The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-05
EDITION
VERY LATEST NEWS.
TEEIR FORCES FORM A JUNCTION.
sEcEsH GOLD RUMoRs.
special Uesputchcs to Evening Tslograph.
WAnnNoror, October Q

wAHaNoTop, October 8.
sheridan forms IA Junction with Butler.
Il was rumored a. City Point yesterday morn
ing that sheridan Cavalry had formed a junction with
Buuer's Cayslry.
The putch Gap Canal.
The i utch Gap Canal Is rapidly approaching
completion Every confidence prevails among troops
ana success is certain
Relieved from Duty.
Major o. d. Greene has been relieved from
duty Chofof stan General Roseeran'. Colonel John
V. Dubois succeeds him.
ApPOintment.
Licutcnant-Colonel 4. W. Smith, A. A. g., has
been by General Butler Assistant Adiuant-
General fhe Department Of Virginia North Carolina.
Demand for Substitutes.
Substitutes are In great demand here Since
the draft the prices for substitutes have to eight
and hundred dollars, and they that
Politics la Indiana.
Adyices from Indiana speak of a change in
public feeling, N count tho State for Lincoln.
Pay Of Cooks.
BY order of the Secretary of War, the pay and
sIoances white female cooks IN general hosptals viii
H,iesfsr be sky cents per day and one ration
Secession Gold RumOrs,
In the absence of official dispatches, the usual
have been started by gold Spectators their
allies the secesh. II Is sufficient to that the boat from
City Point arriving TINS morning Drought no unavOrabc
intelligence and the alluded TO are got up sooy to
influence tie market. The only other method commun
cation Is the telegraph No person connected with the
Government knows believes anything ofil fortune and
any person would wholly discredt such combina
tion Of disasters,
Public Lands.
On the Sd instant certified transcripts of lists
lsnds amounting to 2O24I7GO acres enurirg to the
State Minnesota under the grant Of I'd Of March, 1857
aid IN the construction ofthe Southern Minnesota the
Minneapolis, and Cedar Valley ana the wons, ST. Peter,
and Missouri River Railroads. were transmitted by the
General Land ONCE 10 The Governor Of that State.
National Banks,
The following National Banks have been
establ he'd The First Of Providence, Pa, capital,
s5JCOOi Isaac Dean, President; Warren ]. Clarke,
Cashier. Tie Eighth Of Philadelphia; Jacob Eaylor Presi
dent Robert N Williams, Cashier capital, s275OOo The
First Of Midiletown, New York William Evans, Jr Pres-
dent; d. DoTanICashieri capital, slOoOOO The Cont
mental Of Bost Oliver Dtson, Presidents James Swan
Cashier; capital, s3O0,OOO.
The Increase of the Public Debt.
An elaborate series of investigations into the
increase Of public debt during the Just been com
pleted by DR. Elder Of the Treasury Department The
results show that the mean increase of the public debt
during thirty mine months, since July, 1861, is, as
near as may be, million and half OF dollars per
diem during the last two months this period The
mean increase million three hundred thou
sand dollars Subsequent 10 that H. stands mean
Of million nine hundred thousand dollars excep
tional days showed maximum OF three millions and a
minimum of million dollars but the mean for the
time has been as above aated-one million 1--WE hundred
thousand per day This statement entirely dlsposes OF
the howl constantly made by COpperheads upon vast
increase Of the public debt Their documents, Journals
and banners ring ges on that subject stating
that the increase of the public have averaged AZ
least three million dollars per day since the
ment Of the Rebellion.