New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03

the number of persons desirous that Gen. Mcclellan
sdall take Gen. Halleck's place.
THE ALMADEN QUICKSILVER MINES CASE
The opinion in the Almaden Quicksilver Mines
case is completed, and will be delivered next week.
1t is said to be in favor Of the claimants and against
the Government.
GEN. CLAYs NOMINATION..
The opposition to the confirmation OF Casslus Nj E
CLAW rs Minister to Russia purely personal, and is
said to be growing.
PAYMENT OF DISCHARGED pRIvATEs.
The Government is paying of in this city dis
charged pvates at the rate of two regmentsa week,
and Office who have thrown mp their commissions
and had them promptly accepted at the rate Of thirty
day. The officers are Of that sort that should have
never entered the service, and whom Gen. Hooker
is rapidly wedding out of it. The privates are
mostly the nne-monhs beauties who enlisted for the
bounies and took into the service neither health.
atriotism, nor honesty.
VEGETABLES FOR THE SOLDIERS.
Gen. Hooker has caused the issue to the men un-
der his command of ratons of vegetables. Onions
and potatoes are now in every camp. This is
simple fact but Of priceless worth to the Army OF
the Potomac. He has also caused ovens to be erected
in every division, and soft bread as good Sykes
& Chadwicks is in every tent on the Rappahannock.
TIE FINANCIAL SITUATION.
The Financial "Situation' of the Government
may this day be summarily presented thus:
AUTHORIZED LEGAL TENDER. -
BY act OF FI.V'WVVo'v
subsequen mt issue 1852. $50 900
300, 100 900
BY Ways and Means bill completed Feb. %. ab. ..
Contiusentiy to redeem nters.tbesIins note,, If .
isoco'COo soo'Co
s6so, ,ooO. 900
der thsr face convertible into Legal -
Tender. Apco0OJ
Tosl.................... .........f i .05O 600 0OO
MIR. cn.sRs POWER TO RnsB ovKa AND ABOVE
THE IssUg, ,oP LEGAL TENDER AND IsTEKksT'BsAKiNG
Un,old aud unenpended OF per cent bonds
authorized by act OF July. '6i abou..." s41s0m 900
Six per loan authorized this ycsr... 900
s62s 900 900
Power TO issue l.yoar Certificates Of Indebted
ness. in liquidation Of claims on Govern
;.,;; nis ,r1..S 9aiHisn .sn
JULY /. 1858.
Te1's Indemnity. |fcpa 600 interest per cent,
due Dec 81 - 30 dated August ~ 1861, prn
cpa e35c3yJ ilt.resi @ per cent due Aug 10 % three
year. 90 dated October ls6l principal $50 700. In
principal 4l2 "a G5 interest per due year from
date temporary lo.ns notes, %4l6 800 6 interest, +pe
cent dsys' notice. ser having remained deposit
80 loan. GOLD PIineE, +2 s3a SIS &C. inter
deposit 30 day temporary loans notes pnneip1L s1
of S6 ~ iasTet peI cent due ten days notice, afef
principal, s2el30 interest per ceat que July 90 osn of
l8i2 outstanding principal & 900 Interest per cent due
30; United States notes. Issue principal s25a
s ii : '4625 Il.
Whatever currency may be issued under Mr..
Chases banking scheme is TO be added to the above
sum Of $650, 900, 600 OF authorized legal tender.
Twenty millions is estimated to be the addition that
will thus be made.
Portions Of the above amount Of legaltender are,
by the terms Of the act, to be held in reserve,
aud to be issued only "cOntingenty, but their issue
is regarded rs certain.
The enormous and unprecedented monoy power
with which the Secretary of the I:-sasury is now
veEted 10 regarded with anxious interest already by
tic most thoughtful members Of Congress. The Lis.
iory Of the world furnishes no parallel to it.
arsiuxATIoN OF GEN. sIGEL.
Gen. sigel has placed his resignation In the hands
Of the President and gone home. Insuperabe diai-
oulties in bis intercourse with the Commsnder-in.
Chief are alleged the reasons for this resgnaton
which will be- regretted by every soldier In the
army. 1t ia thought in military circles here that his
,orps will be consolidated with some other.
DEATHS or SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL.
The following soldiers have died 10 the hospitals
iere since our last report;
f,,.n Wheslsr ID, VT Ckas Lamprsy. Y. ii u. Y.
lafos Hubbard. III, 10 Conn. Ihos Williams, C,t );
sitz Boon. X, ION Y. Stephen tveTstu IL Mich !
La. b. Ellsworth u, 2l Conn. yossph Peio, ItI n
lsyia G2@a. sa:.|t.a <. Y SAsy' IL s"''''n' y 'A+
Ian information relative TO deceased soldiers nsy be OBJ
.sed by addressing Capt Hsrf corner OF Eighteenth ard O
,roets Warrington.
70 the A.sOcisted Press
wnsIse1os, Monday. ,.1.rrh ?. 1863
MR.. DAWES AND NIX. P...,GOTT.
Representative Dawes says. IN the recent debate
On Mr.. Jennings Pggott application for a -eat in
the House that in what he said, or intended to say
there was nothing Personal against that gentleman
CAPT. FIsK's NORTH OVERLAND EXPEDITION.
The report Of Capt. james l.. Fish's North over
land expedition was submitted to the Heuse to-day.
1t was organized for the protection OF emgrants
over q new route from Fort Benton in Dakota
Territory, part of which was surveyed by the late