Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-10-13
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Correspondence Of he Rtchmotd Enquv.r.
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WAsHIsGToN, Ostober 9, lsoi.
ms government stock ID still cdming in for re.
de'np'ion and furnishing a specie fGr our business
'nu commercial n-n every wh-re. Today, the sEug
''.'e SUN oil ons hundred and sixty thousand was
eeVed oy Secretary Cobb and csshed ty sSo4eck on
'he Assistant treasurer Il, New York. Ete payment
oy the Treasury Department ior two days Sl,h auci
3Oh September, last week reduced the surplu- iund
on hand Sl25 ,65 81, or, in other words threw that
amount into circulation in two days The Prrs.,
every where, has given Secretary Cobb ersSn credit
Tor his exertons 10 afford reet rs far was ppssibe
under the laws of the land. y p
The Secretary of War has also in con,empla,Svs
measure OF relief, whioh will prove grea, blessing.
Il carried out He called to-day, in company With
Cspt Meigs, 10 See Mr.. Buchanan, and consult with
him on the policy and proprisy OF expendng large
amount Of the appropriation for ths Washngion
Aqueduct, by the employment OF thousand or tw"
OF laoorers who may be thrown out OF employment
by the financial embarras. ments which distress
the country. The government has the money and II
hss been legally appropriated and Capt. Meigs, who
has charge OF this great national work is anxious {"
afford this relief 10 the aboring cs.aes aud at tho
same time put in circulation large amount Of coin
have not heard of the result Of the conference, but
doubt not that every laboring man who spphes 10
Captain Meigs for work will get 1t. don't care from
what quarter of the country he may hail.
was assured today, by a gentleman sufficiently
high in power 10 have a personal knowledge OF All
the scts, that correct in my remarks about the
contemplated change in the Presidents Cabinet.
though he wondered how it could have reached MY
ears. He ssys have anticipated the time little II;
which it is contemplated TO make the change.
Some shsllow.paed individual in this latitude has
given very different construction TO portion ot
the language used IN my iast letter, To that when
designed il should bear. No man know. or spprecl
ates the moral worth and social virtues Of Mr. jane
Erskine Stewart more than Governor Floyd, an1
A. h.,laf
that distinguished tunctlonsry. My object was only
10 arrest the attention ot Mr.. Stewards friends and
induce them TO place him in better s,ustom.
have no idea he has ever sought any position what
ever, under the present Administration. but that
no rsasOn why his claims should be overlooked.
Great exception too. understand, was taken to my
applying the name OF Botany Bay" 10 the Pension
Office. On one occasion John Randolph WAS intro
duced To member from kentucky-"Ah. ssh
Mr. Randolph, from Kentucky, sir the Botany
Bay of Virginia" OF course the gentleman was ~
diguan and demanded his meaning. q" mean, -ir,
colony that has lar outstrpped the mother country
But this was not my meaning. lhe Pension oni'e
acquired the name in consequence ot the frequent
custom of transferring Clerks 10 that Bureau ust be"
fore disseminating their services altogether. Cl-rh
transferred to the Pension office, may take for grant
ed that hs has short official life before him. ID"
captstiOn soon follows. There, however IL no "urP-
of Clerks in any branch OF Government employm"uf
possessing more Intelligence or greater amount cd
moral virtue than the gentlemen ot the Pension office
the larger number of whom am proud to rec"s"'s"
ss my warm personal friends deem it due to them
and to myself, to say thus much as the Language Oi
my last letter had been tortured into ali attack up"u
the personal OF the Pension office
Gen. WIN. H. Richardson has been enjoying h'n
self al the National Capital for day or two bat
leaves this morning for Richmond.
The Commissioner of the General Land Office i 90"
lecting a vast amount of interesting ,tHa for hs IN
annual report. Among other items find the toll"wln
| statement OF the swampand operations, which vii
| g,f.
that under the Swamp Land Acts of 1879 aud l>'l,
there would be few hundred thousand worthIrr-
acres of over flowed nnd4 passed TO the several Sair-
named-but how they must open their eyes at III"
figures in this statement
STATEMENT EXmBITiSG TIE QUANTITY or LNND So
LEcrED FOR THE SEVERAL STATES. ASD TuE ANur -
APPROVED TO THEM USUER THE Acts or '"N"HESS, ~
PROVED MARCH =, l-i9, AND SEPTEMBER -, i -