Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-23
Fraudulent Importation of Books
Brought to Light.

Fraudulent Importation Of Books
Brought to Light.
NJ. Freauet and the RumOred ROths-
child Loan.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
WAsHINGTON, October 22.-The
President and Cabinet feel cOnsidera-
BILE interest in the Tennessee election,
and are daily advised by telegraph OF
the Senatorial prospects OF eX-Presi-
dent johnson. A member of the Cab
met to-day received a dispatch stating
that the ballOting thus S9r indicated
| the defeat of Johnson and the s2lec-
ton Of soai8 gan not heretofore prom
/ inently mentioned.
| Hon, Thomas Ewing, 81, became
so excited to-day in an argument bey
| fore the saPFeiae Court that he fell
unconscious TO the floor. Every atten-
ton was paid him by those near, and
! he was soon restored to CONSCIOUSNESS.
| According to letters received here
! from Senators and Members, no less
than four bills aFc prepared for intro
! duction in Congress in Becem bpr pro-
yiding for funding the public qeitt,
with a four per cent. bond, coiR inter
est. Some of the bills provide for a
! sinking fund in addition.
Just a. soon as it is definitely Rscer-
tajnsd that a Federal offlee-holder in
1 Texas supports Hamilton for Cover
nor, he is at once Fem9Yed. The Col
! lector of the Third Texas DISTRICT vas
to-day removed, and in . fe& days
additional victims viii be ANNOUNCED.
The Treasury Department has cong
menced an investigation ofthe charges
that Assistant Treasurer Butterheld,
of New York, has been specializing IN |
gold. and If they are sustained, he ls !
10 be dismissed. The President sent
his Private Secretary to New SQTh /
yesterday, to confer with Collector |
Grinnell, and learn Buttcrfeld's story, |
1t will be recollected that one-third |
of the Senators 20 out at the end Of |
every Congress, and in the case OF 1
Virginia, the terms will be counted a I
though there had Deei 2 regular rep /
resentatiOn since 1851 the IefEs just /
elected, therefore, will expire in 1871 I
and 1873.
The superintendent Of the mounted |
infantry service at Carlisle Barracks /
has been ordered tp forward without /
delay all disp0sable cOlOFed recruits |
at that place 10 Galveston, Texas, from |
which place they will be reported by |
telegraph To the commanding General 1
OF the Eighth Military District, HOus- |
ton, Texas.
Gen. Keyganawaki, Supervisor of |
Georgia and Florida, reports under |
date Of October 18th, that jackson and |
| Washington counties, in Florida, are |
under control Of an armed mob, which !
has risen 10 prevent the execution Of
the revenue laws. The leader OF the |
mob i one James j. CGker, who is |
represented TO be a wealthy and in |
! fiuential man. He has threatened As
sistant Assessor Low, of Mari
anna, with personal violence, and
has challenged him to fight;
and that officer writes to his
superior that he only canvasses his
district at the hazard of his life.
| Assessor Wilson writes, cOrroboiaing
! his Assistants statement,
The Collector Of Customs at Jack
sOnville, FlOrida-J, A. DOckey-
writes to the Supervisor that the State
Tax Collector and his wife were bru
| tally murdered in Washington county,
adjoining Jackson, and that there had
! been seven murders in Jackson county
since the Sd inst, and that the Gov
emmCut officers are in iminent dam
ger, The Supervisor has called iOr
/ troops.
FROM CUR EXCHANGES.
WASHINGTON, October 20.-The
motion for process in the important
/ case OF the State Of Texas against Geo.
| Peabody & Co, involving nearly half
/ a million Of dollars, now before the Su-
pFeme Court, will be heard on Friday.
! The bill gt complaint and history OF
the case have been incorrectly report
ed, and the following Summary of the
case is from the records OF the Court;
The sill charges:
isThat the rebel Military Board OF
Texas delivered three hundred Of the
unindorsed PeEan indemnity bonds 10
John NJ. SWisher 4 Go. 10 sell them
in Europe; that they employed proege
a. Co., Of Manchester, to negotiate the
sales;
SThat Droege & Co. sold one hun
NEtaA dlu lg4h -nihO va AAiN oDhNo ~
Geo. Peabody q Co., who are charged
with knowledge that by iaT tie bonds
required the Endorsement Of the sur
veyOr of Texas 10 make them negO-
| table, and that they also kneY that
! they were being used for rebel pnr-
| poses;
HThat before purchasing they under
took To inquire whether they were OF
the class Of bonds concerning which
Secretary Chase had giYep notice that
they would not be paid, but thai ~
stead of inquiring from Chase, they
detached the coupons from the bonds,
and concealed the fact that they were
EnendOIsed bonds rom the Assistant
Treasurer Of New York, who, in the
hurry Of business, paid them, and,
"Upgn this payment Peabody & ~.
advanced DFOcge & 60, money on the
one hundred and f0rtyrnipe bonds
but that Peabody d Co. aiterwaFd, be-
ing notified that the bonds would not
be paid, enjoiHed the money they had
| advanced on the Cae hundred and
forty-niGe bonds in the hand Of Droege
Il o., from Nhpm the purchase was
actually made;
"That afteFWard the Seeret4ryqf the
Treasury, Mr.. McCuilOch, paid the
one hundred and forty-nine bonds to
/ Dabpey, Morgan & Co, OF New York,
I the agents Of Peabody q Co, 50 that
Texas has never RECEIVED any money
irOm any one on payment NJ the bonds,
but the whole three hundred boHGs,
and proceeds, remain in the hands OF
Peabody & Co., Of London"
Drpege d Co., of New York, and
/ DabReg, Morgan 4 Co., of New York,
are. made parties in the defense.
The people Of Washington are still
| trembling that the much-taIked of re-
nOyql OF the capital should ever take
place, Some ofthG solid citizens here
have boen interviewing Gen, Sher-
man in regard to the matter Sher-
man says in his opinion the capital
will never be moved from Washing
tor 70 the Mississippi or any other
valley, he thinks il would take one
hundred years 20 yet 9 bill for the re-
moyal through the House sf Repre-
| sentatiyaS. one hundred years 70 get
one tbroudh the Senate, and even atter
fhe psssaee of the bill by 10th houses,
one hundred and one years would "
snent in discussing the most eligible
noint In the Mississippi Valley, to
which the capital could be removed;
WAsHrEGToE, October l9.Iohicial
documents have been received by one
of the Legation here ffQgl Spain, con-
tanning tile history Of the Siekles ne
gotiations up 10 the time Of the Wild,
] drawaI of his note rendering the gQ9d
G63ces of this Government. Siekles
hrst intsrslew was at Madrid in July,
when be communicated verbally
proposition looking towards Q settle.
mept with the Cubans on the basis 81
! their purchase of the public works
and the abolition of slavery. Early
Ia August a second interview took
/ place, at which Slyela, the Spanish
| Minister of State, after expressing his
1 pleasure Of the tender of good offices
% the part Of the United States, YER