Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
Con. sedgwIcIxs Operations Will
Cause no Trouble.

Con. SedgwIck's operations will
Cause no Trouble.
New YoRK, Dec. 13.-The Times Wash
ington special says Gen. Sheridan tele-
graphs Gen. Grant that Sedgwick's acts
have given rise to no complications. Es-
Goba1o had asked Sheridan not to hold
Sedgwick responsible forit. There Is not
a city or State in Mexico which takes issue
with the Juarez Government.
Increase of the Currency-IncOrrect.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-Mr. Stevens will
renew his proposition for an increase OF the
currency at an early day.
The report that the nomination of Gen.
Dix as Minister to France has been con-
firmed Is erroneous, as combinations have
not been made. n
The Settlement with Frazier,
Trenholm e. Co. DisnvOwed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.--The settlement
made by Consul Morse at London, with
Frazier, Trenholm & Goa the disavowal Of
which by the United States was mentioned
in recent dispatches from this city, pur-
ported to be settlement of all claims of
the United States against that firm, involy-
ing many thousand pounds sterling. 1t
appears that proceedings in chancery were
being vigorously prosecuted by our Con-
sui at Liverpool, Mr. Dudley, who had sue
ceeded in forcing Frazier, Trenholm q Co.
into position when they were compelled to
make full disclosure on oath ofall the deal
ings of that blockade running firm with the
Confederate Government, including all the
transactions of the rebel Secretary Of the
Treasury, Mr.. Geo. A. Trenholm, together
with full exhibition Of all their books
and papers. To avoid this disagreeabe
and fatal disclosure. Frazier, Trenholm 81
Co. sought and effected the settlement
which has been clandestnely made through
consul Morse and one Montgomery Gibbs,
reputed agent of the Treasury Department,
which agreement provides for dismissing
all the legal proceedings in England and
the United States, and giving up all
claims of the United States, and merely re-
quires that Frazier, Trenholm & Co.
shall state, not under oath, what Con-
federate property they have had In their
possession, that they shall dispose of the
same and after paying themselves one hum
dred and fifty thousand pounds, which,
without any statement of an account, is
agreed upon as the Indebtedness of the
Confederate Government to them, and that
they shall pay the remaining balance to
the United States The settlement was
made by Consul Morse, under color of gem
eral authority from the Treasury Depart
ment to secure Confederate property
in England. but has been properly rejected
by the United States Government
on the ground that it is relinquishing
everything to Frazier, Trenholm & Co,
and was in fact utterly without authority
on the part OF the Consul at London, whose
instructions did not apply to these pro-
ceedings, which were under the sole man
agement of the Consul at Liverpool, and
Mr.
settlement behind the back of Consul
Dudley, and without the knowledge of
United States Minister Adams, with
out whose sanction no action of Consul
Morse was to be valid. The disavowal of
the agreement having gone forward
| to England by telegraph, due legal pro-
ceedings will be renewed and pressed with
vigor until every dollar of Confederate
property in the hands of the chief financial
agents OF the rebellion shall be secured.
J.W. FOrney WIIhdrnNvs in Favor
of 'Fhnd. Stevens.
Col. J. w. Forney has written letter tC
the Hon. Wilmer. Worthington, of Pa, ir
which he asks a Withdrawal OF his name
should it be presented in the Union caucus
as candidate for United States Senator
With no disposition to underrate others, hi
is free to say he thinks the election Of Hon
Thad. Stevens, as the successor of Mr.
Cowan, would promote lasting harmony il
their household and would unquestionabll
secure to the United States and the natiol
a champion of those great principles o
matchless experience, integrity and cOur
age.
Rinderpest in Switzerland.
Consul Wolff reports the introduction o
the rinderpest into Switzerland from Aus
oria by means of a drove of cattle pur'
chased in the market at Vienna. 1t spreaC
at once among stables and herds in tive
CantOns, but the energetic efforts of thu
authorities promised to stamp it out with
out great loss. a
Gold Mines on the Potomac.
/ Nearly all the gold mining companies VI
the Potomac river are represented as dOin;
well. Some of them on assay yielded 50,
400 to the ton. Some of the companies ar
erecting machsnery, while Others are il
full operation.