Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-30
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New YORK, September 2S.-The Herald's
Washington special says: A plan has been
| transmitted to the Secretary of the Treas
ury which, 1t is understood, meets the ap3
proval of bankers and financial men, who
have conferred on the subject of New
York, by means, of which it will be pracl
tical to accomplish, the resumption of spe-
Gle payment In FIVE years, retire all the
national bank currency notes within ninety.
days, substitute greenbacks as the sUle cur
rency1 Of the country, give commerce and
the west ninety millions increased bank
circulation in greenbacks, and reduce the.
coin interest debt $500. 600 900, and all In a
manner satisfactory to the banking and
financial Interests OF all sections. = d
| Denies tho Assertion
A Boston, paper recently published a
telegram to the effect that Secretary
McCuiloch was short of currency funds
and would, in consequence, throw twenty
mllllons'of gold on The market. The Sec
retary says there Is no truth in such a re-
port and he has forbidden any one about
MS Office from furnishing information to
newspaper correspondents in future, ex-
cept heads OF bureaus designated by HIM
Seized Under Misapprehensi6n.
1t now appears that the Farmers and
citizens National Bank of Brooklyn was
selZed under misapprehension. a.-5 =
Revenue Frauds in the Tobacco Busi-
ti = ness. ..
An Inspector, who has Just returned to
make his report to Commissioner Rollins;
after six months tour through the West
and Southwest, represents the frauds upon
the revenue in the tobacco business as
scarcely inferior in extent and enormity to
the whisky frauds. His attention was div
rected to the tobacco trade exclusively.
and he states that in the brief time he has
been away he has discovered frauds to the
extent of half a million of dollars. These
were mostly brought to light in St. Louis,
Cincinnati, Louisville, Cairo and Memphis.
The stencil marks used by the tobacco in
spectors of the Second Revenue District
are frequently c0unterfeited and used. The
tobacco thus marked is sent out. of the
district and sold elsewhere, thus escaping
the atten ton of the regular inspectors. /,
Consultation in Reference to the Trf-
!, ~. al OF jeff. Davis. .-.sa9
Judge Underwood and l.. FL. Chandler
United States District Attorney for Vir-
ginia. are here in consultation with the
Attorney General relative to the trial of
JEFF. Davis in November. Mr.. Chandler,
who Is the prosecuting officer in the case,
will. it is understood, be governed in his
action entirely by the advice of Mr.. Stan
bury. Judge Underwood and Mr.. Chand-
lerare both of the opinion that sufficient
testimony can be produced to convict Da-
Wis. provided the case is allowed to take the
regular course without any interference
from the authorities here. The friends of
Davis. including his bondsmen, assert that
he will put in an appearance at court when
wanted and that heis not only willing, but;
anxious to go through regular trial on
the Indictment against him. 10 -
The ConstitutiODaIity of the R econ.
struction Laws 10 be Tested.
The Worlds Washington special saws ::
Important official information has been re-
ceived here ttat judicial steps have been
taken in General Pope's district to secure
the right Of suffrage by the recent amnesty
proclamation. Several citizens of Alabama,
who have been pardoned by the proclama-
tion. have been before the boards of regis
tration, which are now revising the lists,
and demand the right to be registered.
General Pope Instructed the boards to re-
fuse to register them, and they were re-
fused. Hon. S. F. Rice, of Montgomery,
an ex-Judge of Alabama, who was one
OF the parties, went before the United
States Commissioner and made affidavit Of
the fact with s,view of testing, in the U.
S. courts, the constitntionality of the mill
tary reconstruction laws and the powers
conferred bv an Executive pardon. SINH
lar movements will be made in all of the
Southern States where registration is not
closed, and if legal redress fails before
Judges Busted and Underwood in Alabama
and Virginia, his Honor, Chief Justice
Chase, can look at his Presidential pros
poets over decision on the military acts
in his circuit court in North Carolina. This
important movement is exciting deep in
terest in official circles here.