The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-23
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS.
Claims Against the Government,
SPEECH BY -SEC'Y SEWARD.
Strange and Startling Dis
covery at Nashville.
President Johnson to Gov. Holden.
Freedmen in North Carolina-K. W.T..
Hunter The Cholera nt southa,np-
New YORK. October u.

A medical officer writes from Calves
ton, Texas, on the 30th ult., that ther
are not more than ten INDECENT negroe
in that vicinity receiving aid from tn
government, and it is his impression tina
the negroes will require little help, a
the wages they are earning are ampl!
sufficient for their wants, The write
had not yet made any observations il
the interior, but from all accounts from
there it appears that the freedmen ar,
getting along equally we'll in the uppel
country.
The expenditures of the Navy Depart
ment for the year ending June 30th, 1865
amounted to one hundred and twelv,
millions of dollars. The Secretary esti
mates the expense of the current year al
S23,OOO,OpQ Commissioner Orton ha.
not formally resigned his position. The
Secretary of the Treasury has fully deci
ded to appoint the present Assistant
Commissioner, +. A. Rollins, his success
or. This announcement may be consid
cred official, and is made thus carly tC
forestall sccres Of applications that
would otherwise flow ia,
The Herald's special from Washington
the Goth, says the Secretary of the Treas
ury has decided to Issue the gold notes
for New York use in the denominations
of 5000, ii 800, 500, and 800 Tie $1,000
$50 bonds are now ready and being is.
sued from the Registers Office. Bonds
Of the other denominations will be ready
before the end of the month.
A special to the EeTald from Washing.
ton the S0th, says: The Secretary of the
Treasury has decided to issue the gold
notes,
Governor Crops, of Michigan, left here
last night. Besides his interview with
Secretary of War yesterday, he also call
ed upon Secretary McCulloch, and urged
the satisfaction Of the State claim against
the government for the equipment of its
troops, He was told that no claims OF
this character had yet been settled save
that presented by Massachusetts,, which
had been made theeXcepton in this regard
because of the persistent and annoying
| opportunities of Gov. Andrew. Except
this instance of forced partiality, no
State had been paid its account against
the War Department, upon this score,
| though il was intimated that it bad been
| partly determined to liquidate such
claims by deducting from their amounts
the respective assessments of the States
under the direct tax. Under this ruling
Gov. Crops was made to see that Michi-
gan which brings a debit Of two hun
dred and fifteen thousand dollars, and is
required TO raise by direct tax five hun
dred thousand dollars, would have a
balance of nearly three hundred thou
sand dollars on the wrong aide Of his
ledger
Secretary Seward yesterday delivered
an address to the citizens of Auburn
After congratulating the country upon
the return Of peace, he referred 10 An
drew Johnson, saying that in the open
| ins of the rebellion it was necessary that
popular leader should arise in behalf
of the country A man from hesitating
border State, stakeholder III practice,
though nat in principle, and yet in prin-
ciple and association Democrat, An
drew Johnson, with the consent Of the
whole American people, assumed the
great responsibility, President Lincoln
announced that slavery should be treat
ed as public enemy. Andrew johnson
endorsed the announcement. The at
tempted revolution eliminated in our
national banner being successfully re-
planted in Tennessee. From that time,
though 1t was necessary to prosecute the
war with such energies as human nature
had never before exerted, it was equally
needful to prosecute the benificsnt work
of restoring the Union. The abolition
Of slavery was thenceforth equally an el.
ement of persistent war and ofreturn-
ing peace. Andrew Johnson was fifty
appointed the first Of tho provisional
Governorn for the prosecution of this
double and desired purpose of war and
peace, and was subsequently, elected
Vice President, and in the end constitu.
tionally inaugurated Presidents of the
United States,
We are continually having debates
concerning the origin and authority oI
the plan of restoration. New converts
North and South call it the President's
plan all speak of it as if it were new
and recent development in the country
We now see that It is not specially An
drew Johnson's plan or even a pew plan
in any respect. 1t is the plan which alb
ruptly yet distinctly offered itself to the
last administration at the moment when
the work Of restoration was to begin
It is asserted that the insurrection State:
shall accept the plan. This is what
said to Mr.. Adams then. In the sense in
which the word subjugation was used by
our enemies, it was not the expectation
or purpose of this Government that the
Southern States should be subjugateC
but that by the plan adopted they woult
be brought to volunteer return to theil
allegiance. The plan therefore recog
nizS not their destruction but their &C
tive existence. The absolute existenc,
of the States which constitute the repub
, lie are the most palpable of all OF TIT
fact with which the American Statesman
has to deal. He spoke Of the American
Union as assystem to which the State
were attached as limbs and said it
: limb is broken off it must be restored t
: soundness before due constitutions
3 health can be brought back to the who,
: system If limb offend us we can GU
! it off and cast it away, but by doing 5
, we would be doing whatnations less wis
! than ourselves have done, that have sui
; mitted unnecessarily to alnputation an
}. given up national portion of thei
! strength to save themselves from apprt
). hended destruction.
8 He argued that the reconciliatio
= adopted was the most wise course to pul
Q sue. The plan, he said, gives MS q grea
national advance in that progress of mi
ral and political elevation which is mo-