The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-23

Decided TO Issue Gold Notes.-The Nc
tsrOes inTexaS!-Expenses or the Navy
DeP1rtInent--Sta1eA Accounts Against
the Government. i.'7silT 9 ~
NEW YoRK, Oct. 2l.-A specia1 to the
Herald, dated Washington, 10th, saws !:
The Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided to issue the gold notes. -. 7 /.
a medical officer writes from Calves
ton, Texas, on the 30tl ult., that there
are not more than ten INDECENT negroes
IN that vicinity receiving aid from the
government, and it is his impression
that the negroes will require little helm.
as the wages they are earning are amp
~ sutllcientfor their wants. Tho writer
lind not yet nade any observations in
the interior, but from nll accounts from
there, 1t appears that freedmen are get
ting along equally we'll in the upper
country. = r-r.--
Tho expenditures ofthe Navy Depart
ment for the year ending June 80, 1866.
amounted to one hundred and twelve
millions. The Secretary estimates the
expense OF the current year Mt $43, 600, Co.,
As Commissioner Orten has not forms
erly resigned his position, the Secretary
OF the Treasury has fully decided to
appoint tho present Assistant Commits
sioner Il. A. Rollins his successor. This
announcement may be considered Off.
cial, and is mude thus early to forestall
scores of applications that would other
wise flow In. ~ = -- :
A, special to the Herald, from WASH
ington, Goth, says:
TheSecretary of Treasury has decided
to issue the gold notes for New York
use, in the denominations of $1,000 and
$1,000 and 800 and S20. The $1,000 $40
bonds are nOwyreadY and being issued
from the Registers Omce. Bonds Of
the other denominations will be ready
before the end of the month,
GOV. Grape of Michigan left here last
night. Besides his interview with the
Secretary of War yesterday, he also
called upon Secretary AIcCnlloch, and
against the government for the equip
ment of its troops He was told that no
claims of this character had been settled,
save thnt presented by Massachusetts,
which had been made the exception in
this regard, because of the persistent and
annoying opportunities of Gov. AM
drew. Ofthis single instance of forced
Partially, no State had been paid its
account against the War Department.
Upon this score though it was intimated
that it had been partially determined to
liquidatesuc clnims by deducting from
their amounts tho respective assess-
mentS of the states under the direct tax.
Under this ruling Gov. Grape was made
TO see that Michigan, which brings n
and dollars, and is required to raise by
direct tax, five hundred thousand dol
lars, would have a balance of nearly
three hundred thousand dollars on the
wrong side of her ledger.
The trial of Lushy for the murder of the
girl, octavius ROsseau, in this city last
November. was concluded to-day, by
the acquii tn of the prisoner after eight
minutes deliberationbyt the Jury. The
Attorney entered IL nolle pros. In the
charge of rape, tile evidence against
Lushy, who was discharged from the
army shortly before the occurrence, was
purely circumstantial and too weak.
The Medical Director of the Freed
mems Bureau, for the 10th East District
of North Carolina, reports under date
of October 18th, that there are over tiE-
teen large rice plantation occupied and
cultivated by Freedmen, which extend
below Wilmington, distance of some
IL miles on both sides of Cape Fear
river.
The Worlds special says:
Post Master General Dennison this
evening ordered service on tho East
Tennessee 81 Virginia railroad from
Knoxville, by 25 intermediate points to
Gordonsville, Va. The service TO be dai-