The national Republican., 1860-12-28
LOCI L N E w S.
THE ROBBERY OF THE INTERIOR
DEPARTMENT.
STILL FURTHER CONCERNING IT-How 1T Is RE.
CElyED. ETC,

CEIvED, ETC.
As stated in yesterdays Republican, the
sureties of GODDARD Bailey appeared before the
magistrate and surrendered him to the officers
of the law on Wednesday afternoon, and he
was again placed in Jail.
1t having been agreed that 5000, 900 of the
$500,000 bail required for Russell might be
given by parties outside the jurisdiction of this
court, the following prominent gentlemen from
the State of Missouri entered into bond for the
amount of $l25,O00, leaving $4,000 outside
bail still remaining to be obtained Hon. Sam
uel II. WoodsoD, $4,000; Hon. James 5.
Green, $25,0 900; Hon. WIN. Gnish, $25,0OO;
Hon. r. II. Porter, 500, 900; Hon. T. p. Akees,
$4,000; Hon. Beverly d. Williams, Of Kansas,
also entered into bond in the sum of $4,000.
Cornelius Wendell, Esq., gave SlO0, 900 towards
the 100000 bail necessary to be obtained in
this District.
Russell declares that he never saw Bailey
until the latter came to him with the first batch
Of abstracted bonds, and proposed their appli
cation, in order that he might be extricated
from pecuniary embarrassments. He admits
however, that Bailey was induced to come to
him in relation to the matter by the advice Of
his (Russells) friends who reside in the city
of Washington. Russell states, also, that Sec.
retary Floyd knew nothing Of the transaction,
and that, il the amount Of his bail shall be re.
duced, he will be able to restore the bonds to
the Interior Department-his own personal ex.
ertions being necessary, as he alleges, to ena.
BILE him to accomplish the return Of the bonds.
The following is the notice of the Chief Clerk
Of the Interior Department in relation to the
matter:
"Notice is hereby given that the following
described bonds have been unlawfully abstract.
ed from the Department of the Interior, at
Washington, and all persons are cautioned
against purchasing the same or making any
loans or advances thereon and that steps are
being taken to stop the payment thereof, and
Of the coupons becoming due after January
next.
81 Here follows q list of l43 Tennessee per
cent. bonds for 81 900 each; and 81 Missouri
per cent. Pacific Railroad bonds, for 81 900
each and 80 State Of Missouri, st. Louis and
Iron Mountain Railroad bonds, for $1,000
each and 81 Missouri per cent. bonds, with
the North Missouri Railroad bonds, for 81 900
each and 80 State of Missoori, Hannibal and
St. Joseph Railroad bonds, for s 900 each ;
and so Missouri per cent bonds, with North
Missouri Raiload State bonds, for 81, 900 each !;
and 29O North Carolina per cent. bonds, for
$1,000 each.
'And also SCI 900 of six per cent. bonds of
the State ofNorth Carolina, interest payable in
April and October, which were also abstracted
from the Department, the numbers of which
will be given to the public as soon as list Of
the same can be prepared.
"Chief Clerk Of The Interior Department.
Washington City, Dec. 20, 1860"
On Wednesday, in the United States Cir.
cult Court New York city, on motion of Mr..
N. v. B. Wilcoxson, Assistant United States
Attorney the court granted an injunction re
straining the defendants-the Bank of the Re.
public and Soutter-frem parting with or dis.
posing of any of the bonds (enumerated) that
are now in their custody or under their con.
troll Motion for injunction granted until the
further order of the court.
The bill charges that the above bonds were
stolen from an iron safe in the Department Of
the Interior, that some Of the stolen bonds
were deposited or hypothecated by Russell
Majors & Waddel, with the Bank of the Re
public.
Judge Smalley also granted an order, return
able next Monday, for the Bank of the Repub
lie to sho'r cause why the injunction should
not be continued permanently.
Russell occupies the choicest quarters in Jail
and receives his friends and contederates in ap
propriate STYLE Bailey still denies having beer
benefited by the robbery but that story is now
generally distrusted. His pretended justifca
ton is, that money was to have been raised on
the bonds to protect Secretary Floyd from dis
honor. Until the whole matter is sfted the
connecting links of this grand larceny cannot
be satisfactorily traced but the public may be
prepared for the same system Of hagrant per
jury which was notorious in the Covode and
other Investigations to prevent discovery, i
possible.
The editor of the New York Herald has re
ceived the following note from the cashier o.
the Bank of the Republic of that city, in rela
ton to the statement that the bonds were in
possession of this bank:
"The statement in some of the newspa peri
that this bank held the bonds distracted from
Department of the Government at Washing
ton, has no foundation whatever in truth. The
bonds are not now and never have been il
possession Of this bank, so far as the knoWl
edge of any of its officers extends. Neithe
Russell, Majors, & Waddell, nor any membe
of the firm, owe one dollar to the bank. No
do we, directly or indirectly, hold a solitary &C
ceptance Of J. B. Floyd, Secretary of War.
"R. II. Lowry, Cashier.
"Bank cfMe Republic, Dec 26, 1860"
This seems explicit enough but the name
of the Bank of the Republic was certainly yer,
freely mentioned about election time in con
nee ion with the extraordinary supply of Stat'
stocks which ust then came on the market.
The afternoon papers of this city yesterda,
published the following card from Mr. l.. Lea
Of the firm of Suter, Lea, & Co., in relation t
the matter:
at has been my intention to bear, in silence
the misrepresentation of the press connecting
my name with the abstraction of bonds from
the Department of the Interior; but the repor
that the firm Of Suter, Lea, & Co., have hac
anything whatever to do with the bonds is Sc
entirely destitute of truth, that must, in justice
to my partners, publicly contradict it.
"Neither Of them had the slightest knowl
edge of the matter, previous to the public ex