The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-23
southern Postoffceg Opened.
THE WIRz COMMISSION.

Payment OF the Interest ON the 6-2C
ROnds Anticipated. Cruelty to Freed.
men in North CRFOllnR---The 500
Compound Interest Note Mystery.
IEaVRses OF the Cholera in Europe.
NEW York, Sept. 22.-The Tribune's
| special SAYS:
1t has. been decided by the Secretary
of the Treasury to anticipate the pay
ment of the interest of the $40 bonds
which becomes due on the LIST of No
lNember, and tile same will Sbo paid on
and after September 25th, on presenta-
ton of the coupons to the Assistant
Treasurer, or those designated depos-
tories authorized to pay interest on
Government securities.
Kennel Rayner wrote a'letter from
North Carolina to friend in this city,
in which he states that unless the Gov
eminent compels the rebels to treat the
Freedmen with less cruelty, there will
certainly be n rising of the negroes, and
u bloody retaliation. He Is preparing
letter for publication, in which he
will give Rfull account of the true con-
dition of affairs in the North Stnte.-
Mr.. Rayner's earnest efforts in the Ere
mont campaign in Pennsylvania and
elsewhere, will be remembered, and his
consistent Unionism during the past
four years, iustities the expectations of
his many loyal friends throughout the
country. --la..
A thorough and most rigid investipa-
ton Is being made by Secretary McCul-
lOch, into the mystery of the 500 COM
pound interest notes. This Is undoubt-
eddy the most dangerous counterfeit'
which has as yet appeared, and may
we'll challenge the severest scrutiny OF
the bank note companies, and all who
have been employed in any wise upon
the Government dies and plates. The
face of the note is most accurate imi-
tation of the genuine, while the back is
either the genuine Government plate or
an electrotype from it. 1t seems set
tied that either the original plates inn
Company have been allowed to get into
improper hands, or this fac SiHlite was
Obtained by the electrotype process.
On the first hypothesis IL is difficult
to see why the genuine face was not
obtained in the same way, but il the
plato from which it was printed was
obtained by electrotyping,, the probable
reason for the face not having been
electrotypod is TINT the vignette and
other portions of 1t are engraved
llpOn several pieces, while the back is
in one. In connection with the electro
typing theory, 1t is now remembered
that experiments in the duplication of
plates by,that method were carried on
in the Treasury building by persons
not regular employees of the govern
ment, at intervals before Mr.. McCuI-
loch became Secretary, with view to
the adoption of the process, and that
such multiplication of plntes wns chnT-
at tho time MS independent.
It is known that bill plates have been
boxed ut the Treasury and sent to New
York to outside parties for backing,
and in this manner may have fallen
into improper hands, but it cannot be
denied that in the earlier stages of ma
king these plates mt the Treasury De-
pnrfment greater opportunities were
permitted for their surreptitious cleo
trotyping than Mt any other point or by
any other parties. The honor and in
forest of every employee of the currency
printing bureau being so signaIly in
YolVed, it is hoped that everything
which can possibly throw light upon
So important matter will receive the
most thorough sitting in the investiga-
tion now going forward.
The State Department is in receipt
to-day OF Voluminous dispatches from
our consuls at ConstantinopIe, Smyrna,
Port Mahon and Barcelona, giving fur
Their information of the ravages of the
cholera in various parts of Europe.
The reports from Constantinople Rre
most alarming, the deaths from this
disease having reached the number of
1000 per-day. AT Smyrna tho epidemic
was checked some time since, but it has
broken out afnesh and is now spreading
TO frightful extent. -