The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-01
WASHINGTON.
lntenal Revenue Receipts Yesterday Nearly
Two and a Half Million Dollars.
Th, Reputed Attempts to Kidna p
George N. sacders.
"a
Disosing Of tho Surplus Hospital Build
ings Around Washington.
&o. &C. &c
WASHINGTON, August 81, 1906.

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WASHINGTON, August 81, 1895
FINANCIAL MATTERS.
IN receipts n the Internal Revenue Bureau to-day
are oven at $24sl ll5. The gross receipts for the
mont Of August foot up $34, 087, $780,
Tn, Treasury disbursements to the army during the
st at Of this month heavy but for the last ten
or twelve days they have been quite light
Thre has recently been large reduction Of old GER
H6caes Of indebtedness The new ones issued are not
more than dollar in four compared with those
'deeuDd.
;DIsPssING OF THE SURPLUS HOSPITAL BUILDINGS.
The temporary frame hospitals and other buildings.
ocatd in this city and vicinity, which cost the govern
men 10 the aggregate about million and half dollars
are new being sod the occasion for their use having
passed away with the limitation Of the war. The
iumba brings about two.thirds Of its original cost,
and inds ready purchasers It is probable that
only one Of the hospalsthe Harwood-will be retained
at eat for several months there not more than
If Is many five hundred sick disabled soldiers re-
naming here requiring medical HARDWOOD Hospital
ds in abeautfu and healthy location, about two miles
from Washington formerly the country seat of
Corcoran the banker who left this city for Europe at
the of the rebellion, and has not yet
returned This site is urged by influential gentlemen
admirably suited for the asylum for disabled soldiers
and seamen charter to establish which granted by
the hte Congress- the corporators numbering one hun
dred among them being the chief executive officers Of
the government Lieutenant General Grant, Vice Admit
raj Faragut and other distinguished army and navy
officers
HE IRON-CLAD DICTATOR.
The recent passage Of the Dictator from New York to
Philadelphia officially reported to have been entirely
M heat If he iour
Coaming of the boilers the journey The total time
the engines were in operation was thirty hours and
thirty minutes total revolutions Of the screw fifty
six thousand three hundred and seven average revolu
per minute thirty and eight total coal con-
stunned while under weigh one hundred and nineteen
'tons hundred and forty pounds average consump
ton Of coal per hour eight thousand seven hundred and
sixty pounds The Dictator has not been on the dock
flor year. and must be somewhat foul She has never
shad FIRE in set of her furnaces. 1t can also be
said Of her that she has never been towed, has
always moved W it'll her own steam, has never met with
any accident from collision has always escaped ground
ing waters, and in years service there has
not been man hurt board of her. II the govern
men.inends despatchng an clad to San Francisco
as reported the Dictator would to be the proper
selection The bare report of such intention has
created lively contention for the honor An enthusi
astic officer declares he would rather be designated for
that service than to receive five years pay
APPLICATION OF RICHMOND BANK FOR MONEY IN
POSSESSION OF THE FREEDMENs BUREAU.
Mr. Mcfarland President OF the Farmers Bank Of
Virginia was attempting to gain an audience OF the
President to-day in relation to sum Of specie, stated
at nearly hundred thousand dollars, now in posses
sion Of the rreedmen's Bureau which he claims to be
4he lawful property Of the bank II seems the money
was scot to some locality in Georgia for preserva
tn he
Richmond but was found and taken possession of by
this bureau as abandoned conscatablc property The
bank denies that IL was either and is endeavorng to re-
gain possession.
THE RBPORrED ATTEMPTS TO KIDNAP GEORGE N.
SANDERS.
II has boen represented that attempts have been made
20 abduct George Sanders from Canada and that these
attempts wore melted by the Presidents proclamation
offering reward for his arrest The only proclamation
on the subject which has been issued is that Of the Ast
OF May last and that promises the rewards only upon
the condition Of the apprehension Of Sanders within the
limits Of the United States
THE REPoRrED ORGANIZATION OF PARDON BU-
REAU.
Comptroller Wilson, Of the Treasury, is unfortunate in
having indscreet friends who busy themselves in cir
uatng reports that he Is to be made chief OF pardon
bureau which 10 be specially organized as an execu-
tive bureau the White House Their zeal is well in
tended but they lack the dscernmen TO that such
attempts getting up outside pressure for that pur-
pose IL persevered in will certainly defeat the object
There no authority for creating such bureau and the
President not supposed to disregard the law Beyond
this nothing has publicly transpred TO indicate that Mr.
johnson contemplates or desires its establishment It
is TO be hoped such ladvised friends will spare Mr.
Wilson further annoyance and modification on the sub
ect The HERALD exposed the Amir week ago, but it
has been subsequently reiterated
KNIGHT TEMPLARs.
Tho Columbia Commandery No. Knight Templars, OF
this CITY, leave TO- morrow night for Columbus, Ohio TO
attend the trieunial session of the Grand Encampment
of that order which to in that city ON the
nrst OF the coming week.
SURGEON FOR THE PENSION BUREAU.
j. W. Smith, Of Marysvle, Ohio, has been appointed
an examining surgeon by the Pension Bureau
RECRUITING FOR THE REGULAR ARMY.
Returns received ut the Provost Marshal Generals
oAlce show increased activity in recruiting for the
regular army Regiments which few months ago NUN
bored only two and three hundred .mcn now number
Rve six and seven hundred Many volunteers who have
spent short time home among their friends again
entering the military service of the United States.
MANUFACTURES OF COTTON GOODS IN THE MIDDLE
STATES.
The manufacture Of cotton goods in the middle sate
s thus exhibited by the last census and is shown to b.
about eight millions Of dollars in excess Of the aggregate
value OF the wooen product for that secton:-Annua
valuo Of manufactures $24 $50; number of estab
shments 40; number Of employees, II, 2o2 males AM
1868 females cost Of labor S5,o52s cost Of mate
rial consumed Sls, so7, 0O7 capital invested $l7l4
ITO
CENTRAL LAND OFFICE AFFAIRS.
The General Land once has prepared forms Of record
and patents for the sale Of the trust lands in Nebraska
the Sac and Fox Missouri and Iowa Indian tribes an
also forms Of allotment the naturazcd Pottawoamc
for lands In Kansas under treaty Of November 49, 1851
As soon as the printed blanks are received at the Gene
raj Land Office the patents will be issued forthwith an
An aall.z.