The Indianapolis daily herald., 1865-11-18
THE CANADIAN FRIGHT.
From New York.
The Smuggling ON the Canadian
frontier.-Ihe Naval Court Wa rita I
..Mexican Affairs.

The Smuggling ON the Canadian
frontier.-Ihe Naval Court Martial
-.Mexican Affairs.
NEW YORK. November 1.-THE Tribune
special says: The Government has decided 10
appoint female detectives for the purpose OF
searching suspicious women, who are extern
sively engaged in smuggling silks and other
fine goods into the United States by way of the
Grand Trunk Railroad. Buffalo is believed 70
be the grand depository Of these goods.
Ii is rum0rnd that the gunboats at the Ports
mouth Navy Yard are being prepared for sea.
The liOrtd special says: General Duff Green
i not dead, at was reported. but alive and well
In Washington.
Governor Curtin, who has been i'll i'm this
city for two weeks, is recovering.
The Times special says: Application to-day
was made 10 The Navy Department by Ethan
Allen. Of New York, in behalf of the Russian
American Overland Telegraph Company. for
a naval vessel TO aid in laying the cable across
behring's Straits. The application was re-
fused by the Secretary of the Navy, ON the
ground that IL was exclusively private mat
ter.
The Times special says that the witnesses
thus far examined in the Craven court martial
case have given their weight Of testimony In
favor OF the Commodore.
The World Washington special SAYS: The
trial Of Captain Petit, an artillery officer, at
Alexandria, on a charge Of cruelty to prison.
ers, Is progressing before general court mar
ual. ne testimony thus Tar adduced has been
very strong in support of the charge.
The Herdids Washington special says: A
batch Of sixteen prisoners, threc-fourths of
whom were colored, convicted of various Of
lenses ranging from larceny upward in the
catalogue Of 0fienses, We're to-day forwarded TO
10 the Albany penitentiary.
Brigadier General Il. :. Finch. successor of
General Weitzel as Chief Engineer under Gen.
eral Butler, has been granted n years leave of
absence. which he will spend in Florida.
NEW YORK, November 1.-THE Times
special says: Among the property captured
by the Federal forces just before the close Of
the rebellion was a draft belonging the rebels
dated January II, 1868, for thousand pounds
sterling, drawn by the rebel Government on
the house of Brown. shepley & Co., London.
This draft was sent 10 New York for collection
to-day. The Secretary Of the Treasury re-
ceiyed official intelligence that the DRAFT had
been paid. The sum l. Sl4,6 3S I'm gold
The World Washington dispatch SAYS: In
telligence has been received here to-day and
mas been communicated to the proper authori-
ties, relative 10 the situation i'm Mexico
"A gentleman has arrived here whose word
can be youched for, who says that while ON his
way from Tabasco 10 New York, within the
past two weeks, he met an agent of Mazimil-
ian who stated that affairs Were nearly In cx-
trcmes for the Imperialists, that every reported
victory Of the Imperialists brought with IL no
substantial results and that on account of their
inability 10 draw from the rural districts, sup
plies, etc, the war against the Liberals was
carried on AT dead expense. Hefurther added
he had been dispatched by Maximillian to
France 10 ask for one hundred million dollars
and forty thousand troops, and that I'm the
event Of Napoleon failing 10 furnish men and
means, the evacuation Of Mexico by the French
must soon follow.
Macmillan was paying visit 10 Yucatan.
but he had removed his personal effects 10 a
safe place in case the city Of Mexico had to be
evacuated.
The Emperor was also shipping good deal
Of specie 10 Europe The action of this gov
eminent, il is said, Will hasten events on the
part Of Macmillan.