The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-20

loose. He discovered that sevsu or
eight paymasters wsre absent from
duty without leave that thsy were IN she
habit Of charging extra fees for making up
statements Of soldiers -s
There has been for long time in the
Treasury Department rule that no per-
sons other than those employed in the
government Bank Note Printing Depart.
ment shall be permitted TO visit the rooms
where the greenbacks are prepared, unless
| upon special order from the Secretary of
the Treasury. Occasionally the Secretary
has given permits to visit these rooms. 1t
Is now discovered that some Of these per-
sons have taken advantage of the privilege
thus extended, and have msde themselves
familiar with the machinery of the estab-
lishment, thereby enabling them to coun-
tsrfeit the national currency Secretary
HcCulloch hiss now directed that no per-
son other than al employee of the Print
ing Department, shall, under any presence,
be permitted TO enter the rooms above
mentioned.
The receipts from the Internal Revenue
from the LIST day of July up to and inclusive
os TO day amounted to the handsome sum
of $50, ATS, 502.41. This far exceeds the
expectations of Commissioner 0rtOn, and
in fact is q much greater sum than the
most sanguine we'll Wishers Of the govern.
ment had calculated upon. The receipts
to-day amount TO 81, ,sl5. .496 81.
Lieutenant Colonel g. II, Tsgzard,
Acting Adjutant General at the Freed
mems Bureau, has been relieved from duty
st his oEn request and will tender his res
ignstion and return from the service.
The War Department has decreed that
officers rendering their resignation are en-
titled to three months pay proper the same
as allowed 70 the officers who are mustered
out The order to muster cut the seth
New York Infantry has bsen revoked.
The Herald's special says: The amount
OF notes Issued from the Treasury to the
National banks wss 8 427,25O, making the
grand total of ls3, 400, $40 now afoat.
Over one hundred pArdons were granted
to Southern men to day By the President.
But two or three persons of much note are
mong tho number. The craft of female
applicants was not sensibly diminished by
the unfavorable state of the weather.
A careful scrutiny of the new counterfeit
800 compound interest note bY ali the ex-
perts HT Jn5 Treasury has resulted ia the
conviction that it is from the original dies
or bed, which we're engraved outside of the
Treasury at the commencement of the
greenback man ufacture. By the terms of
the contract with the first engravers of
greenback plates all of the dies were
to be given up to the Treasury department
when 1t chose 70 take the manufacture of
currency into its own hands. Secretaries
Chase and Fessenden each made demand
for the plate during their term of Office,
buk neithaF auecaaded in o,a4fino, bold %
all the stock, and consequently did not pay
for the plates.
=, Upon the succession of Mr.. Mccullough
to the Seeretaryship the engrsvers made a
demand upon him for payment, alleging
that they had delivered all the stock. This
allegation was denied in q counter report
from the Printing Bureau, although by
some crook the report never fell under the
eye of the Secretary and all the transac-
tions between outside engrsYers and the
ressury Department were closed and set
tied by the payment of the claim.
The back Of the new counterfeit note is
made like the back of q five per cent
interest note. The scroll and lathe work
is alike with the exception Of the central
portion where the interest is computed.
The lettering Of computation is cCnterfeit-
cd. The balance of the back, it is believed,
has been printed from the missing portions
Of the stock which has somehow come into
possession of the forger. This opinion is
shared by all experts in the Treasury, save
one who thinks the spurious plate may
have been obtained by the process of
The one hundred dollar coun-
terfeit is s dangerous one, being IS good
locking IN most parts as the genuine.