, 1869-07-02
LATEST EASTERN NEWS.
Dates to June %.
COMPILED FROM THE oREGoSIAN.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Washington, June 54-The President to-
day signed the appointment of J H.. Williams
as agent of the United States, under the
convention at Mexico. John Cochraue is
appointed Collector of Internal Revenue, for
the Sixteenth District of New York.
Col Whitney, Chief Treasury Detective,
assisted by John Clarnor, has made arrests in
Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York, and
several Western States, of counterfeiters and
counterfeit money, plates, presses, dies and
other material. About q dozen men have
been arrested during the last six weeks. In
Indiana, gang was arrested at Fort Wayne,
few days ago, while engaged in making
money, 100000 counterfeit notes and %
cents currency were seized, with twelve sets
of steel plates, fifty sets of dies, presses, etc.
Solicitor Banfeld has determined to sup
port Col. Whitley to the fullest extent of law,
and break up those gangs of counterfeiters
whose operations ramify all over the coun-
try. Important arrests and seizures will be
made and given to the public in few days,
which will show the completely of expert
counterfeiters equal to any thing ever before
heard of in this or any other country. The
% cent note counterfeit just captured, is
finished imitation. A large amount have
been circulated by gang.
The arrest of Government officer in west
ern New York, who was found to be in COM
plicity with Sims friends expended $4,000
to obtain his pardon several years ago
The President has decided that the re-
striction preventing army officers from holding
civil Office, does not apply to the retired list.
This decision enables Gen. Sickles to accept
the Spanish Mission, he relinquishihg army
pay during the occupancy of this mission, but
to be continued on the army register. He
will leave for Madrid about the 18th of July.
Hale will await his arrival there. There is
no probability that Perry will be reappointed
Secretary of Legation.
The President will, on the 10th of July,
after the Virginia election, order an election
in Mississippi for the 18th of September,
and in Texas for the last of September or
first of October.
William Smithson, an ex banker, has
brought suit against Secretary Stanton for
false Imprisonment. having been kept in Fort
lafayette for month in 1868 and then re>
leased, there being no grounds for his deten-
ticn. He was afterwards re arrested and
tried as a spy by court martial AID senten-
ced to five years in the Albany panitentiary,
where he remaiGed year and was released
BY order of President Lincoln. His property
meanwhile was seized and disposed of, and
his family turned out of doors. He alleges
that letters used for his conviction were
forgeries, and denies the right of Congress to
pass indemnities as shielding officers until the
acts in question are decided
The President has approved the finding of
the military commission which recently sat
in Austin, Texas, and which tried and con-
victed James Weaver,a citizen, for the muir.
der of Anthony Knowles, and directed that
in accordance with the sentance he be hang
ed September 28th. This will be the first
execution under the reconstruction laws.
There are great efforts among the Gnan>
ciers to induce the Secretary of the Treasury
to change his policy and stop selling gold,
aud enlarge the currency balance. Several
banks and combinations of large dealers in
money are locking up greenbacks to compel
the Secretary to change. The money now
locked up is variously estimated at from ten
to fifteen millions, but the ammount is not
known exactly. The movement is being
kept secret, to take the appearance of strin
gency from natural cause.
Yesterday the United States Grand Jury
found bills of indictment against Jose Nor
aIes, Lewis & Basson, Nora Fesser, Alvarez,
Col. RYAN, for fitting out military expet
ditiou which left about May LIST for Cuba, In
violation of the neutrality laws. The same