New-York daily tribune., 1865-12-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
speciOl Dispatch to The N. Y. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Dec IL, 1865
THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS.

tle fftslucnt not lDtenu issuc
Congress but abstain from whatever might lead TO
conflict between the Legislative and the Executive
branches of the Government. more cordial feeling
is gaining ground and ii expected that good under
standing will be preserved.
SENATOR COwAN's RESOLUTION.
The President intends, il is understood, to re-
ply to Senator Cowans resolution during the present
week.
THE COUNTERFEIT 800 PLATE.
There has been much published of an entirely
character. duplicating persons unqueston-
ably innocent in connection with the counterfeit 500
plate. The Treasury Department has now in its
possession the original plate, engraved by the Bank
Note Company. the one produced by the Currency
Bureau and and also the counterfeit and tits believed
that by the close ofthe present week critical e1amna
ton of all these plates by experts will decisvely deter
mine from which the counterfeit was electrotyped
AN OHIO REGIMENT.
Brevet Brigader Gen. Banning left this ev6n-
ingyia Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad with his regiment
for Ohio 1t comprised 20 commissioned officers and
73j enlisted men, and mustered ont to-day at Alex
sudria. They are ordered to Columbus for final pay
ment and discharge.
GOVERNMENT SALE ADJOURNED.
The great Government sale OF railroad iron
and material at Alexandria has been adjourned. No
tice will be given of the reopenng Of the sales.
THE HON. THOMAS C0RwIN.
The Hon. Thomas Corwin, who was stricken
with paralysis late on Friday night social gathering
of Ohioans la. remained apparently unconscious up
the present time and evidently sinking At O'Clock
this evening his physician announces the improbably
Its ,xfp IIa IaI iuaf mad
from brief visit to bis family in Ohio whore he had
attended the marriage Of his youngest daughter His
relatives have not yet arrived but are expected TO-
morrow.
NATIONAL BANKS.
The following National Banks were estab-
lished last week
The Usage Iowa, capital $4,000; the Valley OF
Stanton Va capital sl01 000 the Peoples of Charles
ton, ). c. capital s2OO000; the fIrst Of Charleston,
capital s2o0 coo; the State National Bank OF Minneopo'
lis Minnesota capital 10000. The number Of Ma.
tiopal Banks now in operation ia l,623. The total
amount Of National Bank currency sned mp to date Is
s2e9, 7I6 Od5.
CERTIFICATES REDEEMED.
The Treasury Department last week re-
deemed Certificates Of Indebtedness amounting to
600. and currency and gold certificates TO the
amount Of o.. 39l. .43o
THE FREEDMEN IN ALABAMA AND FLORIDA.
Gen. Howard to-day received telegram
from Brig.-Gen Swayne. Assistant Commissioner OF
the Freedmens Bureau for Alabama stating that in
his opinion at least 40 600 refugees and freedmen will
be compelled to rely upon the Government for raons
during the coming Winter.
The Bureau is also in receipt OF reports from the As
sstant Commissioners for the States Of Florida and
North Carolina both Of which are comparatively en-
couragng. Nearly all OF the freedmen OF the former
State are living in their old quarters and employed by
their former masters and the old spirit Of Incidence
and vagrancy has given way to commendabe industry
The total number Of ratlons issued to freedmen and
whites in the State during November last was 1900
The report Of the Commissioner North Carolina repre-
sents comparatively little suffering among the freedmen
al present but apprehensive ofconsderabe desituon
this Winter The number Of rations issued during last
month TO the destitute. including whites, was lUe l2s,
a decrease Of over 1000 since last MONTH There ara
at present within the State 81 colored schools. with
total average attendance Of 1853 pupils There are at
present 3 freedmen and refugees In the State under
the medical supervision of the Bureau
INTERNAL REVENUE.
The receipts from internal revenue on Satur-
were 1854, ,2O9.
NEW FEDERAL COINAGE.
The Director of the mint has forwarded to
the Secretary Of the Treasury for his approval specl
mems of the double eagle, eagle and half eagle gold
coins and the dollars half dollars and quarter dollars
(silver coins), with the motto, in God we trust" on
the reverse of each coin, as provided by the fifth sec
lion of the act of Congress Of March g. 1865 The ad
dtion Of these words on the specimens we saw add
much to the beauty Of our coinage IL is not designed
to issue them for general circulation however at
present.
DISMISSAL OF CLERKS.
Notice was served upon 10 treasury clerks
TO day that their services would not be required after
Jan. l. 1856.
To the Associated Press.
gWAsHEGTOS. Dec. IT, lstJ.
TIE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.