The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-04-14
> FROM WASHINGTON.

Oh tue treasury nhs ueon Tor some time pro.
pairing, for tho conduct of the trade with in.
surrectionary States, were completed on Sat-
urday, and western surveyors and special
agents are to meet w. p. Mel)p, Super
vising Special Agent Of the Depai tment next
Wednesday, in Cincinnati, TO confer with him
as to local rules and restrictions, under these
regulations for granting permits sor trade with
the insurectionary country throughout the
Valley of tho Mississippi Orders by the
Secretaries Of War aud Navy have been issu.
ed, placing everything connected with this
trade in the hands Of the Treasury Department
in order to prevent the confusion and conflict
ing action heretofore embarrassing the trade :.
81 The special agents of the Treasury Depart
ment already appointed, have been empower.
cd TO act also as agents of the Department,
under the act Of March 10th, for the seizure
Of captured or abandoned rebel property; to
take possession of and account for all such
property, and orders from the War and Navy
Departments have been issued, requiring their
officers 10 turn over such property to these
special agents. The tax on every balo of cot
ton brought out by private speculators is ff-
teen dollars, not twenty an previously report
ed. Shipping permits will not. of course, be
granted until this tax is raid. The general
effect of these regulations will be to place q
more stringent guard over trade along the
border, 10 secure more revenue to the Gov
ernmeut, and TO put an end to army and navy
officers speculating in cotton aud other rebel
products. ll aE .--i .,s t,c
Parties in high official position hero say
that three weeks ago, Secretary Seward sent
out dispatch to tie British Government, an
nouncing the determination Of the Admins
tratiou to regard the sailing Of another vessel
like the Alabama from British ports, for simi.
lar purposes, as an unfriendlv act. That ie,
as cause for war. Those familiar with the
correspondence touchiBg the sailing of the
Alabama, just published in the English Blue
Book, and more recent correspondence 10 re.
gard to other vessels now building in Eng.
land, say that it is conducted on Earl Russelrs
side with acrimony. and in language indicat.
Government to the laws, as providing the
sole remedy for alleged grievances. 1t is
thought here that our future course In the
matter d,pends largely on the result of Gen.
Hunters South Carolina campaign. 1t con.
not be denied, however, that danger of most
serious complications with England is thought
by some of our leading men to be daily in
oreasing. 2 tuJ a
Gov. Ramsay returned from visit to the
lst Minnesst, Regiment, yesterday, and
found it and the whole army In excellent
health aud condition.
Ex-Assistant Secretary of War Wolcott,
formerly Attorney General Of Ohio, and broth.
or 10 law to Secretary Stanton, died at mid
night last night at Akron, Ohio.
The Committee on the conduct of the
War has finished its work, and most of the
members return home Monday or Tuesday,
Advance copies Of their report were mailed to
leading Western journals last Friday.
Gen. Hooker bad invited the Committee to
visit his army, aud sout up boat for them.
They intended to 60 down, but could not get
off at the appointed time, and finally the trip
was abandoned.
The 7lst Indiana regiment, paroled last
December, has been exchanged at last.
A leading Indian chief, Yellow WOLF OF
an Iowa tribe from Colorado, here at the head
Of the Indian delegation, died at one Of our
hotels last night, of pneumonia, and will be
buried to-day in the Congressional cemetery.
He was their principal spokesman at the lste
interview with the President. His last advice
to bis companion chiefs was to remain at peace
with the whites.
1t is significant indication of the regard
the Government has for the achievement of
the black brigade, that District Attorney
for the Northerp District Of Florida is just
appointed, Cubree p. Chamberlain gets it..
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that the agents of a corporation which
has been licensed to sell lottery tickets at its
place Of business, who nre employed to sell
tickets in various parts of the StIte, are also
required severally to take cut licensss un-
der Act 81 Of section o.. The decision ID
embodied in letter to Richard Johnson Of
st. Louis.
o. McLaren Of Burlington, Iowa, has been
appointed pension surgeon,
1t is understood that the holders of the new
Treasury notes authorized by the last Con.
gress, 10 the extent Of S400, ,O00, 900, aud foI
the engraving Of which Mr.. Chase has just
advertised, are to have the option OF using
them as legal tender, or Of exchanging them
as legal tenders at the Sub-Treasuriss. The
interest on the notes will probably be 5 pei
cent, and when money is worth only pei
cent. they will be used for money, and wher
less than per cent. they will be boarded fol
the interest.