The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-12-06
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.
Especial to New York Tribunel
The payment of the January coupons will
be anticipated, owing to large accumulation
of coin in the Treasury.
Disabled soldiers in the various Depart
ments of Government will petition Congress
TO allow them the same bounties paid others
of that class not in Government employ.
Quite sensation was created in Washing
ton yesterday by report of the prevalence of
yellow fever on board the Stonewall. She
has been towed into the stream, and is being
thoroughly cleaned, preparatory to the admis-
sion of visitors.
The Commissioner of Customs is concern
ed from the character Of the reports which
he is daily receiving from the Canadian from
tier, that his action In employing female de-
tectives there was judicious, and will be of
great benefit in the exposure and arrest Of
female smugglers who have recently been SO
extensively engaged in the contraband trade
between Canada aud the United States. Not
one female smugger now crosses the line
where twenty crossed before, and merchants
along the border suspected Of having former
ly been engaged in the contraband trade are
closing their stores and selling out
Another smuggling dodge has just been
detected. An unusual number of collins
have been brought across the line of late for
interment on the American side. Last week
the United States revenue officers insisted
upon seeing the corpse aiter The coffin was
landed, against the earnest protest of the
stricken relatives, when. instead Of defunct
body, the coffin was found filled with costly
silks.
Two per cent. of all the fractional carrency
received AT the Treasury is counterfeit. 1t
comes to the Department from bankers and
others deemed experts in Judging money !;
and two per cent thrown out by the detection
of such portions gives some idea of the ex
tent OF this kind Of counterfeiting.
The Supreme Court met at II o clock to-
day all the Judges being present They
Proceeded il {. hody 10 the White House.
and, after paying their respects TO the Presi-
dent, adjourned until tomorrow. when they
will enter upon the regular business Of the
term.
4. c. Duraux. Vice President and Gene
raj Manager of the Interior Pacific Railroad,
is now III Washington, making arrangements
for the examination and acceptance by Gov
ernment Commissioners Of the first forty
miles Of the main line West Of the Missouri
river since the decision of the President ap-
proving the amended location of the line.
The work has progressed very rapidly of
late.
The Times Washington special contains the
following:
!. motion has teen fled in the United
States Supreme Court by A. II. Garland. of
Arkansas. TO be permitted to practice in the
Courts without taking the oath as prescribed
by acts of Congress Of July ID, 1862, and
January oath, 1865. The motion Will proba-
bly, be argued Wednesday.
Directly after the adjournment of the Su-
preme Court of the United States yesterday.
a meeting of the members Of the Bar of that
Court was convened. for the purpose Of pay
ing proper respect TO the memory Of tie lata
Judeo CatrGn, who died since the adjourn
ment of Court last spring. Judge Black, for
merly Attorney General, presided. and elo-
quent speeches were made by Hon. Caleb
Cushing, Hon. Montgomery Blair and others.
A committee was appointed to draft resolu-
tions expressing the sense of the meeting.
The resolutions were prepared and adopted
and the committee directed to present copy
thereof to the court to-day. to be spread upon
the journal.