Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-27
From WashingtOn.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.-The secretary of
the treasury will shortly discontinue the re-
ceipt of deposits of gold 1t is ascertained
that he will not, as has been proposed, offer
the five twenties at any discount from market
rates, or in other words, to public competition,
but will endeavor to expedite their conversion
as soon as possible.
The representation made in some quarters
that the public debt has reached two thousand
million dollars, is a gross exageration. On
the first day of the present month it was only
six hundred and twenty million, and is now
less than six hundred and sixty millions. This
amount includes the entire circulation and
every species of notes, and between seventy
and eighty millions debt of the late administra
ton, but excerpts claims for which no requisi-
tons have yet been made. The claims adj
usted and unadjusted cannot exceed twenty
million dollars.
Lieut.. commander Mccain has been de-
tached from the Maratanza, and ordered to
the command of the Hunchback. Acting
Lieut.. Calhoun has been detached from the
Hunchback, and ordered to the command of
the Ladona. Lieut.. commander G. S. Norton
has been ordered to the MaratanZa. Acting
master w. G. Saltonstal has been ordered to
the command of the steamer Commodore
Hull. Acting master Nathan Lewis has been
at the request Of Maj Gen. Mcdowell
court of inquiry, consisting of generals Hun
ter, Cadwaader and Garfield will meet in
this city tomorrow, to investigate the military
conduct of that gentleman.
According to an order just issued from the
war department, troops in active campaign
must be prepared to bivouac on the march,
the allowance of tents being limited. Hospi-
tai tents, being for the sick and wounded,
must not be diverted from their proper use.
With the news of the complete triumph of
the liberals in the United States of Columbia,
late New Granada, comes also the intorma-
ton through distant official sources, that Cen
Mosquera has been recognized and its minis
tiers and consuls received by the governments
of Peru, Chill, Bolivia, Ecuador, Costa Rca,
and Mexico. The ministers of France and
Great Britain have been received by Mosque
ra's government, but Mr.. Buxton, the minis
ter of the United States, has not been recog-
nized because Messrs. Paraga and Merrill the
representatives Of Columbia, now in New
York, have not yet been received by the Unit
ed States government.
There have been several "Reminiscences
during the past week on the southern side of
the Potomac, and much valuable information
obtained concerning the position Of the enc
nv. Gainesville, New Baltimore, Haymar-
ket, Thoroughfare Gap, Dumfries, Stafford
Springs, Warrenton Junction, Manassas
junction, and other places, were within their
fields of observation. Our troops had occa
sional skirmishes, and both sides lost a few
men in killed. wounded and prisoners. A
scouting party, who returned to Sigels head
quarters last night, report that the rebel Gen.
Mumford, with force of fifteen hundred
men, was at Purcellville, twelve miles west of
Leesburg, on the road to Snyder's Gap. A
large patrol of the enemy is at Leesburg,
Middleburg, and Waterford.
The regulations for procuring tax stamps
subject the people on the Pacific coast to in
convenience and delays, owing to the distance
from Washington, and remittances being re-
quired for their purchase. A telegram of
more than six hundred words has been receiv-
ed at the treasury department, upon this sub
ect, from government officers in San Fran
cisco, in which, as remedy, the request is
made that an agency for the sale of stamps be
established in that city. Satisfactory arrange
ments will doubtless be made.