The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-20

Mexican Affnirs-~AGustering out
| TfOOps~-Payma9 Frauds.
DANGEROUS Counterfeit, etc,
NEW YoRK, Sept. 49,
| A special correspondent to the Philadelphia
Enquirer gives currency to a report that Ju-
arez designs abandoning the country for the
present, and coming to this city, where he
win join his wife and hmily, who have been
for some time residing here. Before leaving
Chihuahua he issued protest against the I'm
perial occupation of Mexico, asserting his
claim to the Chief Magistracy of the country.
1t is said that in the document Juarez an
nounces himself fall blooded Indian, and q
lineal descendant of the Montezumas.
The 7ribanes Washington special says,
among other organizations the following reg
iments have been ordered discharged immedi-
ately: 18th, 10Th and 32d Illinois Infantry,
Iowa Infantry. 11th Kansas Cavalry, 5th Min
nesota Infantry, 68th, I'D, 18th and 196th,
and 18th independent company of Ohio sharp
shooters, 26th Ohio Battery, Sth and !th
Missouri Infantry. The 18th and 18th Indi-
ana Cavalry have also been ordered TO be
cousolidated, to be called the l3ths
The Times special says upon the suggestion
of corruption among the pay masters in the
Department of Missouri, the Government re-
Gently sent an inspector to that department to
investigate that fact. The inspector returned
last Saturday, having in custody pay-master
Holt, who was arrested upon various charges
of corruption and fraud. The inspector re-
presents that matters in the pay masters de-
partment of Missouri are generally conducted
in criminallv loose manner: that he dis
covered seven or eight pay masters were alb
sent from duty without leave: that they were
in the habit of charging extreme fees for
making mp statements for soldiers. &c. A
general overhauling of affairs of that depart
ment will Immediately take place.
There has been for a long time in the
Treasury department rule that no person
other than those employed in the Government
bank note printing department shall be per
mitted TO visit the room where the greenbacks
| are prepared, unless upon special orders from
the Secretary of the Treasury. Occasionally
the Secretary has given permits to visit these
rooms, and it is now discovered that some of
these persons have taken advantage of the
privileges thus extended. and have made
themselves familiar with the intricate ma
chinery 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 pre-
| tense. be permitted to enter the rooms above
mentioned.
| The entire revenue receipts from internal
revenue, from the lst day OF July up TO, and
! inclusive, of the 10th day amount to the hand
some sum of Ss0,479, ,5o2 Al. This far excels
the expectation of Commissioner Orion. and
in fact is a much greater sum than the most
sanguine well-wishsr of the government has
calculated upon.
| The receipts to- day amount to Sl,sl7, ,46a
| OF.
It. Col. Taggert, Acting Adjutant General
at the Freedmen Bureau, has been relieved
from duty at his own request and will tender
his resignation and retire from the service.
The War Department has decided that off
GERS rendering their designations are entitled
TO the three months pay proper, the same as
allowed to officers who are mustered out
The order to muster out the Goth y. Y.
Infantry has been revoked.
The Heraid's special says the amount OF
notes issued from the treasury TO the National
Banks last week was SO, 42l. $50. making the
grand total of Sls3. 402, $40, now ahoat.
One hundred pardons were granted to
Southern men to- day by the President, d plu,
rality of which were to Alabamians and q
majority to virginians. Only two or three per.
these are of the negative rather than positive
class of men.
The crowd of female applicants was not Sc
riously diminished by the unfavorable stute oi
the weather. and the ANTERIOR were as sab
stantially crowded and jammed by men as ever
before.
A careful scrutiny of the new counterfeit,
500 compound interest notes, by all the ex.
perts at the Treasury Department, has con
vinced them that the note was printed from
the original dies or bed pieces which were
engraved outside of the Treasury at the com.
mencement Of greenback manufacture. By
the terms of the contract with the first engra
vers of green back plates, dies were to be
given up to the Treasury Department when j,
chose to take the manufacture of currency in.
TO its own hands.
Secretaries Chase and Fessenden each made
demands for the plates during their terms OF
office, but neither succeeded in getting hold
of all the stock and consequently did no,
pay for the plates.
Upon the accession of Mr.. McCuloch to
the Secretaryship, the engravers made de-
rnaud upon him for payment, alleging that
they had delivered all the stock. Ihis allie.
: CATION was denied in counter report from
: the Printing Bureau, although by some chi.
canery the report never fell under the eve oil
the Secretary, and all transactions between
outside engravers and the Treasury Depart.
ment were closed and settled by the payment
4 of the claims. 6HE
The back of the new counterfeit note is
made of the back of 5 per cent. interest
note of the same denomination, and the scroll
and lathe work is alike with the exception ol
the central portion, where the interests COM
puted. The lettering of the computation is
counterfeited The balance Of the back, it is
believed, has been printed from the missing
portions of the stock, which have some how
come into the possession of the former.
i This opinion is shared by all experts in the
Treasury save one, who thinks the spurious
plate may have been obtained by the Apple
ton process of transferring. At all events,
the one hundred dollar compound interest
counterfeit is dangerous one, being as good
looking in most parts as those of our Uncle s
i own make.