Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-26
WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
REDUCTION OF EXPENDITURES.

HENNliON VI EXPENDITURES.
~ The Secretary of the Navy has forwarded to the
treasury Department his estimate of the expendi-
t4res on account of the navy for the coming year
He proposes that the cost of maintaining the esnb
llshment shall be reduced from Sll2 900 to S23
OOSGUI9r only double the cost in 1860.
should the War Department be able to reduce its
expenditures IN the same ratio the cost of supporting
the Government for the next year-exciusiye Of in
terest on the public debt-will be brought down to
SdO GS ,vh Inc whole expenditure will be $685.
VWV1, "hlch, according to present appearances will
be quite covered by the income from internal reye-
nue. alone.
THE SOUTHERN PosrMAsrERs.
SuIs f0r the recovery of money due the Govern
by the Post Office Department At the breaking out
ment from this source was little over three hundred
and sixty thousand dollars but il is thought that the
larger portion OF 1t VIII be eventually recovered.
,, THE WHITE HOUSE.
large number of visitors were at the White House
YESTERDAY, among them Senators Cragin and Segnr
and Major Gen. Crittenden. The rebel General Dick
FAVOR was also present for the third time this wee
but tailed, as before, in obtaining an interview.
49,, PAY OF OFFICERS.
AT the request of the Quartermaster General the
pay o1 q considerable number of officers has been
stopped by order of the Pay Department until such
time rs the dehnquents render to the Quartermas-
ters Department the returns and accounts REQUIRED
by law.
PARDONS.
Another batch of pardon warrants, numbering over
one hundred, signed by the President were sent to
the state Department yesterday where they can be
obtained by the parties for whom they are intended
Of State u ''4' 7e'ie'"i'
HON. Freeman CLARKE AND Gov'R pIERpoINT.
Hon. freeman Clarke, Comptroller of the Curren-
cy las written reply to the card of Governor Pier
point in which the latter denies that he ever asserted
that 1hc people OF the South would not submit to be
taxed to pay the national debt. Mr. Clarke unoual-
hedly asserts that he did express such sentiments
and that, too in indecent, ungentlemanly language
and that he thereupon ordered him TO leave his
o1llce Mr.. Clarke supports his statement with the
affidavit of Mr., Charles D. Smith, brother of JUDGE
Smith. OF the New York Supreme Court, who was
present, ana heard the whole conversation.
- Personal.
Sir Morton Peto, Of the party of English capitalists
now on visit To TINS country. returned to Washing
ton AGAIN last evening in company with Mr. Wood,
taken rooms at the Metropolitan Hotel
THE UNITED STATES TREASURER.
Hon Francis f. Spinner, United States Treasurer
has been rendered by Hon. Preston King Collector
Gt the port of New York, the position OF auditor of
the custom house in that city Secretary McCulloch
however, declines to accept Mr. Spnners resignation
and he Will therefore continue in the discharge of his
present duties The salary attached to the office of
auditor Is S30OO-the same as the position of
treasurer.
AFFAIRS IN GEoRGEToWS
The protractcd meetings which have been in pro-
gress at the various Methodist Churches during the
past two months are growing in interest and are at
tended with success. At West Georgetown, Rev. H.
{. McDaniel, pastor, the meetings have increased
greatly IN interest and MANY conversions and acceS
Dunbarton street Church, where Rev Dr. Edwards
is pastor the meetings have been attended with sue
cess and some valuable accessons made to the Church.
At the Congress street Methodist Protestant Church.
Rev. Daniel Bowers, pastor the meetings were com
menced a week since, and from the first have been
increasing in interest. Several conversions are re-
ported and. the number increasing nightly At all
theSe Churches the pastors have been aided by inh
listers OF other denominations residing in the town.
and frequently by clergymen from Washington. Bal
tlnOre, ana the surrounding country.