The Portland daily press., 1868-08-29
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WASHINGTON.
THE WHITE sULpHvR SPRINGS cABAL.

THE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS CABAL
WASHINGTON. Aug. 28.-There continues to
be much speculation here regarding the as
semblage OF rebels at White Sulphur Springs,
Va. and the part which General Rosecrans
has taken in their meetings. There can be
no longer any doubt that their ostensble OBJ
ject is to make electionering capital for their
favorites, Seymour and Blair, and by issuing
an address full of hyprocrtical protestations
of devotion to the Union, to influence the votes
of Northern men, and at the same time en-
courage their friends at the South. Their real
object of meeting at the Springs in such num-
bers may be something worse The state
ments which have been given, that Rosecrans
went to the Springs only for his health are
found to be mere excuses, as also the reports
that he went in the interest of some railroads
with which he is connected. He is now en-
route to this city, and has in possession GER
tain papers which will be duly made public as
soon as they have been vised !" by the leaders
of the campaign, in order to prevent iniudi-
cous publication. The General is expected
here this evening.
NEW YORK, Aug. est is stated that Gen
eral ROsocrans addressed a letter to General
Lee on the affairs of the country, and request
ed written expression of the latter's views of
the best plan of restoring good feeling, Gen
eral Lee responded, expressing a reverence for
the Constitution, and desire for the complete
union of the States, as OF old, and belief that
his desire was shared by the mass of the reflect
says, is anxious for peace and peaceful ad-
ministration of the Government. Also, that
the Southern people will treat the colored oeo-
pie kindly and humaney, if left to themselves
He emphaticalIy deplores the attempt to COM
init the destinies of the South to the colored
people, before they are prepared for such a
responsibility, and considers such an attempt
fraught with misfortunes and calamities and
with destruction also to the negroes them
selves. His letter is endorsed by Beauregard
Stevens and Stuart.
ASSIGNMENTS.
Brevet Maj. Gen Barry, Colonel ID artillery,
has been ordered to report in person to the
Secretary of War. Brevet Major William
Russell, ir., 4th cavalry. has been assigned to
duty at Headquarters Department of the
Louisiana
TIE REPORTED COUNTERFEIT 1905.
1t is stated at the Treasury Department that
no counterfeit 7-30 notes have been present
ed for redemption or conversion for several
months
sazl3sss INDIAN AFFAIRS.
The Indian Bureau has received advices
from Superintendent Murphy dated at Gibson,
Kansas, Aug. %. He says he fully coucurs in
the views expressed in Agent Wynkoop's
letter, that inocent Indians who are trying to
keep in good faith with their treaty pledges,
should be protected, while he earnestly
recommends that the Indians who have COM
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over to the military authorities, and thai they
be severely punished. In view of the impor
lance of the case, / earnestly recommend that
Mr.. Wynkoop be furnished promptly with the
views of the Department, and that full in
structions be given him for his future action.
He suggests that he be empowered to take In
dams whom he knows to be gultless of the
depredations committed on the Sabine river,
and who are DESTROYS of remaining at peace,
and locate them with their lodges and faml-
l,ao of rnod nniOf which no ms Splart
10 the vicinity of Fort Larned, and let those
Indians be subsisted entirely by the Govern
ment until this trouble is over, and be kept
within certain bonds, and let him be furnished
with small battalion of United States troops
for the purpose of protecting them from their
own people, and from being forced into war.
Let those who refuse to respond to his call to
come within the bounds prescribed, be consid-
eled at war, and let them be properly punish
ed By this means if war takes place-which
he considers inevitable-there will be ability
10 discriminate between those who deserve
punishment and those who do not.
THE VISIT OF GEN. RosECRANs TO WHITE SUI
PHUR SPRINGS
General Rosecrans returned to Washington
this evening and resumed his quarters at Will
lards Hotel. Much anxiety having beeen ex-
pressed in regard to the object of his visit to
Greenbriar, White Sulphur Springs, he was
soon after his arrival here asked various ques-
lions on that subject, all OF which he answered
readily and frankly. His responses showed
that his purposes had been mistated in some
of the letters furnished to the press by cores
pondents at the Springs, while in others, there
was to say the least, exaggerated accounts con-
corning him, so far from his having been sent
thither on political mission, he having acted
in conformity with the a. vice of his friends
after consultation with them. The visit was
of his own conception, and undertaken
for his own personal satisfaction, to ascer-
tain from representative of the South
ern States, whether there were any obstacles
in way of peace between that section of the
country and the North. He was satisfied that
the pow er which organized and sustained the
Contederacy for four years against the gigan-
tic efforts of the United States to suppress the
rebellion could exercise great influence in re-
storing peace, order and stability everywhere
and at the same time promote all the material
interests OF the country. He was received by
Gen Lee and other prominent Southern SOL
diers with marked cordiality; in all their per-
sonal conversations Chey were frank and I'M
reserved, and their conversations were mainly
with reference to advancing the interests ire
spective of the causes which for a time divid-
ed the North and South, and which resulted
in the reconstruction acts of Congress.
Gen. Rosecrans says his visit was salts
factory, that the temper and tone of those
Southerners was worthy of patriotic apprecia-
tion, aud that there IL no authority for the
statements that he intends to issue an address
contact. His visit was for the purpose of as
certaiuing for himself their feelings and views
He does Lot know that any publication from
him is required or may become necessary The
propriety OF any such course rests exclusively
with himself.
Gen Rosecrans, after receiving further in
strucuous from the State Department, will
leave Washington for Brown County, Ohio, tc
see his family.
SETTLERS FOR VIRGINIA
The Richmond Wing of to-day says: Som
odd persons, originally from Holland, but NOR
recently from Michigan, where there is larg
Dutch settlement, arrived in this city yestel
day, on their way to Amelia County, wher
they will purchase lands already set apart fo
them and settle. This is the fruit of negotia
tons that we have heretofore spoken of be
tween the Rev. Mr.. Van Roal and Gen limbo
den, and is but the beginning of what we ma
expect in the same way.