The Portland daily press., 1866-12-18

The fii st article agrees that the present claim
OF the late rebel agents is OF was on November
= 1866, tl5OOOO against property of the late
Confederate States The effect of this agree
ment is to pass over, without question or re-
mark, all appropriations of moneys, proceeds
OF cotton, &c, &c, amounting, some say, to
near a million of dollars; and leave Frazer,
Trenholm Y Co. in undisputed possession OF
the whole Confederate assets, realized before
the date of the instrument They are to have
that and G150.0O0 besides
Second. The amount they are to pay over
to the enited States depends upon themselves
Iney are 10 declare what property they have
and that declaration, not made under oath, is
final. The steamers named are only five, but
we know of five others in the same position
Why were they omitted?
Third. This property to be sold, at the best
price obtainable, by Messrs. Frazer & Go. So
they can sell it tor any nominal price they
please. l.r 1,. af. IL
Fifth. All suits pending between the Unit
ed States and Messrs. Frazer g. Co, are to be
Withdrawn, each party paying their own costs
This Is most infamous arrangement 1t is
well known that the United States Consul at
Liverpool, MIR. Dudley, at the request of the
State Department, had filed bill of discovery
against Frazer, Trenholm 81 Co., and if this
was successful, as might be anticipated, all the
transactions between this noted firm and their
British and Southern correspondents would
have been brought to light. All that was done
in England during the war, and for much of
which Great Britain irresponsible, would have
been disclosed. If anything is wanting to show
the hostile spirit with which, at one time, the
United States We're regarded, and the one
sided neutrality which was practieed, it would
have appeared. To an account of their doings
the United States We're entitled from Frazer &
Co, as righttul successors to Confederate de
fact authority, and Er9zer 81 Co, could not
have escaped rendering it. In pressing the
claims of the United States for damages by the
Alabama" we should derive essential or i'm
portant facts from Frazer & Co.'S correspon-
dence, and the Opportunity to inspeets thrown
away. The account they are bound to render
is simply one showing how the Indebtedness
for the e15O,OOO is made out, and the check put
upon it is simply an examination by an accaunt-
ant of their own approval.
A further examination of this agreement
will only disclose more Objectionable features.
1t only remains to say that it was made wholly
without the approval or knowledge of Mr..
Thos III. Dudley the American Consul at this
port To that gentleman is due the credit OF
discovering and arresting much OF the evil
which was Matched against the Government
and people of the United States, and it is not
too much to say that if the suits instituted by
him for the discovery of the property of the
United States, and the punishment of its enc
mics, had been allowed to go on, most satisfac-
tory results would have been reached, and an
amount of money saved of which the public
have little idea, and which now goes to swell
the ill-gOtten gains of the most notorious of the
enemies of the United States / was for years
in intimate daily communication with Mr..
Dudley, mostly in relation to the civil war and
transactions growing out of it, and now may
say, feel was OF some service to America; to
which owe so much. l am thoroughly con-
vinced of his integrity and patriotism and
know he has never made for himself anything
but reputation from all his exertions. Now it
seems that two people come in at the Ella last to de:
prive the country of her Dues and Mr.. Dudley
of his position. / hope the approval of the
Government will be withheld until full in
yestipation of the facts can be had