The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-19

rebel prvateer Florida IN Brazilian port, sAd her sub
sequent loss in our waters The BraziaG government
had anticipated the action the part Of this govern
ment and withdrawn the order closing it's ports To the
Wachusett.
THE COUNTERFEIT COMPOUND INTEREST NOTES.
careful scrutiny Of the new counterfeit one hundred
dollar compound interest note by all the experts at the
Treasury Department has convinced them that the note
was printed from the original dies or bed pieces which
engraved outside of the Treasury at the
ment of greenback manufacture By the terms Of the
contract with the first engave greenback plates the
dies were TO be given up to the Treasury Department
when it chose take the manufacture of currency into
its own hands Secretaries Chase and Fessenden each
made demands for the plates during their terms of oce
but neither succeeded in getting hold of all the stock and
consequently did not for plates Upon the accession
of Mr. McCulloch to the Secrearyship the engravers
made demand upon him for payment, alleging that
they had delivered all the stock. This allegation
denied in counter report from the Printing bureau,
although by some chcancry the report fell under
the eye Of the Secretary, and all transactions between
outside engravers and the Treasury Department were
closed and settled by the payment of the claim. The
back Of the counterfeit note is made up from the
back Of five per cent interest note Of the de-
the exception Of the central portion where
is computed The lettering Of the computation
terfeited The balance Of the back it is believed has
been printed from the missing portions of the
stock, which has somehow into the pos
session Of the former. This opinion Is shared
by al experts in the Treasury 0ne who thinks the
spurious plate may have been obtained by the Appleton
process Of transferring At all events the one hundred
dollar compound interest counterfeit is dangerous one
being as good looking in most parts those Of our
uncle's own make.
NATIONAL CURRENCY AFLoAT.
The amount of notes issued from the Treasury TO
national banks last week $3 421 250 making the
grand total Of slSs, ,4o2 $40 now aioat.
PARDoNs
Over one hundred pardons granted TO Southern
to-day by the Presdent,a plurality of which were
to Aabamians, and majority to Asbamans and vir
gnians But two or three persons Of much note are
among the number and these of the negative rather
than positive class Of men. The crowd Of female app
cants was not sensbly diminished by the unfavorable
state of the weather. and the ante-rooms sub
stantially crammed and jammed by males Us be-
fore.
soUTHERNERs IN WASHINGTON.
stranger visiting Washington hotels for the first tme
might well suppose himself in Southern city Fully
three-ourhs Of the guests from the lately rebeous
States and mainly bent on obtaining pardons.
PRINTING PARDON BLANKS.
The printing department Of the Treasury is crowded
with work printing pardon blanks for the first great gift
TO- rebels under the dspensaon SO pressing is the
demand for these blanks that Mr. Clark has been forced
to temporarily reduce the work currency to enable
him to keep up with it.
A TENACIOUS SHAREHOLDERS.
local superintendent Of freedmen At Camden, Arkan
planters in reference their late bondmen and has
ceved reply thereto from Of the former at the
hands Of contraband, as follows:-
The bearer Of this circular consider my property
having enactment Of the federal Congress- Of
our State government authorizing any one TO demand
him OF me. When am perfectly satisfied that the
slaves emancpated by such authority s regarded
constitutional by higher court OF law and equity
then, and not until then, will make any contract with
slave nor regard them in any other light than the pro-
pery Of those who have purchased or raised them and
am therefore the owner Of the boy who bears this
note.
The gentleman in this benighted state OF mind was
Immediately fined fifty dollars for the above expression
Of rights.
SENTENCE OF THE PURLoINER OF THE ANDERSON
WILLIE PRISON RECORDS.
Dorance Atwater convicted Of stealing the Anderson
vile prison Records is reported TO have been sentenced
TO eighteen months imprisonment pay Ane Of three
hundred dollars and 70 remain In prison until the latter
10 paid.
PERSONAL.
RM T. Hunter, Of Virginia, is among the arrivals at
wiard'a
Chief Justice Chase left Washington to-day for New
York. and will probably remain days at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel
General Schenck has returned TO his family in Wash
inston from his late stumpng and election through
Ohio and Is understood 10 be well satisfied with the
phase Affairs are assuming there.
GENERAL LAND OFFICE AFFAIRS.
One hundred and thirty patents will be issued TO-
from the applications acted upon last week II
has just been decided that registers and receivers Of
public oces arc restricted from entering in their
names tracts Of public land for actual settlement
under the Homestead law, the they have pre-
viously been ruled from becoming pre-empton pur
chass. Az they are required 10 adjudcae such claims
IL would be manifestly improper 70 allow them to adudi-
cate In casos involving their own interests.
THE cHoLERA.
The United States Consul at Consantinople, In let
ter to the State Department dated August a. says:
number twenty thousand, the humber Of deaths In .
single day having reached one thousand II IL said that
probably two hundred thousand Of tho terror stricken
Inhabitants have loft the city.
The Consul at Barcelona under date of August n,
says
The cholera h fully declared in this city, the deaths
from which disease have averaged to this date about
twelve per day, total number Of deaths from cholera
in Barcelona 70 August II one hundred and fifteen.
There have also been many deaths from other diseases
and although is stated that nfy thousand people
have left Barcelona during the last fifteen days leaving
at present perhaps one hundred and thirty thousand per-
In the city the 2ls instant there nfyone
deaths
The Consul At Leghorn Italy, reports under date Of
August 25:-
The cholera, which has prevailed 10 an alarming de-
gree for the past few months la Egypt Turkey and
some Of the eastern portions Of Italy, has not yet
reached this place. II has not broken out the western
coast Of Italy except at Malta Among the Mussulman
population Nightly professions perambuate the streets
chanting hymns and prayers for the averting Of the
scourge. Among the Greek population the fright has
almost resulted in famine, bakers refusing 70 make
bread butchers kill meat and groceB TO sell provi-
The panic among the masses Of tho people Is out
of all proportion 70 the danger In Ancona and other
places the Adriatc where II prevails II In very fatal,
and of those attacked more than half have died