The Indianapolis daily herald., 1865-11-17
From New York.

MINISTER To JAPAN-RUMoRs OF CABINET
CHASGEs-INMATEs OF THE CAPITOL PRISON
THE REWARDS OF THE AssAssINS-MoSEY
REFUNDED-MAIL SERVICE IN THE SOUTH
+ CIRCULAR FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE
Observation-Disclosures PARDoSs - PARDON
i OF A CoUNTERFEfTER, ETC.
/ NEW YoRk, November 1G.-The HeralFs
Washington dispatch SAYS:
The Secretary Of the Navy has determined
10 send abroad considerable portion Of the
+ surplus naval force TO cruise about and visit
peaceful commercial ports, if Congress will
make appropriations.
] The President has appointed Hon. Chauncey
VI. Depew Minister to Japan.
/ Ninder, Duncan and Gee are the only per-
sons Of note in the Old Capitol Prison.
The UOrid's Washington special saws !:
There are rmnors of Cabinet changes, but il j.
not probable any will be made until after the
meeting of Congress.
The Times special dispatch says: The find
ings of the Commission, to whom was referred
/ the adjustment OF the rewards offered for cap
turing the assassins and conspriators, will not
be made public until approved by the secre-
tary of War.
The UOrldS Washington dispatch says: Re-
ports just received at the Treasury Depart
ments from agents stationed along the Canada
frontier, show that smuggling is still carried
on very largely.
Seizures are made constantly.
/ The inducements are so great that if One-haf
I is got the parties are amply remunerated.
An agent, who arrived here to-day. says
snugglers have been unusually active curing
+ the last two or three months.
Fuller. who used the name of Senator Harlan
To obtain large amount of money belonging
TO the National Republican Commission, who
has been in the Old Capitol for several months.
has been released without trial.
The IimeS'S special says: Hon. Freemen
Clark, Comptroller of Currency. is engaged
2 N IIa will nd he
moval Of the National Currency Bureau TO
New York
/ Mr.. McCulloch, who made the same recon-
mendation when Comptroller last year, will
probably renew il in his forthcoming report as
Secretary of the Treasury.
Yesterday the Government refunded the
first money from the proceeds Of the sale of
confscated property, in pursuance of section
seven, act of March Sd, 1865. In the case in
which the money was refunded the claimants
and former owners Of the confiscated property
show that they were loyal citizens and sup
I porters of the Union, notwithstanding the fact
of abandoning their property at the breaking
out Of the rebellion. The land is located in
Alexandria, Virginia. A large number of
like cases are pending.
The Herald special says: Yesterday was the
/ time for receiving bids for the contract of the
mail service for Virginia, West Virginia,
North and South Carolina and Florida, eX-
pressed and formal, awarding the respective
cepted, and is now under way. Contracts
about to be consummated for service in the
above States t. go into effect the first Of JAM
uary, 1866, and expire in June, 1867. Bids
made for this service were largely in excess of
rates formerly in vogue for the same routes.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has issued a
circular notifying all collectors Of internal
enue that he regards il but a just precaution
that wherever applications are made for the
storage of petroleum or other products, within
fhs4l mi Of off
forward 10 the Treasury Department state
ment that the warehouse, if established, will,
i'm case Of fire, endanssor eithor property or the
/ lives of people living or doing business i'm the
vicinity.
! Nathaniel III. Mclean, \. \. G.. to Burnside,
/ who was ordered 10 the Pacific Coast two
years ago, as he alleges, to prevent his testify
/ ing against HURT, then about TO be tried at
/ Cincinnati, Is preparing TO bring his case be-
/ fore Congress, and promises much additional
4 light on that interesting subject.
I Times Washington special SAYS, the state
ment that the Secretary of the Treasury in
+ tended to discourage all female clerks in his
department, l. erroneous.
/ Governor Parsons left for home Yesterday
morning with two hundred pardons for citi-
zens of Alabama.
Admiral Porter will soon publish reply to
4 General Banks's structures on the conduct Of
the Navy in the Red River campaign,
Colonel Henry Page, late Chief Quartermas-
ter on General sheridan's staff, has been Or
dered 10 Arkansas.
The Times special says: Antoine Rosa was
I convicted at the October term of the United
states Circuit Court for the District of Eastern
1 New York, for counterfeiting fractional cur
rency, and sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment, and was to-day pardoned by the Presi-
dent.
The Times special says: The President was
more than usually annoyed by unfortunate re-
constructionists yesterday. He remarked that
he had tried TO overwhelm the south with par
dons and kindness, but from recent events he
began to think them incapable of approaching
magnanimity.
Several efforts have been made to force be-
ligerent construction upon the action of the
Navy Department in ordering off certain
United States ships. The facts are, that
sunciry naval vessels have been ordered 10
foreign and domestic stations instead of allow
/ Ing them TO remain al Fort Monroe navy wards.