The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-27
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! WASHINGTON, Sept. %.
The act of Congress authorizing the lO 4,
loan, fixed the limit at two hundred million
of dollars, but the Secretary of the Treastr,
finding that it interfered with the taking o
the 5 per cent. loan, discontinued it when ons
hundred ard seventy-three millions were il
sued. There is probability that the re
naming twenty seven millions will shortly bs
put upon the market.
The Post Office Department has issued
circular, giving notice that the penalties fixed
by law for carrying letters outside the mails
when not enclosed in government stampet
envelopes, will be rigidIy enforced in ever
instance where violation exists Only let
ters relating to cargoes and freight of watel
craft, or other vehicles employed upon mai
reutes, may be lawfully carried not enclosed
as above. By the terms of this order unpaid
letters for delivery, and those prepaid BY
postage stamps, cannot be carried outside the
nail by any of these conveysnces without sub
lectng the captain, owner, driver, and other
employees to q penalty of $50 for each Of.
Tense.
The FIRST session since the close of the wa,
OF the United States District Court, Judge
Underwood presiding, convened to-day in
Alexandria, Va. The District Attorney, 4.
II. Chandler, made a very eloquent aud foreii-
BILE spaech, Irgins upon the Court liberal
policy in treating the large number Of confis-
| cation cases upon the docket.
The Judge, before adjournment, made the
following decision
ordered, That in all cases where pardons
have been g-anted, and where the amnesty
cath has Leen taken. save as to those under
the Pres,dent's proclamation, ail suits for
property under the eoniiscation law are dis
missed upon payment of costa.
A large number Of citizens interested under
this ruling were present 10 Court, and imme-
diately came forward and paid the costs that
had accrued upon suits begun against them.
Especial to the Times.l
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.
The rnsh ofpardon seekers to-day was moi
SO l4rgeas usuai Among those who have for
weeks daily sought personal audience with
the President to press their application is l..
Pope Walker, the first Secretary of War of
the rebel confederacy, also sent the famous
order from Montgomery, Ala, TO Gen Beau
regard, at Charleston. '.open fire On Fort
Sumter" He is still waiting. and is likely
to continue to GO 80.
II Is Doubtful If the President will make the
contemplated exCIg.on south.
Among the southern mail routes ordered to
be resumed to-day was the route from Austin
to San Antonio, and from Jonesboro to FAY
etteville, Georgia.
Secretary Stanton resumed his Official du
ties at the War Department THIS morning.
The rsceIts or Internal revenue Today
were one million nine hundred thousand one
hundred and twenty-six dollars and ninety
eight cents.
Collector King and Surveyor WakeIuan, OF
New York, are here working indpstriously to-
gether for the expenses ofcdl llecting revenue,
| AMI have already made considerable reduction
in dispensing with a large portion of the cler-
ical and other help.
| In ether departments great abuses tina,
| have long been talked of will also be now bro
ken up.
Secretary Harlan leh here Yesterday fol-
Iowa, whore he expeGts to remain for two
weeks During his absence Judge Quo. As
sistant Secretary, will discharge the duties Of
| the office.
Especial to New York Tribaaai
~AsHissToS, Sept. 25.
| Tie combinations for the Speakership are
already forming. Mr.. Colfax leads with q
| fair prospect. Ashley, of Ohio, has many
earnest friends. Greene Clay Smith. of + en-
lucky, is urged with inaueatiA, pertaacity
| while the advocates of Henry j. Raymond
are, ofall, undoubtedly the most zealously
Operative. They boast of their ability te
swallow all lesser candidates, and one over
confident boastsd that taey We in possession
Of the proper argument and in sufficient qnan.
| tity to insure an ultimate triumph.
Gov. Lyon, of Idaho, has been de-
tanned here to receive instructions in regard
| to treaty he is authorized to make with the
Indians of his superintendency. He leaves
for the seat of Government to-norrow.
The leading Freedmen S Aid Society, East
the title of the "American Freedmen's Aid
Commission and will hereafter operate as
single organization. This movement has met
the cordial approval of the Freedmen's Blu
reau, and Secretary viii be located in this
city who will be i'll communication with the
Bureau, through whom all communication
from local organizations, and branch soeietie.
may be brought to the attention of the proper
officers of the Government, or Of tho proper
agents of the Commission In the States. The
gentleman assigned to this Office is Mr.. jacob
n. Shepperd, late Secretary of the North
Western Freedmen Commission, at Chicago
Mr.. Shepperd is now here arranging for the
opening of an office.
1 Bishop Simpson, OF Philadelphia, is the
President of the new Commission.
| Some time since, a petition was sent te
the President form New Orleans, representing
that it was impossible to distinguish Confede
rate from other Gotten, aud that the attemp
| to enforce the rights of the Government anq
the confscation act, was causing mischievoui
delays, vexation and loss to legitimate com
merce. The petitioners prayed, therefore
for the abandonment of this, that all cotton be
subject to tax of from 10 to 20 per cent. ol
such sum as shall be deemed sufficient ts
cover the claims of Government
Some SO AZ 90 al the Oidest cotton factory
houses of New Orleans, have just sent the
President a memorial, which states that nc
such difficulty existed; that the Confederate
cotton may be distinguished from that owned
by private parties; and they protest agains,
such provision rs above as o contrivance fol
the benefit of irregular spectators. They
have large claims upon planters for advances
made before the war. 1t is supposed to be
the especial effort of some to get hold of cot
ton belonging to these factories, and it is also
suggested that they may claim ownership un
der the laws Of Louisiana and even as aeainsl
the United States and the confiscation act.
| NEW YoRK, Sept. 26.
! The FIVE mile, four Dared boat race for 9
stake of $4,000, and the championship o
America, between the Bglan brothers, ofthis
| this citv and tho Ward hrnthorc nc N..hu..