The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
mastering Out Of Troops.
ARREST OF PAYMASTERS.
Internal Revenue Receipts.
COUNTERFEIT TREASURY NOTES.
Troops 10 be Dischar2cd-Arrest OF
Paymaster rHoit--Govcrnincn' Bank
Note Printing-Internnl Revenue
Pardons by the President-Counter'
felt 500 Compound Interest Notes.
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felt 500 Compound Interest Notes.
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NEW YORK, Sept 10.
The Tribunes Washington special
| saws that among other organizations the
following regiments have been ordered
discharged Immediately: 14th, 18th, and
| 32d Illinois infantry; SD Indiana infan-
try; Sd Indiana cavalry; 2ath Iowa in
| fantry; I'd Iowa cavalry; 10th Kansas in
fantry;sth Kansas cavalry; 5th Minnesota
| infantry; 5Sth, I'D, lS4th, 196th and 7th
independent companies Ohio sharpshoot-
ers; 26th Ohio battery; 9Th and llth Wis
consin infantry. The 18th aud 18th In
diana cavalry have also been ordered to
be consolidated, to be called the 18th.
The Times special says, upon sugges-
tions of corruption among the paymas-
ters in the Department of Missouri, the
Government recently sent an inspector
to that Department to investigate the
facts. The Inspector returned here last
Saturday, having in custody Paymaster
Holt, who was arrested upon various
charges of corruption and fraud The in
spectOr represents that matters in the
Paymasters Department of Missouri, are
generally conducted in criminally loose
manner That he discovered that seven
or eight Paymasters were absent from du-
ty without leave. that they were in the
habit of charging extreme fees for max
inc up statements for soldiers, &c A
general Overhauling of the affairs of that
Department willimmediately take place.
There has been for long time in the
fHran orfl rnl hot
persons other than those employed in
the Government Bank Note Printing De-
partment, shall be permitted to visit the
rooms where the greenbacks are prepar-
ed, unless upon special order from the
Secretary of the Treasury. Occasion
ally the Secretary has given permits to
visit these rooms.
1t is now discovered that some of these
persons have taken advantage of the
privilege thus extended, and have made
themselve familiar with the intricate
machinery of the establishment, thereby
enabling them to counterfeit the National
currency. Secretary McCulloch has now
directed that no person other than an
employee of the Printing Department,
shall under any pretence be permitted
to enter the rooms above mentioned
The entire revenue receipts from Inter
nal Revenue from the first day of last
July up to andinclusiveof to-day, amount
to the handsome sum of $S,047 $780, PAL
This far exceeds the expectations ofCom-
missioner OrtOn, and in fact is much
greater sum then the most sanguine we'll
~i,hvr ufthe Government has calculated
upon. The receipts to-day amount to
sis1, ,149,69l.
Lieut.. Col G. H. Taggart, acting Adju-
tant General at the Freedmen's Bureau,
has been relieved from duty at his own
request and will tender his resignation
and retire from service. He is succeeded
by Lieut.. Col Maxwood Hull, late of one
of the New York volunteer engineer reg
iments. The War Department has de-
cided that officers rendering their resig.
nations are entitled to the three months
nav, the same as allowed to officers who
are mustered out The order to muster
out the 56th New York infantry has been
revoked.
The Herald's special says the amount
of notes issned from the Treasury to Ma
tional Banks last week was $3,421 $50,
making the grand total of Sls3, ,4O2 $40
now at1oat.
Over one hundred pardons were grant
ed to southern men to-day by the Presi-
dent, a plurality of which were to Ala
bamians, and a majority to Alabamians
and Virginians But two or three per-
sons oil much note are among the number,
and these are of the negative rather than
positive class of men. The crowd of fe
male applicants was not sensibly dimin-
ished by the unfavorable state of the
weather, and the anti rooms were as sub
stantially crammed and jammed by males
as ever before.
A careful scrutiny of the new counter
felt 500 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 pie
ces which were engraved outside of the
Treasury, at the commencement of the
greenback manufacture. By the terms
of the contract with the first engravers
of greenback plates, the dies were to be
given up to the Treasury Department
when it chose to take the manufacture OF
currency into its own hands Secretaries
Chase and Fessenden each made demands
for the plate during their terms of office,
but neither succeeded in getting hold of
all the stock, and consequently did not
pay for the plates. Upon the accession
of Mr.. McCulloch to the Secretaryship
the engravers made a demand upon him
for payment, alleging that they had de-
livered all the stock. Thu allegation
was denied in a counter report from the
Printing Bureau, although by some Chi
chanery the report never fell under the
eve of the Secretary, and all transactions
between outside engravers and the Treas
| ury Department were closed and settled
by the payment of the claim. The back
of the new counterfeit note is made of
the back of 4 five per cent interest note
of the same denomination, the scroll and
lathe work is alike, with the exception of
the central portion, where the interest is
computed, the lettering of the computa-
tionis counterfeited. The balance of the
back, it is believed, has been printed from
the missing portions of the stock, which
has somehow come into the possession OF
the former. This opinion is shared by all
experts in the Treasury save one, who
thinks the spurious plate may have been
obtained by the appleton process OF
transferring At all events the one hun
dred dollar compound interest counter
felt is a dangerous one, being as good
locking in most parts as those OF oul
own make.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-One of the en-
gravers of the original dies oTbed pieces
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