The New York Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. All business or news let and telegraphic despaiches must be addressed New Yore Heravo. ‘ Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not bo re- turned. Volume XXXIL No. a AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Rir Van Wivaus. WALLA THEATER: Bro a vs Diversion—Buack-Eyxo 5 BROADWAY THEA r. QERMAN STADT THE Nos 4 and 47 Bowery.— Eve Vexrotors Unscuun, & reet.—Margta An- IEATRE, oppo YoRK ms, NEW Kque ¥ LA U Avapoin, Tux WonpEnrut UE THEAT . O14 Broadwa .k¥'s MINSTIELS. —Wuirs, Corrox SAN FRANCISCO MINS PLAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SI NG AND BO RLKSQuES, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTE 4 Dancus, Ecce ake, Hum BUNYAN UAL Pusaiam. “ HOOLEY'S 0 INSTRELSY, BALL BROOKLYN Dons Bor or Maxcus HOUSE, n—Tre Dome Gr msbure —Tae ov Genoa. AMERIC. AN IN N oF Narionat IN- EUM OF ANATOMY, 413 Broadway.— {This establishment does not advertise in the New Yore Hexano. | ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteenth street. —Trauias Orzxa—ine Hvcurors, New York, Fridny, October 11, 1867. THE NOW sas. EUROPE. The nows report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day, Octovor 10, The Garibaldian invaders of the Papal territory were ain engaged with the Pontifical troops and were, it is @aid, again defeated. The revolutionists assert that a ising will soon take place in Rome in favor of the “party of action.” ; Engian@ remained seriously excited by the fear of an- Other Fenian outbreak. Troops were under orders in London to march to garrison Carlisle Castio, and all the volunteer armories in the country are to be guarded and placed ina state of defence. The Engiish Parlia- ‘mont will, it is thought, meet on the 19th of November. Cambridge Uifiversity has conferred the degree of Doc- tor of Laws on each of the American Bishops attending: the Pan-Anglican Synod. The municipality of Vienna prays for a revision of the Austrian comcordat with Rome, THE CITY. An important meeting of the Board of Aldermen took place yesterday, at whick acommunication was received from the Mayor informing ‘the Board that the Court of Appeals had decided the licensing power to be vested in tho Corporation, A re-ojution was thereupon adopted re-onforeing (ho ordinances which were previously aa- nulled when they were taken out of the pewer of the city. A meoting of the Board of Councilmen was also held Yesterday, when resolution was adopted rescinding a Previous one, permitting the Park Bank to advance its columns on the Broadway sidewalk. A strange case is now pending inthe Essex Market Police Court, in which a woman named Catharine Petor- gen claims the} defendant, Coristopher Petersen, as her hhasband. Her two children look very much like bim; her sister positively identifies him; his name js con- fossed to be the same as hers, aud the woman herself Bwears positively that he was married to her eloven years azo in Montreal, and is the father of ber children. On the other hand, the defendant stolidly protests that he does not know the woman or the children; that he mover was in Montreal, and brings witnesses to prove that he was in Norway at the time the marriage is al- Ieged to have taken plac> in Montreal, The Judge hay- dog hear {| the evidence reserved his decision uutii next Saturday. Mr. Rufus Androws delivered a lengthy address toa meoting of conservative republicans last night, in which ho exposed the wire pulling of certain radical politicians at the Syracuse Convention and the manner io which he and bis fellow delegates were treated by them. The Excise law he considered too arbitrary, and called on the Germans to support the republicans and the ob- poxious law would be modified. The oxamination into the olleged Tradesmen's Bank frauds was commenced im the Commissioner's Court yosterday. Afier the exam: ion of Richard Berry, President of the Bank, the case was further adjourned until a futare day. The Ahorn-Sweetzer Gazette-Mail newspaper case was commenced in the Court of General Sessions yesterday, Mr. Abern, the plaintiff, being the only witness ex- ‘amined. The case was then adjourned till Wednesday. The Cailicott cases were all transferred to the Circuit Court, Brooklyn, yesterday, Mr. Cunningham, one of the defendants, having appeared before the Commis. sioner and pleaded not guilty. ‘The London and New York Steamsbip Lino’s steamer Colla will leave pier No, 3 North river to-morrow (Satur- day) at twelve o'clock nooo, for London and Brest. The National Line Company's steamship Erin, Captain Hall, wit! leave pier 47 North river to-morrow (Satur- @ay) at noon, for Liverpool, touching at Queenstown to fand passengors and mails. The Hambarg American Packet Company's steamship Baxonia, Captain Meier, will leave Hoboken at noon to-morrow Saturday) for Hamberg, via Souchampton. ‘The mails ||| close at the Post Office at half past tea O'clook ia the morning. The Anchor line steamship Hibernia, Captain Manro, ‘will sali from pier 20 North river at noon to-morrow (GBatarday) for Liverpoot and Glasgow, calling at Loudon- @orry to land mails and passengers. ‘The fine steamship Tillie, Captain Partridge, belongiog to © H. Mallory & Co.'s line, will leave pier 20 East river at three P. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Gaives- ton, Texas. The Cromwell line steamship Goorge Washington, Captain Gager, will sail from pte . 9 North river to- morrow (Saturday) at throe P. M. for New Orleans direct. ‘Tho stock market was weak and unsettied yesterday. Government securities were heavy. (Gold was unsettled fand closed at 143% #14374 in the room. MISCELLANEVOS. Farthor election returns leave Obio still in dowbt, with on - indications, however, slightly in favor of @ republican | majority, Tbe Legisiature is believed to be certainly demooratic, From Iowa republican majorities are re- ported, althoogh the returns are st i very meagre. Prominent republicans in Washington bave agroed al. most unanimously that, in view of the late elections, | Genera) Grant is by far the most available man the party can trog forward for the presidency to 1868, Chass shares are falling amazingly in consequence. A movement ts ander advisement by conservative fepablicans in Philadelphia to ostablieh a new party, to th Jusion of extremists and fanatics on both sides Gevonty thousand dollars in counterfeit soveu-thirly NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. | bonds were recently presented at the Treasury Depart- | ment in Washington for redemption. It is reported that | tuey came from leading banking bouses in New York. ‘A clos* examination on the part of experts was required ‘The bonds were all | | to detect them from the genuine. } destroyed, aud the loss falls on and not on the govern Notwithstanding the posi- tive statement of the Treasury Department that these bonds are counterfoited, sound argument bas been ad- duced in support of the opinion that they are really au- which have been steien, Infor- conveyed to the banks in Now York yesterday by Assistant ‘Treasurer Van Dyke that hundreds of thousands of dollars in counterfeit bonds haa already been palmed off upon the c. Nearly two bundred thousand worth of them already been disoovered in certain banking and plicate bonds mation was | | | ‘als Sheridan and Sickles passed a quiet day in © Republican Committee prevented the citizens from tonding them a cordial welcome, as the tour looked oo much hke a political pilgrimage tn consequence. General Sheridan, on being informed of the cause of the lukewarmness of the people, declared that he did not intend his journey for any political effect whatever, The Generals paid a visit to the Soldiers’ e yosterday and made short speeches to the old veterans there, A lady afterwards read a poem, On Sunday Sheridan will leave for Niagara Falls, Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, was inaugurated at Nashvilie yesterday, In his inaugural addroas he re- uurns thanks for his election by a majority greater than any governor ever before received. He favors the influx of Northern men and capital into the State, but expresses contempt for those who abandon their honest senti- ments and profess rebel sympathies for the purpose of securing position and patronage. He concludes with the sentiment—the union of the republican party forthe sake of the Unton. A plan has been broached for the establishinent of a system of storm signals on the Cape Hatteras lighthouse by which vossela in sight or nearing can be warned of storms prevailing elsewhere, A line of telegraph is pro- posed to run from Newbern to flateras, by means of which the light housekeeper can be informed of storms on any distant part of the coast, and thus communicate by 23 or cannon the information to passing vesse!s, being forewarned, can be forearmed, It is well known that storms frequently prevail in one direction on the Auuntic while everyihing is calm in another, It is also proposed to extend these signals to Key West, Fort Taylor, Havana and other points, and it is stated that the expense will be very slight. The Maryland republicans yesterday, in convention, nominated a State ticket with Judge Hugh L, Bond at the head for Governor. Geueral McClellan writes to afriendjthat he will proba- bly arrive home on the 26th inst. One of the results of the late elections is ‘the deter- mination of the Virginia whites to make a vigorous struggle against the call for a convention, We have correspondence and files from Cuba to the Sth inst., from Kingston, Jamaica to the 25th of Septem- ber, and from all the smaller West India Islands to to various dates; but the most important news items have been anticipated by our special despatches over the Guif cable. Governor Ore has addressed a letter to President Johne son praying that an order of General Canby, permitting only registered voters to serve on juries, be revoked. A destruc ive fire was reported raging at Skowhegan, Me, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, which had already destroyed a planing mill and three other build- ings. ‘A party of burglars broke into the State Prison at Wethersfield, Conn., on Wednesday night, stole $200 worth of silverware from the bornishing shop and rolled their booty off in a wheelbarrow, They then returned the wheelbarrow to the piace where it belonged. At the Fasbion course, yesterday, Mountaia Boy, Com- modore Vanderbiit’s colt, with Charlotte F. as running mate, trotted a half mile in the wnprecedented time of 107%. ex The People to the Rescue! “So, boys, a final bumper, ‘While we all in chorus chant; For next President we nominate Our own Ulysses Grant !”” “And if asked what State he bails from, This our sole reply shall be: From near Appomattox Court House famous apple tree, For ‘twas there to our Ulysses That Lee gave up the fight; Now, boys! to Grant for President, And God defend the right!’ Here we have the true sentiment. Here we have that feeling which is only brought to the surface by the struggles of the country to free itself from political corruption. The people, weary and disgusted with the harrow views which govern Congress and the President, have patiently waited for change until the only hope remaining is a turn to those men who were not swayed by sectional views ; men who belong to the United States—not to the North, npt to the South, but to the Continent. These are, to- day, the men for the people. These are they who will give us harmony in our national development, which is the one thing now lack- ing to force us to the very'summit which na- ture has, from our geographical position, destined us to occupy. Why stand qnarrelling over a matter already fought out—already decided? Are we to believe that all the rea- soning power of the country is centred at Washington? There may have been a day when Congress furnished ideas for the people ; but thet day is passed, and it must now be understood that the peop'e furnish ideas for Congress. Failing to heed the will of the people and shape their wishes into laws, Con- gress must give plice to men who can appre- ciate our republicanism as it exists. Had this been done in the Presidential and Con- gressional efforts at reconstruction, we should not now be tumbling and rolling about in this Black Sea of negroism.. Our rulers, notwithstanding our desires to give them every chance to correct the abuses of a legislation which overrides every sound principle of statesmanship, have evidently determined that the welfare of the country is of little moment in comparison to the one absorbing idea of party pewer. Under these circumstances it has become a vital necessity to make a change from demagogues to states- men. North and South are still awaiting the restoration of the government to a healthy condition. To-day the leaders of parties are the only barrier which stands in the way of true reconstruction. How well this is appre- ciated by the intelligence of the different States is shown in the late elections of Cali- fornia, Maine, Obio and Pennsylvania. Here the great Union element has, for the moment, retired from the lists and holds its power in abeyance, that the radicalism of {ts leaders may receive rebuke. This pouse forebodes evil to the demagogues; for it indicaies that they have failed to meet the demands made upon them and must give place to men of heavier calibre. Now the people turn to Grant, Sher- man, Thomas, Sheridan and and foree them into the political foreground. Did the demagogues think that a little circle at Washington were to shape the destinies of a | continent? Did they think that with their proconsular system in ten States they were to | forge the weapons which were to give famiti- cism another lease of power? Their laws in- dicate that soch has been their feeling. But the people think differently ; and this is a question which essentially belongs to the peo- pie. The people said, in 1861, that the relent- less and anprineipled slaveholding power should not eplit the country into fragmente, The flag assailed, we sprang by the million to its defence, We fought to preserve nation- and tte ~e who presented them | ‘The fact of their being the guests of | ality ; and to | won we des whieh had « fight, howeve & seco ibe ested revolution, r the purpose of pick nd forcing it into n: We ing mp ry issue pas prim did not fight to prove tha egro should govern th | South to lesion of the wt man, or that ¢ » should be debasad by of tho negro to a st Next to the safety of the Union, d that every man, black or while, shoutd have equal chances to rise in the scale of ci tion in proportion to bis own in- tei ability. We bad little disposition to retrace our march, and, saddling onreelves with the concentrated ignorance of three mil- lions of nezroes, to recommence with vitiated blood, reduced intelligence and less brain power, the toilsome advance of many centu- ries, in order to resch the point wo now oc- cupy. It was not in the Anglo-Saxon blood to do this, and onr rulers have sadly mistaken the political problem in foisting this upon the country as the great issue before which every thing must kneel. This issue is the only one which, carried to success, will be the salvation oj the radicals. The question now is, are the people willing to accept this as the future guid- ing siar of the reoublic? It cannot be; for, accepting it, we prove that we have lost our senss. There are other aad greater isanes at hand, but so broad in their general benefits that our demagogues cannot see them. Our finances, our commerce, our agriculture, our railroad enterprises, our frontier unrolling, our Indian troubles, all call to us for a legislation which the President and Congress have pioved their total incapacity to provide. There is, then, no other remedy but that which comes from a change of rulers. Let the great republican element of the country still pouse until the radical power, shorn of its force, appreciates the rebuke of a nation whic feels its curse. Then, at the coming Presidential contesi, the people may step forward, and by the election of Grant or some other sia‘esman restore our national dreams and give tiem (that prac- tical reality for which we are 30 earnestly straggling. The Park Bank Encroachment and the Herald. In defence of the outrageous graat from the Common Council and the Mayor of a portion of Broadway to the Park Bank, at a point where the public ight of way is most needed to the community, a copperhead journal pa- trades what it says is an official measurement, from which it appears that the new Heratp building encroaches from four to seven feet upon Ann street and Broadway. {n answer to this absurd attempt to make the Heratp the scapegoat of “tlie public nuisanc2” which the Park Bank has been authorized to establish in Broadway, we submit to our readers the fol- lowing certificate, procured by Mr. Kellum, our careful architect, as the shortest way to end the discussion :— New York, Oct. 10, 1867. This is to cortify that I have this day surveyed the Hxrap building, and find the same to conform to the street lines in the usual macner of other buildings, and that the stoops and steps do mot extend beyond the proper limits permitted by the city ordinances, EDWARD LUDLAM, City Surveyor. This official voucher of Mr. Ludlam is con- clusive. The Heravp building stands within its legitimaie lin:s, and nowhere encroaches upon public property or the public right of way. The Park Bank is a manifest and out- rageous encroachment to every passenger up or down, and one of that class of encroach- ments which Judge Ingraham properly says in his charge to the Grand Jury “ must be treated as nuisances, presented as such and be dealt with accordingly.” We are gratifiel, there- fore, to fay to the million of our fellow citi- zens of this island, who have a direct interest in this matter, that an order was granted from the Supreme Court yesterday to the parties concerned in this Park Bank “ nuisance” to show cause, on next Monday week, why an in- junction against it shall not be granted. We are further gratified to make the announce- ment that the Board of Councilmen yesterday rescinded the resolution. making this extraor- dinary grant of public property to the Park Bank, and that the “nuisance” involved will doubtless be abated. Progress of German Consolidation, Germany one and indivisible—a united Fatherland, so long a German dream—daily assumes more and more the character of fact. With a persistency which may be justly described as audacious Prussia pursues her plans, and Germany, recognizing ‘her leader- ship, is responsive to her call. Our latest telegrams show that the work of consolidation progreases beyond the expecta- tion of the most enthusiastic and hopeful. Our special correspondent at Berlin, in the letter which we published yesterday, gives the address of the Prussian Reichstag to King William. To all who desire to see Germany a unit the address is most encouraging. “Since the grand union of North Germany we have become in an increased degree conscious of our duty to meet every wish and want ot the South German States for the establishment of a national union embracing the South and the North. We, for our part, can only then first consider the great work complete when the entry of the South German States into the Bund has been effected on the basis of article geventy-nine of the North German Bund con- stitution.” Such is the spirit, according to the address, by which Prussia is animated. Judg- ing from a cable despatch, which also we printed in yesterday's Henao, this spirit is not being manifested in vain. The chicf Minister of the Bavarian Cabinet, at tho sitting of the Bavarian Diet on the 8th inst., declared that it was “the true policy of Bavaria to seek union with the North German States under the presidency of the King of Prussia.” When it is borne in mind that Baden has already made a similar declaration, and that Wartemberg cannot, even if she wore willing, stand alone, it will be seen at a glance how really hopeless all attempts ‘must be, come trom what quarter they may, to check the progress of German unity. The additional proposal mado by the cbief Minister of the Bavarian crown, that Bavaria should at the same time form an alliance with Austria, may or may not be practicable ; but the tendeacy of events can scarcely result in anything else than the detachment from Austria of that portion of Germany which still adheres to her and the complete unification of the Fatherland. Bis- marck’s ‘policy has been unmistakably bold, buat a less determined policy would have been worthless @nd could only have resulted in defeat, | oplets the y’etory which we | A Eadteal Abolition View of the Late 4 the prineinle of slavery, | We did not } Elections. The Anfi-Slavery Standard, the organ of Wen- doll Phillips and bis extreme schoo! of n°gro- worshipping radieals, tokes a very melancholy viow of the late elections and comes to very absurd conclusions on the subject. Ti thas ap- pears that these elections are “substantial tyi- | umphs of the negro-hating demoeracy ;” that “Congressional reconstruction is to be aga'n chockmated ;” that “ negro-hating Southeraers,” with “such a President in the White House” as we now have, need no greater encourage- ments against the schemes of Congress than the adverse vote on negro suffrage in Ohio; that “the republicans in Pennsylvania meanly dodged the issue;’? and that “ the republicans in Ohio, ih a greater degree than its spurious democracy, are responsible for the ignominious defeat ” of the negro suffrage amendment. So they are, for they turned against it. But what ia the remedy? “Radical, persistent agita- tion.” But what is the prospect? Gloomy enough, as presented by this persistent radical. Had Congress removed Andrew Johnson and established negro suffrige these radical disas- ters, in the v.ew of the astounded Phillips, might have been’ avoided. But, asks his Standard, will Congress “ be admonish-d at the eleventh hour?” and thea confesses that “ it is one of the most threatening dangers of the republican defeat of yesterday that in the Presidential campaign which will open next summer the standard-bearer of that party will be such, from supposed availability, as would render victory in itself a disaster.” And this is the lamentable conclusion to which this dis- guste] ralical abolition expounder comes at last:—* Better defeat with a standard which deserves success than victory only in the name.” fe This may be accepted asa proclamation of an independent Presidential ticket of the Phillips school of radicals, and a resumption of that guerilla system of warfare under which such tremendous results were achieved by the old abolition faction, In 1844 it defeated Wenry Clay by diverting to Birney, the aboli- tion candidate, independent, fittezn thousand abolition votes in New York, which gave the State to Polk and elected him; in 1848 it de- fen'ed Generwl Cass by diverting the free soil democracy of this and other States to the inde- pendent abolition or free soil candidate, Mar- tin Van Buren; and tien, gathering strength from the follies and blunders of both the old whig and democratic parties, this abolition faction first desiroyed the one and next broke the other into pieces on the rocks and shoals of the slavery agitation. Now, as the late elections have crushed this thing of universal negro suffrage for the present, we may prepare for a resumption of this radical abolition guerilla warfare ; and the first result will pro- bably be in the inevitable reconstruction of parties which must soon take place—the fusion of all tho intractable radicals of the republican camp with the guerilla faction of Phillips, and the organization: for 1868, under General Grant, of a new conservative Union party, which will take possession of the government in 1869. The Great Whiskey Frands. The attention of all who desire to compre- hend how “whiskey frauds” are perpetrated is directed to the statement and letters in re- gard to the Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey Com- pany, and the indirect but apparently active conzection therewith of Colonel Messmore, who was until recently chief director and ex- ecutive officer of the Internal Revenue Board in this city—a position from which the revela- tions made by Collector J. F. Bailey have caused him to be withdrawn. So powerful is the “whiskey ring” that any cellector or other officer, of internal revenue who attempts to fight it will most likely be crushed, unless backed up by a strong expression of public opinion fn his favor ; and certainly Collector Bailey in this matter has “deserved well of the republic.” We trust and hope that Judge Blatchford will interpose no more delays to the trial of this cause, already too often pos!- poned by the defendants, who are using all their political resources to have the case com- promised and hushed up by the higher authori- ties at Washington ; and we believe that, with a ful! and fair trial given to this case, such widespread corruption will be developed among a majority of the internal revenue offi- cers of our cily that even the grimy hands of Callicott, over in Brooklyn, will become white when contrasted with the blackened and dip- ping paws of certain prominent official mem- bers of the “ whiskey ring” in this city and its environs. The Incendiary Hannicutt. The other day Hunnicutt, the self-constituted leader of radical party in Virginia, pro- claimed a wholesale emigration from Africa to America, as well as a return of the fugitives in Canada who escaped from slavery and of the suffering emigrants now in Hayti and Liberia. “Yea,” he exclaimed, “we would overturn Africa right into America, if necessary, and those thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-haired people that now swarm those sunny shores should be brought here as Irishmen from Ire- land, and in the same time be fitted just ag well for the responsibilities of citizenship.” But Hunaicutt is not content with hoping to secure, by their help, the domination of his party and the Africanization of the South and the entire country. In the absence of General Schofield at Wasbington he has ventured to invoke other instrumenialities for the consum- mation of his purpose. Ina speech to the ne- groes in Charles City he bas told them that they have nothing to fear if a war of races should arise, Reviowing the results of regis- tration in each of the Southern States, he showed the negroes their physical preponder- ance in the Gulf States and South Carolina. He said he had no report of the relative strength of the two races in North Carolina, but in Virginia the white majority is only thir- teen thousand, and he and his set, numbering twonty-five thousand, were bound to make common cause with them. His own words best express the incendiary spirit with which he would fain fire their hearts, “ You have,” said he, “no property. Tho white race owns houses and lands, Some of you are old and feeble and cannot carry the musket, but can apply the torch to the dwellings of your ene- mies.” If those who sent Hunnioutt to Vir- ginia cannot be induced by humanity to silence such wicked and dangerous utterances, it is slill difficult to suppose that they and he can remain utlerly indifferent to the warnings given at tho recent eloctions in Pennsylvania and Ohio. um Our Indians-What Should be Done with Thew. We have more encouraging news about the Indt ns ‘han we bad for some time previously. There appears to be some hope that the roubles on the Plains wi e@ aborigines may be terminated. 1 hearing on this questio J Creek, on the Arkansas, datel October 3, | where there were assembled four huadred and thirty-one lodges of Indiaus—Arapahoes, Apaches, Kiowas and Ch nes, besides Comanehes and others moving in. There, would be about eight hundred and filty-two lodges, or five thousind Indians in all. The Commissioners of the government to treat with them were on their way from Kansas, with troops for protection and a supply of goods for presents. The Indians assembling at Medicine Creek do not represent all those who are hostile, but dey represent the greater part and the most powerful (ribes, so that if a permanent arrangement be made with them the others would give in or be unvble to do much more harm. This council, or conference, then, is of great importance. When we look at the cost of a general Indian war, on one hand, and ai the absolute necessity of protecting the advancing settle- ments and the railroids across the Plains on the other, we may well express the hope that the government Commission mey be successfal in ifs object. We are not intormed what plan of settlement will be proposed, if there be any fixed plan; but itis to be hoped the whole sysiem of managing the Indians will be changed. The policy adopted by the govern- ment with the Creeks and Cherokees,.in locating them on the territory they now occupy, was snecessful in a measure, for these Indians have become a peaceful and indus!riows. community and have advanced in education and civiliza- tion, But the time may come when the progress of the white population may press upon them and cause trouble. It is hardly possible for the Indians to live long as a distinct community oa any part of our terri- tory. The tue policy for the government and this Commission on Medicine Creek to pursue is to prepare the Indians for commingling with the other races on the Continent. They are superior to the negroes, who are scattered among the whites everywhere and who form alarge part of the community in the Southern States, There is less repugnance to amal- gamating with them than with the negroes, and they bave @ peculiar claim upon us, being the original lords of the soil. Why, then, shall we not give them as good a chance, at least, as the negroes have? Let them have settlements, with all the means and encouragement for im- provement; let them be prepared to form a part of the general community, and to be taken up and absorbed in it as civilization advances across the Plains ; and, above all, let the rascally Indian traders and Indian agents be kept away from them and a large and liberal policy be pursued toward them. We hope the Commissioners now about to treat with the tribes are prepared to adopt some such policy, and that, as a consequence, we shall see the end of the enormous cost and sacrifices of Indian wars. Cabinet Rumors. Cabinet rumors are flying about as thick as autumn leaves in the wind. Among them we have various rumors of the gathering of lead- ing copperheads in consultation with the President ; but it such men are his chief ad- visers we have only to say that he would do well to dismiss them or to reject alike their demands and their recommendations. We have another report, which we deem to be au- thentic, according to which the President does not intend to make more than one change or two in his Cabinet for the present, which we think is not the best policy. He ought to strike while the iron is hot, and have a new Cabinet and a new policy to submit at the meeting of Congress, which, adapted to meet the views of all conservative Union men, will be apt to throw the radicals on their beam- ends with the reading of the message. Colombian Aftairs. The letter of our Panama correspondent which appeared in yesterday’s Heracp confirms our impression that Mosquera, the lately de- posed President of Colombia, was virtually but an agent of the French and British governments in their schemes to get possession ot Colombia and the Panama Railroad and to reconstruct Latin America according to the pet theories and plans of Louis Napoleon. These schemes were held to be specially important in antici- pation of the possible failure of the Mexican empire.. The authors of them were bent upon thus cutting off American progress to the southward. Mosquera, vain of his acknow- ledged kinship to the Queen of Portugal, sym- pathized with the disposition of European monarehists to resist and check the advance of republican ideas. He encouraged the notion that the Spanish American people are utterly incapable of self-government. “ Mosquera sailed for Colombia,” says our correspondent, “apparently to assume his position as Presi- dent of the republic, but in reality to scheme for the overthrow of the government and to proclaim himself Dictator, as the initial step to the erection of an absolute monarchy on the ruins of the old fabric.” But his projects were defeated. “The people rose against their old favorite, repablicanism was vindi- eated and Napoleon’s cause was lost.” The advance of a hundred thousand dollars by an English house to Mosquera on the Panama Railroad franchise, which they expected to get, but which the Panama Railroad Company has lately secured, proved to be fruitless, American interests and ideas have prevailed against English and French interests and ideas, and must become still more influential in affecting the destiny of Colombia. Mr. Chase and “Old Ben Wade.” The Ohio election has made decisive work with Mr. Chief Justice Chase as a Presidential candidate on the platform of universal negro suffrage, and with “Old Ben Wade” as a can- didate for re-election to the United States Senate. His term expires in 1869, and a dem- ocratic Legislature has been secured to choose his successor. This disposes of Mr. Wade. Aa for Mr. Chase and his Presidential rings of negro worshippers and national banks, they are all demolished by the Ohio election, and he and his platform cease to be available for the succession. Ho has been cast overboard, find the conservative eloments of the repnb- lican party must lead off for a new man and @ now departure, COUNTERFEIT SEVEN-THIRTY BONDS, curities in Cironlath dred Thousand Dollars ered. Some time ago the faith of the public in tho inability | Of the counterfetting fraternity to successfully or even dangerously imitate the paper securities of the United States was shaken by an alarming cable telegram announcing the discovery of counterfeit bonds ta Europe, This announcement, as will be remembered, proved to be erroneous, it seoms now, however, that an attempt, and a bighiy succeasiui one, has been made, to what exteat remains yet to be discovered, Yesterday Wall street, as will be seen by the more de- ‘tailed account ia our financial coiuma, was thundor- Strack by the announcement that hundreds of thou- sands of dollars’ worth of bogus seven-thirty bonds had been already palmed off on the community. The issue Purported to be that of June, 1865, and the denomi- nation $1,000. The chief clerk of the Treasary in Washington was the first to make ghe discovery, Yesterday one of the oificials of thas department, together with a United States detective, arrived in this city and communicated the facts to Assistant Treasurer Van Dyck, who immodi- ately imparted the information to the banks and other institutions dealing in United States securities, ‘The detectives ave at work endeavoring to ferret ous the source of the counterfeit. The specimens received at Washington came from the West, but how long they have been in circulation it is said tobe impossible to ascertain, as their exceution is a most perfect imitation of Abe genuine, and their transit from band to hand bas therefore been unattended with any suspicion as to thoir genuineness, The points of difference are quite remarkable when the spurious bouds are compared directly with the bona fide isswes—ihe former being from one-eighth to a quarter of an inch longer. The seal of the counterfeit is also much larger, while the lathp work on the edge is compara- tively coarse, Nearly two hundred thousand dollars’ worth of the spurious bonds have been already discovered among the banking institutions and meroantile houses of this city, most of which, as far as can be traced, came from Pitts. burg, Cleveland, Springtield and other Western cities, Further search will probably lead to the discovery that millions of doliars worth of these counterfeit securities are in the po session of the community. The detec. tives are quite at fault as to their origin, so carefully and skilfully did the operators mature and perfect their plans. ‘The detectives are still at work. Probably the revela- tions of to-day will enable them to obtain some clue to the source of so astounding a fraud upon the people. The Discovery of the Counterfeit at ington—How it ‘Was Madc—Resul Examination—Reported Victimization Leading New York Bankers. Wasunaton, Oct. 10, 1867. Considerable excitement has prevailed in the Treasury Department for several days past on account of the discovery of the counterfeiting of United States of bonds, Seventy thousand dollars in well exe- cuted counterfeit seven-thirty bonds of the second series, due June, 1368, of the thousand dollar denomination, had been presented at the Tressury Department for redemption. All of them wore either of the A or B series, ranging within the following named thousands, viz:—63,000, 140 000, 160,000 and 180,000. ‘The result of the examination, as ordered by the So- licitor of the Treasury, is, first—the seal is slightly larger than the genuine; the red ink with which it is stamped is a shade lighter and the points gprojecting from the seal re blurred ;and # little longer than the genuine; second, the imprint at the bottom of the face of the bond is set different in the margin, there being more space given it than in the genuine; third, the borders of the cou- pons which are attached to the counterfelt bonds are larger, while tho red figures are finer than in the genu- ine; fourth, the borders of the ornamental lathe work are blurred and somewhat indifferently executed; fth, the figurea denoting the bond are slightly uneven, while the biue ink in which they are printed is a duiler blue, and lacks the metaliio, glossy appearance of the genu- ing; sixth, there 1s, to the experts, a difference in the vignette—the female figure on the face of the bond— the lines are not so well shaded, nor is the black ink so well distributed, ¥ ‘The counter‘eit is regarded as one of the most danger- ous that bas yet been executed. It 1s declared to be su- perior to the counterfeit $500 greenbucks which were engraved by Uhiric, the plates of which Colonel Wood has how in the Detective department at the Treasury, while Uhiric is in prison. The Ev ning Express says over sixty thousand dol- jars’ worth of these bonds have been sent to the Treasury Department for redemption by such banking houses in New York as Messrs, Jay Cooke & Co., Vermilye & Co,, Fisk & Hatch and others. Vermilye & Co. are the heaviest losors, so far as ro- ported. All these bonds aro destroyed, and the bankers sending them in are not credited with them, so that the government loses nothing while the bankers and brokors sufler, if they cannot go back on the parties from whom they purchased the counterfeit bonds. This morning Hon, F. E. Spinner, Treasurer, made a thorough in- spection of the bunds and promounced them counter- feit. The letter F, of General Spinner’s signature is very imperfest, and was soon detected by him in his inspection of the bonds. Mr. Henry D. Cooke, the resi- dent partner in this city of the firm of Jay Cooke & Co., announces that the Philadeipbia and Washinzton houses of their Grm have not received any of the bonds, while those received by their New York house are {rom re- sponsible parties, and thut their loss will bo compara- tively smail, Information recoived this morning by officials in the Treasury Department, announces that the counterfeit bonds have beon scattered treely through the banker? and brokers’ offices of New York, while it is als» toought that the counterfeits have found gheir way; > the large Western cities. : — Seay TELEGRAM TO THE HERAL Suepicions Concerning the Reported Coun terfeit Bonde—Probability of their being Stoten Duplicates—Suspicions Performances among the Employes of the Treasury De- partment. Wasnin i atee} i 12 0" midnight, “ Notwithstanding the positive statement of the Trea- sury Department that the one thousand dollar bonds ‘are forgeries, some suspicion is expressed that they are really duplicates stolen from the Department. The counterfeiting, if they are counterfeits, is so perfect that ft is pronounced almost impossible to be detected. One reason for supposing them to be counterfeits is said te be that they are all of class A or B, and none of ciaes O or D. ‘The theory of this is that as four bonds are printed on one piate and classified as A, B, Cand D. if they had been stolen by whole sheets the four bonds would be all issued by the thieves and not two only, Atthe same time others argue that no coun- terfeiter would have gone to the troubie or run the risk of making two copies, A and B, when he could have made one only and have issued as many of thom as he pleased, Jt would be gotng to double trouble and double risk for nothing. The fact of the duplication of the bonds was known at the Treasury Department several days ago, ‘and it is said that at the last moment, when they were pronounced counterfeits, the arrest of some of the lead- ing officers and heads of bureaus in the department was ‘on the point of being made. The persons who hold that the bonds are counterfeit are all connected with the ‘Troasury Department, and it has beon suggested that it wouid be satisfactory to the public to have them exam- ined and pronounced upon by exports not in any way connected with the government, especially as three or four bureaus im the department must be in collusion if the fraud is really inside, Secretary Me- Culloch has been for some time quietly buying up the bonds of the second igsue, which is the issue thus duplig cated of counterfeited, It is suggested that he shoul now call im all that issuo and fund it as the only means ol eg om Doe ne public, Bankers are inclined to doubt the rigut of the rf such of tho for at the raid and Sub-ireasuries, At all events it will be a difficult matter to recover the money. The disciosure of this affair bas revived rumors and suspicions against the Tres A prominent gentieman, formerly connected with the ‘Treasury and thoroughly conversant with all ite affairs, remarked to-day that thero was at least something sin- gular in the fact that several of the now ein- ployed in the department on salaries coraimy not large are buying property, accumulating wealth aud living in style, He says if honest they are certainly wonderful economuats. The parties who pronounce the bonds counterfeit are Colonel Wood, De- voctive of Treasury, Messrs, Meiroy and Andrews, of the joan bt of the Treasury, and Mr, Casealior, of the Printing Bureau of tho Treaeury. It is hoped that Secretary McUulioch will at once accede to the general desire to have toe bonds examined and pronounced upom by partes discoumeoved with the department,