, 1865-01-09

Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gazette,
FRASfoRT or TEE MA1s, Dec. Q, 1864.
Our ancient free city Of Frankfort, thono3
almost daily honorcd nj tn the visits of kio~s
princes and ambassadors, can rarely boast o
having IN ambassador or commissioner fror
the Confederate States stopping In our midst
Only few weeks since, John Slidcll .Jef.
Davis Commissioner 10 France, came here
and spen. week or SO, during which he was
the guest Of Baron Erlengcr, known in
America as the neGotlator and agent Of The
fifteen million rebel cotton loan. Els visit
! here wus not supposed to he for political uur.
poses, but only to spend little time i so.
! chilly" with the Baron Erlanyer. WHOSE SON
had married his {Slidell's) daughter at Paris
Few knew Of his being here, and thourh
| ErlnnEcr drove him about the city to show
him all the sights, and introduced him nj I'm
Bourse, very little attention was otherwise
| paid to him by Our citizens.
Last week another 1ebsl commissioner. Mr.
Mason, came to our city.
He, too, was wei! known, being the antbor
OF that Infamous :ct-t' The Fugitive Slave
Law" He was the rebel commissioner to
England. and the Germans know but little of
either Slldell or Mason, except Us connected
with the Trent atfnir. II was the first fime
"Old Mason :" had eyer visited the free civ
Of Frankfort. He was accompanied by4isS S.c-
rctazy, q son Of Dudley Mann, another rebel
commissioner. Young Mann, having some
dozen years since studied German at bremen
"Ctd npn the German for Mason, who. an,
told, speaks neither German nor Fscncn. The
Germans and Americans were ut once on the
qas rite to know what Mason's objects were
IN coming to this city Some sur1nised one
thing and some another. Some OF our Ger.
coming. They held thousands, some millions
Of our fiyc.tWenties, and believed that Mason
was here loadcd down with copies or the
Index, and also of Dcnjamin's celebrated
financial circular addressed to capitalists In
Europe, by which he yainly supposed be
Government had long been troubled to think
TINT the 'tBlack Dutch" were buying so
largely Of American stocks. Tic rebel Scc.
letary Of State pretended to believe that their
large purchases of national securities in En-.
rope, alone sustained our Government from
spoil this credit, the United States would
como 10 grief" 1t Was belieyed that th;s
and other documents upon American |
finances, had been translated into German
and French for this purpose. Some presses !
h had been bought up By the seec>h here, and
peaied in the Dur Noadtx lone Of the papers
by EFlangcr), but no German jour
oal dared take the responsibility of pablish-
ng them. Their publication, however
seemed 10 have no effect at all. Finding
heir efforts fruitlcss in this undertaking, Er.
anger and Mason resolved upon some other
nethcd Of attack. The steamer Canada had
1st y, or1pgllt thc election news, Lincoln re-
:.ccleo, &C II could be seen that tlis was
:e1y nnw":co1ne intelligence. and Alason's
ace &C al once gncw considerably longer. In
I'e ! evening our sorfhe:ners had another sit
!. mT. r.; t!t.le 1as s1nnspired Of what Was done
u ~, alat time. and We are LEFT In true Yankee
l!e 20 sar:s. II sotn leaked out that tic
'I1uc'Is'l "o)eGa OF Er;anser was to raise IN.
as '.nsr oa4; inc 'tueI cotton loan had sue
eGoea. Er,.ngrE could boast Of ha:iag lost
10y snTce sn'ps our o. thirteen, when aad
1a y lne nlockadc at wilmington Wit. cotto.,,
" Da .aa! nc nad d'sW,s"d OF The Whole loan
"a made several millions Of 1o1ias in t.,r
lns. nc.
- ae!e lAe loan conld not be disposed Of on
ny Terms, ano WIN the exception Of Erlan-
cF,an :! :,so SINE OF nis Ielahons, not another
,,,aa ~ ~ = Tas hs!a IN ffankrt The great
onee os y, t, 1shneculla naa sac the rebel bonds
ar aaoie @ uaah t4e paper on which
Inv +i,is nar - aaa aa,a ~ noafse "ou'd not
~" Nv tuls .uau " ~ eo'o LacIe- {
lonica civ fur another loan far reh,}i" raS eat
rhn1S unpfo3 IN ;r,,.o,+ t., -. l