The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-21
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
wAsmsoros, Sept 90 1895.
,sHIrnENr OF Guns AND AnxuNlrIoN iNTo THE
SOUTHERN STATES.
The following circular modifying former restrictions,
has been issued 70 Collectors Of Customs
TasAsusr DEPARTMENT,
wAsuseros, D. G, Sept IS, 1895. !
shipment OF guns and ammunition into States hereto
fore declared in insunecton is hereby 80 far modified
snoe TO this department. for the shipment of sporting
guns and ammunition therefor any reasonable amount
make woey on the s sy Of
the several applications granted by you showing tho
names and residences Of the consgnor and consIgnees
the amounts and character of the POWDER shot lead
shippsd which must BIO stated pounds Kegs bags or
'cesks designed that these shipments shall in NO
meet the Ordinary wants OF the country All other ap
p0Aaons you x WI, IsfqSs With great respect
n. MoCuLLOfH, Secretary of the Treasury.
THE COUNTERPART COMPOUND INTEREST NOTES.
the chief OF the Currency Printing Bureau made a re-
or to Secretary McCulloch to-day in reference 70 the
rnsw one hundred dollar counterfeit which has been the
Of investigation at the Treasury for several days
past The points in the report in reference to the pro-
auction OF the spurious note from portions of genuine
plate arc substantially those given in the HERALD The
secretary spent several hours In the consideration Of the
report and the examination Of experts its support
Is souty maintained by these that there is gigantic
fraud somewhere not exactly Of the of counter
feiting and apparently they have settled the sasfac
ton Of the Secretary that the trouble is in the
Printing Department Of the Treasury. ~
well executed twenty dollar greenback in two parts
pasted received at the Treasury the hoes Of the one
hundred dollar excitement gave rse the report that
anohor dangerous counterfeit had been discovered In
Vestigaton proved it to be genuine note which had
been cut in pieces by cautious person for safe trans
mission by mail.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has issued confidential
circular e the government aepos!ersMs warning them
against the counterfeit hundred dollar compound
interest Treasury lately discovered to be in circula
ton describing the differences between II and the genu
ine For their own protection the circular is withheld
from general publication at present. in hopes of detect
lis the s. oGe ,s4 ssaEs. =.
l. The Jreafy Department win not issue at present any
more compound interest notes of the denomination Of
one hundred dollars which have been counteroed and
will adopt measures to call in such in circulation
TIT SUBJECT OF PARDoNs.
The President has either adopted more liberal policy
concerning pardons has improved the method of pass
ing upon them The number issued within week must
greatly exceed that Of any corresponding period of his
adminsrat He has notified the Attorney General 10
sond him more applications at present It is csti-
House awaiting his signature The crowd in his rccep
tion room this afternoon dense and ciamorous.
PERSONAL.
General Grant is expected to return by Saturday Of
next week.
Senator Stockton of New Jersey, and Governor Bran
nete, neral Ludworh, Green Clay Smith, j. Scott A.
s. Allen and G. Edgerton of Kentucky, and General E.
". Sumner are at Wizards
Breve, Captain J.. W. French, Of the Eighth United
States infantry, the staff of General Ingalls, has been
ordercd 10 his regiment He brevetted captain for
ding small force that sunk several coal barges
I'm the channel Of the James river at night und the
bned guns of the Hewlett House battery and the rebel
Ignnboals, during the reel raid last winter
Ex-senator r. N. T. Hunter ana OK Governor Smith
returned to their homes to-day, on parole.
THE OFFICERS OF THE FREEDMENs BUREAU IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES.
The following order is published to-day
WAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF RRTuaEEs.
FREEDMET AND ABANDONED LANps,
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 1885
The following named officers are announced Assist
ant commissioners of the Bureau for the States respec
lively set opposite their names
Brcvct Major neral Saxton for Georgia and South
Carolina a. Charleston, South Carolina Brgader General
Davis Tllson, Acting Assistant Commissioner for Georgia.
reporting to Brevet Major General r. SaxtOu Augusta
Georgia. Brgad or General O. b. Fisk for Kentucky and
J W. spraguc, for Missouri and Arkansas, ST. Louis
Missouri Brigader General Wager swayne, for Alabama
z. hontgomery Anbama Brevet Brgadier General Z.
n Gregory, for Texas, at Galveston Texas; Colonel O.
Brown, for Virginia. at Richmond, Virginia; Colonel L.
WhttIesy for North Carolina at Raleigh North Carolina
Mississippi; Brevet Colonel Geo. Osborn for Florida ut
Tallahassee, Florida Rev. j. W. Conway, for louisiana
at New Orleans, Louisiana.
O. O. HOWARD. Major General, Commissioner
There indications that the present irresponsible
ethod Of administering justice by the Frcedmcns Bu-
In Southern Stats in all arising between
groes and whites, will DO modified abolished
Al present the agent Of The bureau any district weGs
an arbitrary power, from which there lies little
appeal The President is understood oppose such I'm.
limited usurpation of judicial authority and expected
70 order some nccdfu changes.
INTERNAL REVENUE REcEirTs.
The receipts returned to the Internal Revenue Bureau
to-day are given at $1,47l,455
THE INDIANS.
Judg. James Steele acting Chief Clerk OF tn, Indian
Bureau. ayes the city tomorrow to attend council Of
the Indian tribes at tho mouth of the Little Arkansas
river to he held the 4th proximo. There indica-
tons that treaties OF very desirable nature will then
Be ratified
TROUBLES AT MOBILE.
An pnonc report received to-day at the Freedmen
Burcan from Alabama brings the intelligence that the
unsettled state Of social affairs the vicinity of Mobile
nas neccssatcd the importation of mounted force
che Of the troubles The nature of tho disturb
ance has not transpred. ,a
THE MEDICAL INSPECTORS.
IL Ia noticed that among the numerous brevets
ferred upon the officers Of TIE ular army the medical
inspectors have passed unnotced No class OF staff on
cers In tho service have earned honors than the
medical inspectors. They have worked faithfully, and
corrected many abuses and saved thousands Of lives and
perhaps millions Of dollars to the government Other
medical officers whose duties during the have been
merely nominal, have been brcvetted as high brga
der general
LErTERs BY THE PRUssTAN MAILS.
Tho rates Of postage upon letters to scheswg Hostein
and Lauenbcrg by tho Prussan closed mail will here
sfter be thirty cents single rstc prepaid and
fhirty-three cents per single rate IL unpaid.
NAIL RoBBER PARDoNBD.
The President to-day granted unconditional pardon
% Francis Buchanan, who was tried by the District
Court OF Wisconsin, at the July term In 1852 for robbng