The New York herald., 1868-06-29

cold by falling to receive a renomination Those
favoring adjournment talk about fixing the time be-
tween the 18th and 10th Of July.
An efrort will be made by the Senate to pass the
Tax bill before the close of the present week.
The Ashbnrn Murder-Barbnrous Treatment
Of Suspected Persons.
The military commission for the trial of the per.
sons accused OF being implicated in the Ashburn
murder at Columbus, Ca. will commence its session
at Atlanta, IN that State, tomorrow.
Several OF the delegates from Georgia to the New
York Convention are here. They represent the con-
duct Of the military authorities in that state as in
tolerable to the last degree In the case Of hunting
up evidence concerning the assassination OF Ashburn
several other persons. both white and black, have
been arrested, one Of them being white woman. All
OF them are held as witnesses and confined in mar
row cells at Fort Pulaski The military authorities
have Onered reward OF g., 900 for the arrest and
conviction OF the ringeader OF the attack on Ash
burn and for the arrest and conviction OF each
OF the other parties concerned. The preliminary in
vestigatons 1t Is said, tmplicate upwards OF forty
persons In the murder, which makes the amount OF
the reward rather respectable sum to incite the
detectives engaged in ferretng out the evidence to
an energetic discharge Of their duties. As the mur-
der was committed In low negro brothel large
number OF negroes are supposed to have witnessed
it, and the detectives have, therefore arrested many
negroes, and having full liberty to use every means
In their power to extract the TRUTH have been prac
isng upon them the greatest seventies to force hem
as they say, to tell the truth These gentlemen state
that one Of the methods recently employed on the
reticent c0ored witnesses was confinement in the
sweat box, an instrument Of torture so contrved as
to exert constant pressure upon the chest by the
working Of screw. The sides of this box are
gradually pressed against the lungs until there Is no
longer room for the least expansion then the victim
Is placed in q room heated with steam or hot air.
where the oppression upon the lungs so great that
the exertion to breathe amounts to indescribable
agony These methods, the delegates think, are well
calculated to the forty thousand dollars if they
do not elicit the truth.
Probable Early Confirmation of MIR. Smythe
Minister to Austria.
II is understood from reliable authority that Henry
A. Smythe, of New York, recently nominated by the
President as Minister to Vienna will be confirmed.
Mr. Smythes high official character has won for him
many warm friends in the Senate-a sufficient num-
Der, 1t Is ascertained, to set aside any doubts.
The Alleged Frauds in Settling Colored
Bounties.
The Congressional Committee of which Mr. Lin.
coin Is chairman, proceeded to the Adjutant Gene
rails office and the Second Auditors Office yesterday,
and began investigation into the charges OF fraud
in the settlement Of coored bounties. Sufficient
evidence was obtained to warrant the continuance
of the examination, and all the rooms containing the
records in which the proof Of the alleged frauds is to
be found have been locked, placed in charge of men
who are instructed to permit no unauthorized person
to enter them and the further transaction OF busi-
ness interdicted until the investigation is closed.
The chairman of the committee will be absent from
the city for few days, but the investigation will be
continued by Messrs. Holman and Cobb, OF the CON-
mittee, assisted by Register Jefsies and Mr. S. V.
Reeve of the Treasury and Colonel Scott, OF the War
Department.
Preparation of Statistics Relative to the
Manufacture Of Gold and silver Ware.
The following letter has been sent by the Commits
soner of the General Land ONCE to the Secretary OF
the Treasury
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
GENERAL LAND OFFICE, June 25, 1868.
Hon. HUGH McCULLocH, Secretary OF the Treasury
Washington ID. c.
Notwithstanding that manufacturers, to avail
themselves OF the benefit OF the exemption from IN
iacture of wares, watches and watchcases, and bull
lion prepared for the use OF platers and watch
makers, provided in section ninety-sx of the act
OF June 80, 1854 and section ten OF the act Of July
IL, 1866, accompany their monthly returns, with
statements OF the quantities OF gold and silver bullion
consumed each month, Observed that valuable data
was thus furnished from which TO estimate the guam
titles OF the precious metals annually consumed In
manufactures in the United states: but ON appllca.
tlOn TO the Bureau Of Internal Revenue was informed
that such monthly returns and statements are never
sent up by the officers with whom they are led and
that there consequently OF access 10 them
here. As am accumulating statistics touching the
production and consumption OF gold and silver In
connection with administrative action IN TINS once
pertaining TO our mineral lands, VIII esteem II as
very special favor If you will direct the assessors OF
the following districts TO transmit to this office, as
speedily as practicable, the monthly returns and
statements to quantities OF bullion consumed for
the fiscal years ending June 30 1857 and 1863 of man.
uiactures of gold and silver ware, watches, chains.
jewery and other articles, in their respective dis
trcts to be subject 10 your further order after the
same have been examined here.
DISTRICTS.
Connectcut-Flrst district Observation-Disclosures
ond Third, Sixth and Eighth districts. Rhode IS
land-First district. New York--lhird Fourth Fifth,
Tweniy-third and Thirty ysecond districts. New Jer
sey-Frst and second districts. Pennsylyania-First
and Second districts
! have -the honor to be, very respectfully, your
Obedient servant.
JOS. s. WILSON Commissioner.