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A Conspiracy Against American
Credit.

Evidence has been received by ecretary
Seward Of the existence of IN organized
and extensive conspiracy in Canada and
Europe whose object it is to destroy the
credit Of the United States Government.
The malignancy and envy which has in
spired So large a proportion of English
and European aristocrats to every exer-
ton against this nation supplies the
animns for this new scheme, which pur
poses, if possible, to create a panic in re-
gard to American securities, and to force
home our bonds held abroad. In this
way it is hoped that a financial crisis may
be s~uperinduced and our commercial in
terests Frustrated. The active agent in
the matter is a man named Vernon, who
is said to be in correspondence with the
Rcthchilds, Hope and Co, of Amsterdam,
and other leading European bankers, in
reference to the subject. To further the
project Vernon has written a book, srgu-
ing that the United States is certain to
repudiate its debt, which is o in the
press, and the proOfsheets of which are
in the possession Of the State Department
The title Of this precious work is as fol-
lows: HRepudiation Of the National Debt
inevitable. Impossible to pay the interest
and support the Government the farmer,
artisan and laborer slaves to shoddy and
Wall street"
1t viii be observed that this tool Of the
Rothschilds sings precisely the same tune
with the Copperhead journals and orators
of the United States, who have all along
been prating about the immensely of the
National Debt, the terrible burden which
it lays upon the poor man, and the inc
quality Of taxation. By this sort Of talk
these Copperheads have been paving the
way, "a fast as they dared, to a repudia-
ton Of the entire debt. They have already
advocated q partial reputation Of it by
arguing in favor Of repudiating the prom
Use Of the Government that its bonds
should be exempt from taxation; and
when the LEADER proposed the passage
of a constitutional amendment binding
the payment Of the debt upon the United
States, the Plain Dealer vigorously OPP
posed the measure. BythiS purse these
Copperheads have gives aid and comfort
to the Rothscnilds and their tools in their
attack on American credit; and if that
attack is successful, and a financial crisis
is the result the American people may
thank the oOpperhead party for having
conceived, brought forth and nurtured
this phantom of reputation.
But the attack will not be successful.
Were the United States at present en-
gagged IN borrowing, such a crusade
against our credit might do US harm. But
our ample revenue more than meets our
largely diminished expenses, and we arc
now paying our debts instead of increas-
ing them. Beside this, were every dollar
of u securities held abroad forced back
into the United States, the people of this
country have faith enough in its perpet-
uity and prosperity to purchase all of
them. As long as there is aready market
for our bonds on this side of the Atlantic,
any panic in regard Wthem on the other
side will be but temporary and unim-
portant.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-16

is a retired, ~well-cared for, irreproachsble
street, on which all the houses are sur
rounded by iron ratings. Something in
dcscribable in their appearance tells of a
warm, comfortable and peaceful interior
In this cold North wind the passer-by
throws a curious and jealous look at the
glass Of the windows. 1t is there in a
small, nice house, charmingly arranged,
and full Of objects of art, collected in
Europe, that my excellent friend, Mr..
Sumner, lives.
Until now, l had onlyseen Mr.. Sumner
worried, busy, in Washington, in the
midst of files Of diplomatic papers, bound
by his position to a labor which left him
no liberty for the exercise of his genial
and friendly spirit. Now / must show
him to you at home, in his congenial ele-
ment, surrounded by his books, his en-
cravings, his statues, caring for them
with the love Of an old bachelor, careful
also in his personal habits, a lover of books,
a scholar, an antiquarian, and a man of
the world, elegant even when he walks
the city of Boston, where every one
knows and loves him, and where he is
greeted at every step.
l must introduce you, notwithstanding
the ~impropriety of it, to his library, hung
with precious e~ngravings, full Of old
books, of manuscripts, of gothic missals
and of rare editions, and to this grand
and robust man, like an American Of the
old school, who smilingly does the honors
oft is repository of rare things. Mean
while he questions you about literature,
about philosophy, about the manners OF
your country, without prejudice or parti-
ssnship-an investigator, who seeks con
t~inually to reverse his opinion. Politics,
in which he plays so grand q part, are for
him the business, the labor, which he for.
gets in hours of leisure. If you question
him, a few words, concise, but full of sin,
cere conviction, and he returns to his ia.
vorito subjects of conversation.
He seems pleased to show you that his
varied studies have left no field of litera-
ture or of history Unexplered; that long
ago he rambled through Europe as an ar
tist, u student and an observer; but be
does not pretend to smpOse his opinion:
upon you. You can, beside tell him al
the good that you think of him; nothing
pleases him more; but his just opinion o
himself is neither irritable or defiant, no
aggressive; it gives neither pride to hi
manners nor ostentation to his kindness
A good man, simple, cordial, sincere, sat
isfed with himself, happy to ditfust
among all who approach him the eonten
with which his nobly acquired fame anC
the eiteem Of good men inspire him,
have seen him hardly four times, and
fancy l have always known him.
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Some Moro Boston PiGtures-Omitted
Pictures.

The Boston portraits by N. Duvergier
de Hauranne, which we copied on Tuesday
from Every Saturday, contained the fol-
lowing sketch of Mr.. Ticknor, Of which
that journal omitted the greater part. We
here append the sketch;
Mr.. Winthrop presented me to Mr..
Ticknor, one of the lions of Boston, but a
lion of literature rather than of politics.
Everything at his dwelling recalled the
spacious interiors Of English mansions, al
air of comfort and luxury, tempered by a
taste at once simple and severe. lie is in
appearance a vigorous old man, careful in
dress, wearing his beard in the English
fashion, and, indeed, resembling an Eng
fish parliamentarian very much. His
bearing is interesting and extremely no.
table, though perhaps less sympathetic
than Mr.. Winthrop's. They both-Mr.
Ticknor especially-belong to a party here
called "Copperhead." Friends of slavery
in the land of abolition both a little ar
istocratic in the most democratic country
in the world; predicting, in careless mo-.
ments, the ruin Of liberal institutions and
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Republic, they
are drowning politicians badly resigned to
their fate. MIR. Ticknor especially, with
an ~obstinancy clshwhere allowed to his
sixty-three years, has always resisted the
movement which to-day regenerates Anne
RIGA. / see in him the man of the past,
whom nothing has been able to bend or to
soften, and who, although imposing on
his language the restraints which the
blindness of the age demands, is yet at
heart the confirmed friend of slavery.
Reserved by nature, scornful by instinct,
and held so by necessity, he does not speak
willingly of the affairs of his country.
One word in contempt of the skill of
the rulers of the day, an avowal that
American institutions had degenerated, a
disheartened silence more expressive than
many words, are all that l nave been able
to draw from him OF America. His par
Tor, wherea very literary society assemble,
is a p~ro-slavery ireside, where a stranger, I
DESTROYS of w%ounding no one, does not
breathe very freely. There made the ac-
quaintanee of a certain Mr.. billiard,
whom every one describes to me as one of
the chiefs of the party, who, while calling
himself the most opposed to slavery, made
out oft the entire theory to which he only
wanted the conclusion. 1t is remarkable
to see how those who hold these opinions
blush, in spite of themselves on avOwing
them. When an idea exercises such on
troll, it is felt that it is deep rooted, and it
would be as useless to combat it as to sail
the wind.
Very different is the tone of this young
.Frenchmau in speakingof Charles Sumner
at home:
Behind the State House, on the side of
The hill, which desCelds in q steep aleps,
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-16
THE WAR A PROMISING ONE.
PERSONAL.

Gen. Cass is said to be seriously i'll at
his home in Detroit, his advanced age
leaving but little hope of recovery. Mr..
Cass is now in his s2d year.
Col. Austin Bryant, a brother of Will
liam Cullen Bryant, died at Princeton,
Ill, on the LIST inst, at the age of 70 years.
He was a man ofrare integrity.
The London RevieD calls Mr.. Gladstone
1.-THE Teunyson of finance; !" for, it adds,
he ebrings to his public expeditions not
only the powers of his reason, but only the
resources Of his Imagination, and clothes
them with a beauty of diction and rich
ness of illustration which men delight to
hear"
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The recent bold and radical speech Of
Honarsble Thomas ]. Williams, Of Pitts
burgh, has met with great favor in Wash
ingtOn. The correspondent Of TIE New
York Tri5uns at the capital says that "in
point of argument as well as in literary
merit 1t was n Of the finest and most
successful productions Of this session. 1t
wal frequently interrupted by applause,
and at its close, the demonstration of en-
thusiam were SO irrepressible as to oblige
the presiding officer to adjourn the house
without being able to put the motion amid
the great confusion
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-16
STATE ITEMS.

The Noble County Republican learns
that the Upper Dutch Creek Petroleum
Company, operating near the village of
Olive, strueklast week, at the depth Of I4O
feet a vein of oil, pumping five barrels
inside Of "a hours.
The Morgan county Herald says the
post Office at Wood Grove has been dis
continued by order of the Postmaster Gen
eral, on account Of the Postmaster failing
TO make returns.
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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY.
Ito expire on the sIst day Of January, ls6T.)

Ito expire on the 3lst day Of January, ls6T)
OFFICE OF TIE AUDITOR OF STATE,
INSURANCE D~fPARTMENT,
COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 81, ls0S.J
WHEREAS, The Germans, Hanover, Niagara,
New York, in the State Of New York, have sWh
ton, as required by the First Section OF the A I
rated by the State OF Ohio" passed April 18th, 1855
AID amended Feb uary 9th, 1864. and, wheress,
each Of said companies has furnished the upder-
signed satisfactory evidence thas they are each
possessed Of at least ONE BUEDRED THOUSAND
Do, LARS OF AoruAL CAPITAL INVESTED in stocks
or Bonds, or in Mortgages Of Real Estatr, worth
doable the amount for which the same is mort
gagged; and, whereas, each Of said Companies has
filed in this Office a written statfment, under its
corporate seal, signed by the President and Seere-
tary thereof authorizing any agent or agents OF
said~ Companies in the State to acknowledge e Ivice
Of process, for and in behalf OF said Companies, &C.
corling to the terms OF said law.
Now, therefore, in pursuance Of the First See
ton of the aforesaid Act, 1, James II. Goldman,
Auditor of State for Ohio, do hereby certify that
said 6ermanin, Hanover, Niagara and RepHblie
Fire Insurance Companies Of New York are au-
thOrized to transact the business of Fire and Ma
rine Insurance in this State, until the thirty first
day of January, in the year One Thousand Right
Hundred and Sixty-seven.
In witness whereof, j have hereuntO sub
seribed my name, and caused the seal OF
my Office to be RdXed, the day and year
above written.
JAMES II. GOODMAN,
febI22s9 Auditor Of State.
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[STANP
CERTIFICATE OF Authority.

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY.
ITO expire on the Slst day of January, 1871 -
OFFIeE OF THE AUDITOR OF srArE,0
Insurance DEPARTMENT,
COLUMBUS, o., January %, 1856.
WHEREAS, the HOPE INSURANCE COMPANY
located at Providence in the State Of Rhode Island
condition., as required by the first section of the
act $50 regulate Insurance Companies not incor-
porated by the State Of Ohio" passed April 8,
1856, and amended February 0, 1854; and, Whereas,
said Company has furnished the undersigned salts
factory evidence that IL is possessed of at least
Ono Hundred Thousand Dollars Of Actual Capital
Invested in stocks, or bonds, or in mortgages of
real estate, worth double the amount for which the
same Is mortgaged and, Whereas, said Company
has filed in this office a written instrument under
its corporate seal, signed by the President aud Sec
rotary thereof, authorizing any agent or agents Of
-aid Company in this state o acknowledge service
Of process, for and in behalf Of said Company &C.
cOrding to the terms Of said law.
Now, There ore, in pursuance of the first section
OF the aforesaid act, I James II. Goldman, Auditor
of state for Ohio, do hereby certify that said Hope
Insurance Company Of Providence is authorized to
transact the business Of Fire and Marine Insu-
rance in this State until the thirty-frst day of
January, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seycn.
TsEALl In witness whereof, I have hereunto sub
seribrd my name and caused the seal Of
my office to be affixed the day and year
[sTAAPl above written.
JAMES II. GOODMAN,
Auditor of State.
RUNNELLS & MANCHESTER, Agents,
fabI42gO CLEVELAND.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-16

land and France attracted much attention.
The orators attacks on the policy of
England were very pointed, and clothed
in the strongest language. Such an at
tack might have been well justified
in a speech delivered before a politi-
cal meeting. or in the Se.ate or
House; but considering that the
Diplomatic representatives of foreign
powers were officially invited to attend
the exercises in commemoration of Mr..
Lincoln, such an ungracious demonstra-
ton was, to say the least, of very ques-
tionable propriety. If such a thing was
contemplated, the diplomatic representa-
tives of the powers concerned ought not
to nave been invited TO hear them. IT
would not have been surprising if Sir
Frederick Bruce, when he found himself
subjected to this c~astigation, and saw the
eyes Of tho whole assembIage turned upon
him. had risen up from his seat and left
the hall. If an American representative
abroad had done so under similar circum-
stances, the people of the United States
would not have found fault with him;
they would, perhaps, have applauded it as
a proper vindisation of the dignity of his
Government. The French Minister was
not present, andI I'M trustworthy inform
ed that the reason for his absence was that
he had learned beforehand what Mr.. Ban
croft was going TO say about our relations
with France. If people abroad did not
know that such demonstration in this
| country do not have the same importance
they would have abroad, great significance
might be attributed to the circumstance
that Mr.. Bancroft had been living, several
days previous to the delivery Of his ad
dress, at the White House, in intimate in
tercourse with the President.
The World says;
Let any intelligent reader, after having
gone attentively through Mr.. Baneroft's
Grafton, lay it down, and attempt to recall
all the ideas that are new, and north
kHotgiHg, which he has found in it. Ex-
cept the marvellous assertion that Turgot
was the author of the Monroe doctrine,
his new knowledge, we suspect, will
amount to very little.
Mr.. Bancroft's pompous and elaborate
introduction reminds US of Carlyle's figure
of half a cubic inch of soap beaten up, by
the aid of a brush and a little water, TO a
puncheon of lather. Its leading thought
is neither new nor happily developed.
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THE LIREL
The following is the matter which the


Indictment ~recites as libellous:
Alexander 7. Stewart who cameto New
York in 1925 as a young man with $3.50
in his pocket, and who s%traightway COM
menced peddling hosiery and small wares,
selling laces by sample, and soon after
renting a little hole of a shop in Maiden
land, is at this moment by far the richest
man on the continent. = . . > Stew
art is a long-headed hard-fsted, selfish
trader. He has no scruples of honor about
breakingdowna weaker competitor, which
he can do without legal penalty. = y
Yet this man with all his vast wealth, is
far from being comfortable. One of the
richest men in all the world is one of the
most miserable. There is an example here
in New York of a prominent business
man who is continually driven by his af-
fairs so that he cannot take even n day
out of seven for rest, and not one in a
year for recreation. He never, or rare
ly invites any one to dine with him,
and it is said his domestic relations
are dreadfully infelicitous, though 1t
is not peculiar to m~illiOnaires.
Ho is reported TO have offered his
wife half a million lately to consent to
a divorce; but she, with a cunning and an
avarice worthy of her selfish spouse, re-
fuses, hoping to outlive him. He has no
heirs of his own, but has several by side
issues. He allows his wife. a splendid
house and ten thousand dollars Il year
pin-money, and is building a new palatial
mansion on Fifth Avenue, to cost q mil
lion dollars, which he allows one of his
mistresses, a house and five thousand dol
lars a year ~pin-money. He is fearful OF
his personal safety, and, not long ago, dis
covered a plan TO abduct him, so as to ex-
tort money from him by force. He never
gives anything to charity, but sometimes
| does t. politics.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-16

Judah P. Benjamin is studying English
law in the chambers of Mr.. Pollock, in
the Temple in London, with a view Of be-
ing called to the English bar,
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-16
STEWARDS LIBEL SUIT.
indictment of r. +. COIburn for Libel
on A. T. Stewart-He PleadS Not
Guilty and IL Ready to SO On with
the Case-HistOFy Of the Suit.

The telegraph has already informed our
readers of the arrest of R T.Colburn, ESQ.,
one of the editors of the New York
Tribune, for an alleged libel on A. T.
Stewart, of New York city, contained in a
letter to the Missouri Republican, written
by the latter. Mr. Colburn is well known
in this city, having spent several months
here as a patient at the water-cure, and
we therefore condense from the New York
Hsrearg the following account of the
case:
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GREAT PRIZE DISTRIBUTION
BIZ THE
New York Gift Association,
7I3 broadway, New Work. rs
POWOoOVOJ
be Sold for One Dollar Each

To De Sold for One Dollar Eacn
without regard to value, and not 10 be paid for
until you knew what you will receive.
Among those who have recently drawn TALU-
ABLE GIFTS from this Association, the following
kindly permit their names 90 Be esed
deon, value $50. W.. =. T. Willis, W. "a s..
New York, Diamond Cluster Pin, value soc. Mrs.
r. G.. Tappan, I5 York-st., Gold Watch, value
L, Melodson, ralus 500. Mr.. Z. H Stone, So
feminist, NY, Piano, value $3.50. Mrs Teresa
A. Miller, Scranton, Pa, Diamond hing, value
$40. Miss Ellen J, Peck, Springfield, u.s. Me-
ton, D.. O., Gold Hunting cssed Watch, value s15c.
Edward Il. Lindsay, Worcester, Mass, Piano,
value s26o. Miss D. H. Farwell, Dubuque, Iowa,
Diamond Ear Drops, value $50. Francis J. No
ran, l2S Pearl street, Music Box. value $40. Mrs..
r. G. lngerSoIl, Urbana Ohio, Silver set, value eco.
Lieut.. B. +. Hendricks, WIZARDS Hotel wash
ington, d. O., Silver Patent Lever Watch, valae
SIS. Captain I. Warner, 18th N. Y, Vols, silver
Watch, value SIS. H. Taylor, Ringtown. Pa,
Gold Patent Lever Watch. value S10O. Jas. a.
Bruce, Nashville, Tenn, Silver Watch, $40. Geo.
d. Wood, Whitby, Canada West, Silver Watch,
s45. VIM. B. Redhsld, Columbus, o., Music Boz,
$40. Many persons who have drawn valuable
prizes, do not wish their names published or We
might extend this list. Letters from various par.
ties throughout the country, acknowledging the
receipt Of valuable gifts, may be seen on ale in oar
once.
MAxSER or DIsFErsUTIoH.
CERTIFICATES naming each article end iS
VALUE, are placed In SEALED ENVELOPES,
which are well mixed. Ono Of these Envelope,
containing the Certificate or Order for SONS Ard-
cle,) porfk at iea& one dollar afreaH,) will Be deliver
ed at our ONCE, or sent by mail to any address,
without regard to eholcs on receipt OF Is csuts.
The purchaser will see what Article It draHs, and
its value, which may be from One 80 ivo
Hundred Dollars, and can then send one
Dollar and receive the Article named.
- NO BLANKB-BEery purchaser gets
value. a
Parties dealing with rs may depend On having
prompt returns, and the article drawn viii b I'M
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OFFICE OF H AUDITOR OF STATE,

OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR OF STATE,
COLUMBUS, o., January 20, 1866.
1t is Hereby Certified, That the foregoing is a cor
rect copy Of the Stttement of Condition of the
Hope Insurance. Company Of Providence, made to
and filed in thio Office, for the year 1866.
IsRAL Witness my Hand and Seal officially.
JAMES II. GOODMAN,
[SrAMP1 Auditor Of State.
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND,
COUNTY OF PROVIDENCE
Samuel Shove, President, and Joseph Martin,
Secretary of the Hope Insurance Company, being
seveTnlly sworn, depOse and say, that the foregoing
Is a full, true and correct statement Of the affairs
of the said Company, that the said Insurance Conf
pany Is the bona ide owner 81 at least One Hun
dred Thousand Dollars Of actual Cash Capit4l In
vested in Stocks and Bonds, and that they ara the
above described Officers of said Insurance Com.
pany.
SAMUEL SHOVE, President.
JOSEPH MARTIN Saereta V.
Subscribed and swsrn before me, this 24th day of
January ls6d-
LUCIUS G. ASHLEY,
Five Cent Stamp.l Justice Of the Peace.
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Il Capltai ana ouTptus...s.'
ASSETS.
LIABILITIES.
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81, $50 80

Statement Of the condition Of the Republic Fire
Insurance Company, of the City of New York, on
the LIST day OF January, 1886, In conformity with
the laws of the State OF Ohio.
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THE BANKRUPT 1 L

An effort will be made in the House
this week to put the Bankrupt bill on its
passage, Mr.. Jenckes, its author, leading
of with another speech in its favor.
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S-s,sus ss


Losses in process Of adjustment------ S2i,6SO 90
Statement Of the condition OF the Niagara Fire
Insurance "ompany, Of tive City of New York, on
the let day OF January. 1866, in conformity with
the laws of the state Of Ohio.
CAPITAL.
naah Cnnitnl and SnrnIna --Gl -2aA I2a co
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DISSOLUFION OF PARTNERSHIP.-
NTHONY BARR IS A PARTNkR IN
THE ANNUAL MEETING or TIKI

10. PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. = The
~ Seed Business carried on for the past 2a years
under the name of. Stair & Son, being dissolved
by the deeea-e Of the Senior Partner, John Stair,
1 have associated with me in business A. q. Ken
del, WHO has been in the employ OF the old firm for
ten years past The business will DO continued at
the old stand, lis Ontario street, under the name
Of r. II. Stair & Co., who will settle all unsettled
business Of the late firm. EN-. H.. STAIR,
Cleveland, January, 1868. jan3O- 29O
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Behind the State House, on the side of
the hill, which descends in q steep alepe,