The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-12-19

emit portions Of the country, directed 10 the or.
nee OF inc company. 1t appears that agencies
vous for troops, and as soon as a regiment was
mustered out and paid on, the soldiers were
approached by agents, who guaranteed, for the
coMpensauon referred to, to benefit the soldiers
asfpToposcu by this means entire companies
subscribed, paid away their hard earnings, and
were sWindied by interruptions men, whose
occupation during the war was to prey upon
their fellows The Government detectives are
on the track OF this set Of rascals. and 1t IL ex
pected That, unless they have fed the country.
they Will be apprehended and suffer the pc
nalty prescribed chronicle.
FREEpMESAFFAiRs.
Major General Howard, Commissioner has
just received report from Colonel F.. Whit
tleSey, Assistant Commissioner for the State
OF North Carolina, In which he represents that
acts Of violence and serious difficulties be-
tween negroes and whites are very rare None
deserving ment ton have been reported during
the month The restitution Is not so great as
was anticipated but there Is reason to fear
that 1t will increase before spring In the
western district Of the State the freedmen are
beginning to look for homes, and that con-
tracts are made for the next year at fair
wages, and many are renting lands on liberal
terms The greater Part of the blacks under
stand that they must work, and are willing to
do so. The temper Of the better class of whites
toward the blacks is COED
The Commissioner gives the number Of
schools III the State as sixty seven, the num-
Der OF scholars rs seven thousand and fifty
three. The number of hospitals has been di-
unfinished to twelve.-U
NAIL FACILITIES.
Contracts have been ordered for service to
commence Immediately on a number of i'm
portant routes in South Carolina, Georgia.
Florida and other Southern States; and it is
oeheved that they will be put in operation
without delay. We name some in Virginia:
Route 1850, Cady's Tunnel to Lexington
L.. KOnS1ck'S White Sul
A. ID. TrOtter
Mrs. Mary b. Thompson has the route from.
Bowling Green to Newtown, Bowling Green
to Mangohick, and Bowling Green to Edge
J. C. Howard, of Washington, d. c., has
the route from Fredericksburg to Tappahan-
mock.
J. T. Rouse, Of Washington, d. c., has the
route from Tappahannock to Richmond
Henry earns, OF Warsaw, has the route from
Warsaw to kinsale.
J. T. Rouse has the route from Tappahan-
mock to Gloucester Courthouse.
CIRCULATION.
The National Currency Bureau last week is
sued to national banks currency amounting to
four million seven hundred and ninety one
thousand two hundred and ten dollars
REDEMPTION.
The Redemption Division of the Treasury
Department, for the week ending December IT,
1860, redeemed five hundred and thirty three
thousand dollars in certificates of indebted
Hcss, ana uFe MlIllOnS tnree hundred and nine
ty-one thousand four hundred and thirty dol
lars in currency and gold certificates.
The ladies Of the National Union Relief AS.
ISOLATION are preparing to give bountiful
Christmas dinner to the freedmen at the
Campbell Hospital, including the teachers and
scholars, embracing in all seven hundred
people.
The extensive sale of the materials in the
warehouses and workshops IT Alexandria of
the United States military railroad has been
temporarily suspended, to enable purchasers
to remove the articles already sold, when the
sale will recommence. AT the sale on Friday
varnshes sold at il IS to 81. 80 per gallon lin
seed oil at 81 40; several thousand gross of
screws al % to 81 cents per gross axes new
ut Sl4 to Sl4 20 per dozen.
Last week, the Comptroller of the Currency
issued certificate authorizing the commence
ment of business to the National Valley
Bank, at Staunton, Va, and various others in
the Northern and Western States.
The American Legation at Jeddo, Japan has
to the Department of Agriculture
2 lot of vegetable and flower seeds, embracing
over two hundred varieties. 1t is not stated
whether these seeds are intended for public
distribution, or merely for experimental pur-
poses in the gardens connected with the De-
partment.