Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-22
Reported expressly for the Daily Times.
lgneniOlls Thieves at Nash.
vile.
ISSUE OF GOLD NOTES.
Acquittal of q Man charged with
Murder.
Speech Of Sec. Seward.
&C., &C., &C., &c.

| NEW YORK, Oct. 2L-The World has a dis
patch from Nashville, dated yesterday which
says that for the past few days a large number
of thieves have been depredating around the
city, every effort to catch them having been mn
availing till lately. 1t has been ascertained
that there are five different caves under the
city which are occupied by thieves, burglars
ann counterfeiters. The McNairy vault in the
grave yard has been put under guard, and men
set to work to effect an entrance, who. at eyerv
few inches, find evidences ofrecent occupancy.
THIS is the same cave that Murrell and his
gang occupied, when engaged in running off
negroes and horses. The affair has been kent
secret, but it leaked out in spite of the mill.
itary. year ago it was reported that the Nc
Marry tomb was used as a place for storing
stolen goods. 1t is also reported that there
is large lake covering five acres and is very
deep directly under the city. A man swears
to having explored the entire cavern from one
end to the other. A locksm.h gives it as his
opinion that the lock at the 4cNary tomb has
been used recently.
The entrance tc the cavern is at the foot of
Summer street. The military are determined
to find the outlet. The entrance looks like
fssure in the rock.
The discovery originated from the fact that
quite number ofmurders have been commit
ted in that vicinity, which Ted 10 un investga-
ton disclosing the above facts
Special to the Herald dated Washington,
20, says: The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided to issu the gold notes.
A military officer writing from Galveston,
Texas, says that there are now but ten INDECENT
negroes in that Ct .. - IRON,
government. The negroes there will require
but little aid as the wages they receive are
amply sufficient for their wants.
The expenditures of the Navy Department
for the year ending June 80, 1865, amounts to
SIP 900, 600. The Secretary estimated the
expenses of the current year at S23, 900, 000
Although Commissioner Orton has not for
mally resigned his position the Secretary of the
Treasury has fully decided to appcnt the
present Assistant Commissioner, A. Rollins.
his successor This announcement may be
considered official, and made thus early to
forestall applications that would flow in
Special to the Herald dated Washington 20,
says: The Secretary of the Treasury has de-
of twenty dollars, one hundred dollars, one
thousand dollars, five thousand dollars, and
ten thousand dollars.
The 500 bonds of other denominations will
be ready before the end Of the month.
Gov. Crapo, Of Michigan, left here last night
Besides his interview with the Secretary of
War yesterday, he also called upon Secretary
McCulloch, and urged the settlement of the
State claim against the Government for the
equipment of its troops. He was told no
claims of such character had yet been settled
save that of Massachusetts,, which had been
made an exception in this regard, because of
the persistency of Gov. Andrew No State
had been paid its accounts against the War
Department. Upon this score he thought it
was intimated that it was partly determined
to liquidate such claims by deducting from
this amount the respective assessments of the
States under the direct tax. Gov. Crapo was
partment of $3.50, 900, and is required to raise
by direct tax $500, 900, would lave a balance
of nearly $4,000 on the wrong side of her
ledger.
The trial of Lusby for the murder of the girl
Octavius Osean, of this city, was concluded
to-day by the acquttal of the prisoner after
ten minutes delioeration OF the jury Lasby,
who was discharged from the army shortly
before the occurrence, was tried on purely
circLmstantal evidence.
The military Director of the Freedmen's
Bureau from the southeast district of North
Carolina, reports under date of October 7th,
that there are thirteen large rice plantations
occupied and cultivated by Freedmen, which
extend below Wilmington distance of some
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