New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-02
FROM wAsaiNAYon.
Special Dispatch to tia N. z. T,ibsas.
WASHINGTON, Seps, I. iee<

| OUR PUBEnj vssjr.
The following is a correc, statement of the pub
lie debt a. appears from the tocks, Treasures re-
turns and requisi;ions or the Treasury Department
on the 3)th OF August Debt bearing interest In
coin, $sS9s9o, i9l 80; interest, $53,N2,l7g 30.
Debt bearing interest in lawful money, $lGs 100,
00i 81; interest, $A, 1884, i2 81. Debt on which
interest has ceased, 1857, 40 90; debt bearing
10 interest, $5l9. III ,267 30. Total amour, out
standing, $iS7s, 565, 233 80. Total interest $77,-
,l22 ~. The unpaid acquisitions amount
to $sS.7e5OOo, while tho smount in the Treas
Iury subject to draft, is over seventeen mil
lous The amount of fractional currency in circu-
lstion Ia nearly twcn,y-four and half millions.
The Navy Department hes ordered an invesiga-
ton into the charge that the Pontoosac remained
forty-eight hours in the harbor at Eastpon.
PROP. HOssBFIELD's RATION.
The board Of officers appointed by tho Secretary
Of War to examine Prof. Horsefeld army marching
ration have made their report TO the War Depart
ment. They have recommended trial Of it to DO
made, BY one or two regiments in the field, and, II
found to answer all requirements to be be adopted
PUBLIC REPOSITORIES.
Tho Worcester National Bank, Of Worcester,
Mass, and the First National Bank Of Grecpport,
New-York, have been designated repositories Of
public money.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
The Indian Bureau estimates tho numbers Of the
Indians already engaged in the war on tho plains at
about nineteen thousand. Dispatches received to-
day state that murders continue to multiply, and
that the Indians are growing stronger every day,
owign TO tho inadequacy OF the military force In
that region.
Many tribes who, from fear, at 6rstrefuscd TO Join
in tho war, have taken up the tomahawk to ettcr-
inmate the whites in Kansas. Approximations arc
beginning to be felt for the safety OF Fort Koarney
A large body Of savsgcs arc now threatening that
almost isolated post
TIIB Ssw sURGROy-GEEgRAL.
Medical IuSpector-Gencral Joseph X. Barnes
who, since the arrest Of Or. Hammond, has been
Acting Snrgcon-Gcneral, to-day received his COM
mission as Surgeon General, to date August I'd.
DISTRICT oP NORTH CAROLINA.
Gen. Palmer, In general orders, defines the lines
of sctual occupsuon of thc militsfy forces Of the
United States in the District OF North Carolina.
Those lines arc announced 20 be as follows
To include all the Eastern part OF Cartaret comfy
nom hne five miles Wet II che Railroad leading nom
Newbern TO Morehead City all Of the county Of Craven
IN ing Scotia oftho Neuse kNcr and East VI the same
line FIVE NILES West of sad Rairoad, and extending
around o. a point eight les from Newbern. mp the
Ncusc River; mrch % tue counties OF CrhFen ana
Washington as extends five miles INTO the interior
North 81 tie Neuse Iave md N.st q PaB.ieo SOUND
WHoe's Io.nt. n EesuiIi county Indian lsi1nu, ~
pGmico Xiv much Il irro county ~ mes hss' 1i
AhgatO. RIVER Roanoke lsa1d. the shores ana hianus
south of the North se OF AlDe'anre sound ana Feet
and South of Panlico and CuT Sounds around 10 Cope
Lookout; also 10 ineluGS snaesieords Banks END 50
much Of DoTdens rnks Les eight miles wosI OF rIr
Macon, together with such military SITES as ma! DO
pf cay under lac protection o! TIE United states
tayv Ia the Sounds of The AlDemsre anC fuulico ana
the Chowou PsmiicO ard NeUSe Rivera all 10 the
STATE Of North Carolina.
-. REVENUE STAMPS.
Persons holding revenue stamps for which they
have no use can have them exchanged at the In
ternai Revenue Bureau, At . discount OF one per
cent The following comrnifsiohs ON tho purchase
of Internal Revenue Stamps, payable an stamps,
are now allowed: On purchases Of $50 or more, 2
per centum; on purchases OF 500 or more, per
coutum; on purchases Of $50 or more, Per
eeutlm; Oh the purchase Of 1900 or more, 3 Per
centum.
Nv tho I5sd section of the excise law, all stamps
deno,ing duties under Schedule u may DO used H.
Unfortunately.
VETERAN RESERVES.
The orders constituting Boards of Inspection IN
the loyal states to inspect all enlisted men La
the Military Hospitals tsA not be interpreted 10 IN
cluds men now in the Veteran Reserve Corps; but
only the men Of regiments who are now ut Tor REID
eerycc OF those who will eventually be TT Tor held
service, and who are now tit for duty in iortihct'-
fions.
FEMALE NURSES.
The Acting surgcon-G onoral has revoked his cir
eular increasing the Ty of female nurses In General
Hospitals. as tie Act Of Congress Of Aug. ., looi,
fixes the pay Of female nurses at forty cents Day
and ono ration in kind. or by communication, In he'
of all Condiments except transportation or IN KIND
Females still receive sixty cents dsy and one
ration.
DEATHS OF SOLDIERS.
Tire following deaths Of soldiers are reported:
i rohn p Fess,ayo TIN Reuben Taylor q, stt ~ T. =
James Ldyngton b, GOth D. sylvester ebTo y 10 ~ ~
Alonzo Hei.aa < fh Mich. john = sori u, Ia Aio ~, ~.
itrr,y srrek~ 1915. ~ Yseriuei Nrenisu ., 2Dh Me-
Geo, - D. Frat 3uh o. y. Oh. D'1hao. IS iifh y = a
Daniel Rodsors E.le N.IiAAL c.snzo W. Hodse 9,p
Vim Bsyer 20 wa. Fhoo.is ". coleT - lfs o.
To tLe Associated Press. - go.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 81. le54.
18TH OHIO VOLUNTEERS.
The 18th Ohio Regiment, Col Moore, while 2"