Advices from Toronto state that a decision has been made in a case before the Courts there, which involves many points of international law arising out of the war. The privateer Florida captured the United States mail steamer Electric Spark, and, among other articles secured, over $10,000 worth of postage stamps, which were sold to private parties in Liverpool, and shipped to Canada with the idea of getting them into this country for sale. Here our Government obtained knowledge of the transaction and obtained an injunction to prevent the sale. The owners of the stamps petitioned to the Court of Chancery in Toronto to dissolve the injunction and dismiss the case. Solicitor WARE, of the Post-office Department, was sent to Canada for the purpose of taking charge of the case, and succeeded in obtaining a decision in our favor, the Court refusing the prayer of the petitioners. An order was made that the United States should present testimony in the case, and an agreement was made to take depositions in New-York on the 6th prox., and in Washington and London simultaneously very soon thereafter. Our Government is preparing to bring up the whole subject of privateering in connection with this case, and, together with the Confederate captures, it is probable that the whole affair will be eventually carried to the House of Lords. The Toronto lawyers engaged in it despair of a final decision.

    From letters received at the Office of Indian Affairs, from agents at [sic] Wynkoop and Leavenworth, dated Fort Larned, 15th inst., information is given that a council was held by Gen. HANCOCK, near the fort, with some of the chiefs of the Cheyenne tribe, at which it is understood they expressed themselves in a friendly manner. Gen. HANCOCK marched to Fort Dodge on the 13th inst., and up the Pawnee Fork, in the direction of a camp or village of about 300 lodges of Cheyennes and Sioux. The approach of the command caused great anxiety among the squaws and children; and when the military had advanced and halted within a mile of the Indians, it was found that the women and children had left the lodges--the warriors, one hundred or more, armed and apparently ready for a fight, remaining. Gen. HANCOCK stated to the chiefs that no harm was intended, and sent two of them after those who had fled. They returned, however, with the information that they had scattered and could not be found. Meanwhile the warriors began to leave, the village was surrounded by the cavalry, and the lodges were found to have been left, with their contents remaining in them. There also remained an old Sioux and a girl, about eight years of age, who was supposed by some of the party to be an Indian, and by others to be a white, or partly so. It was evident that she was neither a Sioux nor a Cheyenne, and had been badly outraged. Gen. CUSTER was sent in pursuit of the fleeing Indians. The fear is expressed that a general war will follow.

Source:

Unknown, "Washington. Affairs at the National Capital, Council With the Cheyenne Indians," New York Times, Thursday, 25 April 1867, p. 4.