmaster is
disarmed The lesson which business men may
draw from this case is, not to give any sort OF
identification to firm until they know the
character of its transactions. Maneuvers such
as George A. Cooke & Co. have just practiced
are very common, and justice is defeated by
them oftener than the public imagine.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

The bill introduced into the Senate last week
by Mr.. Davis for facilitating the decision OF
questions of conflict of jurisdiction between
the States and the United States, provides
that when any State of the Union deems that
there is a conflict between its own constitution
or laws and an act of Congress it may file
petition IN the Supreme Court setting forth
the points at issue, and the case so brought
shall take precedence of all other cases on the
docket. Pending the suit, any Justice of the
Supreme Court may order an injunction to stay
proceedings under the Act of Congress COM
planned of, but the Supreme Court may modify
or dissolve the injunction at any time on
motion.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16
Smnstmnts, &t.

ART GALLERY, No: S45 Broadway-Day and Eve
nmgGTst National Painting THE New Republic Or Emancipation
BROADWAY THEATER This Evening at s.
Flash of Lightning" j. X. Mortimer Miss Blanche Grey
BRYANT's NEW MINSTREL HALI-This Evening
smmAny Building Foureuthst adjoining Academy ofMuAc Ne"
York at f2 AID LOTTERY Of Life" Bryants Mnstres
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN This Evening at s.
Theodore ThOmas's Garden Concerts
FHTH-AvE. ART GALLERY, corner Fourteenth-sta;-.
Day Old oSken Bucket KAulbah Cartoon The
Era Of the Reformation"
Fowler & WEILS's FREE LECTURES, No. S9S
BroadwA-Ths Afternoon at for ladies and gentemen-Subees
How 20 Train Child"
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DEsIGN-Day and Evening.
Pictures and Sculptures
NIBLOS GARDEN - This Evening at "a. -" Inc
White Fawn." Pansienne Ballet Troupe
OLYMPIC THEATER-1hs Evening at 8.-"Humpty
Dumpy" G. L. foI. Mdle. Sangah
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREIs, No. 5S5 Broadway
This Evening Birch Wamboh. Bernard and Baekus - -,
WALLACKs-1his Evening at S.-"LOttery of Life"
John BroughaB.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16
WHAT I'VE MEAN BY ORG GANIzATION

There are to-day about $500 Election Dis
tricts in this State, and the number may yet
be increased $50 to 800 by the Councils of this
and other cities. These Districts will contain
from 100 up to 600 legal voters each, averaging
by Organization briefly is
1. To furnish information, through periodicals
and pamphlets, to all who will read
2. To obtain a complete list of the Legal
Voters in each Election District;
8. To provide efficiently and seasonably
against the polling of Illegal Votes.
Each of these ends is important; but the
first is the most urgent and the last most indis-
pensabe. Illegal Voting In this State defeated
Henry Clay in 1874. Illegal Voting very nearly
wrested this State from Lincoln in 1864, when
his clear majority of the Legal Voters was not
less than Twenty-Five Thousand. Illegal Vot-
ing last Fall-mostly in this City and Brooklyn
-swelled the Democratic majority not less than
Twenty Thousand Votes And Illegal Voting,
unless efficiently, systematically fought, will
swindle Grant and Colfax out of the thirty
three Electoral Votes of New-YOrk in 1863.
No one ever heard of q Democrat who was
heartily desirous that Illegal Voting should be
prosecuted or punished. No intelligent Demo
crat can doubt that, if Twenty-Five Thousand
| Illegal Votes should be polled in our State next
Fall, Grant and Colfax will be at least Twenty
| Thousand votes worse in the result than if the
poll had been pure. And there ,0H be more
than Twenty-Five Thousand Illegal Votes
polled here if there be no early, thorough prep
aration by the Republicans to keep them out
And those votes will probably put the State
against u.s.
We have urged the meeting of our State
Convention at an early day, with express refer
ence to the object proclaimed above. A part of
our Election Districts will organize themselves,
circulate the documents, will enroll their legal
voters, and provide for keeping out illegal
votes. without interference or prompting; the
residue will do nothing of the kind. When
the polls are closed and the votes returned-if
nothing shall meantime be done to rouse the
sluggards-we shall have the poor consolation
of showing that if this district or section had
done as well as that, &c, &C., we should have
carried the State. The work of a State Con-
vention, and of the organization thereby initi-
ated is to provide that there shall be no If in
the case We have the legal voters-we must
take care that they all vote, and that frauds do
not nullfy their verdict
Every COpperhead organ is now claiming
Pennsylvania, on the strength of her last Octo-
Der contest, when Judge Sharswood was re-
elected by few votes, put through by means
of Naturalization papers forged for the pur-
pOse The County of Luzerne has notoriously
been focus of these frauds for years. See
how her poll has been swelled by them:
He1l4lbl (r0l
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16
%etu'llotk Daily Gribm1rs.

THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, issued this
morning, contains all the current political and
general news up to the time of publication,
and all the leading editorial articles which
have appeared in our daily edition. During
the campaign it will be indispensable to all
who take an active interest in politics but are
so situated that they cannot be regularly
served with THE DAILY. In its fullness and
thoroughness in every department, it is unsur-
passed by any other than daily newspaper in
this country, and it is superior even to most
daily journals
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

cent. bonds are selling some twenty per cent.
below par. Under such circumstances, Con
gress is bored and button-holed into giving
these employees twenty per cent. more than
their stipulated pay, and the employees, in
stead of earning their pay at their desks and
stands crowd the galleries of the House, and
cheer the swindle vociferOusly!
We do not, at this moment know the name OF
a single member who voted for or against this
monstrous wrong but weicannOt withhold the
avowal of our conviction that those who thus
voted away the public money proved unfaithful
to n grave trust, and ought not to be trusted
again. They must cherish ideas of right and
duty which would better befit private station
Every one must realize that the thirst for
office. now 80 general, has become fruitful
source of corruption and abuse. Our young
men (our young women, tOO alasD forsake the
ways of productive industry to worm their way
into Office. Our right arm aches at the recol-
lection of the infnity of letters we have been
fairly browbeaten into writing for these
aspirants. Who blames themP Certainly, not
we. You, Members of Congress and other
place -givers, are responsible to God and Man
for their perversion You plunder productive
Labor to swell the prizes of Office-seeking, and
thus fill the land with borers and beggars for
clerkships &C., who, but for you, would have
been honest tOilers for the bread earned by
Productive Industry! May Heaven open your
eyes to the enormity of the wrong you thus
perpetrate! and may the People cause you to
"see stars at the next Election!
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

sist OF % officers and attsna.r,. -,
l2S privates. Each regiment of oava,rv .suu snu
eonsls' Oh II officers and attendants and n
troops; each troop of 20 officers and attendants
ana from % to 7s privates Each regiment
infantry shall consist of 10 officers and 10 com.
panies each Of IS officers and attendant.
ana oo prlyates. -Four of the regiments sban
oe colored, and there shall be regiment.
OF the Veteran Reserve Corps The bin n,'
vldes minutely for the government of officer.
soldiers, recruits, cadets &C.. while in the ser'
vice and for their pay. This organization would
make the army consist of 81, $50 men. artillsrv
cavalry and infantry, beside the miscellaneon.
and reserve corps. The bill is accompanied bv
a bill establishing rules for the government =,
the armies of the United States.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

Internal Revenue Collector Jno. II. An
derson and three of his inspectors, all belong
ing to the Richmond (Va.) District, have been
found guilty by the United States District
Court of colluson with whisky distillers in de-
frauding the Government. They were sen
fenced by Chief-Justice Chase, yesterday, to
nav certain fines and undergo imprisonment
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

The Post Office Department has accepted a
bid for the carrying of the mails from the
terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad to
Virginia City, Nevada. 1t is reported in Wash
ington that Wells, Fargo g. Co., whose bid
was rejected, will buy up all the other bidders
and secure the contract, at an enormous figure,
for
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

A delegation of Whisky dealers from the
West are in Washington trying to persuade
the Committee on Ways and Means to reduce
the tax on Whisky to so cents per gallon. The
Committee have considered the suggestion
favorably and will report bill lessening the
present rate of tax on the article specified.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

~ Kansas, The Rainy Season, The Indian
Country, The Tennessee Manual Labor University,
The Courts The Usage Land JOB, The Money ar
ticle and The Markets may be found on the second
page; Shipping Intelligence on the third; NeW
Publications on the Sirth, and Real Estate on
fLe ooroofL
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16
Augur.

The nomination of Gen. Mott as Minister to
Costa Rica has been withdrawn by the Presi-
dent, because the Senate was on the point of
rejecting it.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

A very neat and expressive Grant and Colfas
letter envelope bearing on its face the Republican Ma
tional ticket and its back synopsis OF the
Platform has just been ssned by Wm r. Lyon ''''
No 637 Pearl-st (See advertsement)
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

Yesterday was the gala day of the year at
West Point, and our special correspondent de-
scribes the scenes in letter printed in an
other column.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

The House Military Committee will probably
report this week upon the new Articles of War
prepared by Gems. Sherman, Sheridan, and
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

another column that the prizes offered for the
four best essays on the Legal organization OF
the people to select candidates for office" has
been awarded
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

Full details by mail of the political troubles
in New-0rleans, mentioned by telegraph few
days ago, will be found in another column.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

The Jerome Park races were enjoyed 10y the
large crowd which witnessed them yesterday
Rapture, Lancaster, Local, Urbana, and
Nemesis were the winners of their respective
clasaee
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

We published a paragraph few days ago
that respectable business firms in
this city something's unintentionally stand be.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

The Hon. George H. Boxer, Secretary of the
Union League of Philadelphia, advertises in
New-York tribune., 1868-06-16

These monstrous majorities for Mcclellan,
Clymer, and Sharswood, were fabricated by
means of forged Naturalization papers, stained
with coffee to divest them of their natural
rawness of appearance, and otherwise fixed up
so that aliens could vote on them without fear,
and Democratic election judges would take
them without hesitation. Such are the means
whereby Grant is to be swindled out of the
Presidency, if audacious, INSCRIPTIONS villainy
shall prove equal to the emergency.
Republicans we must be so organized that
fraudulent Naturalization papers shall nowhere
pass unchallenged, and fraudulent votes be no.
where polled To this end, we must organize
in each Election District, BEGINNING NOW.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1868-10-01
WESTMINSTER MARKETS,
aeported Expressly for the ApvocArE by Thos
e. Sellers Il Co. ~ & "a
BALTIMORE MARKETS..
WHOLESALE PRICES.
TUESDAY, Sept. 29th

.475.st,s So. TUESDAY, Sept. 29th 1860.
/. FIour.-Howard, Street Super and Gut
Extra 8 00aS9 90, do Shipping Extra go
aS1O25. do High Grades 10 50aSll %, DO
Family IL 5oa$12 SO. Western Shipping
Extra 9 5OaS1O 90; do Choice Extra ~ u: 70
a$1O IS; do Family II 25a$11 70. CITY
Mills Super s 0OaS 900; do Standard E T;
ira 10 25a$11 Is; do Shipping Brands EX-
ira IL 25aSl1775. Baltimore High Grade
Extra IS OOa$I3 so. Rye Flour 8 5oa
SO on. Corn Meal 5 75a$6 90.
Grain. Receipts of Wheat to-day were
1859 bushels white and 1896 bushels red.
We report sales, viz: 100 bushels far 10
prime white at o OOa$2 As; 100 bushels
good do at 2 4OaSO 90. Corn-Sales of 100
white at ST. 100 bushels yellow at s. 26.
Oats-sales of 200 bushels at 75a00 cts.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, I
H Sept. 10Th, 1868.
Beef Cdttle.-The offerings at the Scales
during the past week amounted to 2459 heao;
The prices ranged as follows: Old Cows and
Scalawags, at 00a$4 so; ordinary thin
Steers, Oxen and Cows 00a$6 90; far quail
ity Beeves case so; and the very best Beeves
at OOaSS % per 100lbs. the average price
being about SIS rs gross. f@
Sheep.-Fair to good sheared Sheep AT
4a51 cents, per lb. gross
Hogs. Prices ranged as follows: fair to
good live Hogs II 50a$15 90 per 100 lbs
net.
-Unwashed at 80 to 81 cents; tub
washed As to 81 cents; No. 1, pulled, 2o to
35 cents.
Leather.-City Slaughter 43 to 46 cents;
Rough Skirting 40 to 43 cents; Spanish Sole
81 to SO cents; Country Slaughtered 80 to
AZ cents.
Hides. Association Steer at l49 to %
cts; Cow 10 to IA cents; Buenos Ayres q
to % cents, Gold.
Hay-Good to prime baled Timothy at
1SaS20 per ton.
Feathers-Are in better request. Strict
ly prime rule at 55a65 cents per Id; medium
live geese 00a75 cents per lib; common
kinds 4Oa50 cents per ID.