New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-27


-oRDER-MR. sEwARD1s HEALTH-TBANsFER OF
UNION. DEAD--A AUTHORITATIVE DENIAL.
Especial Dsp4tsh to the Missouri Democratic
WAsHINGToN, Sept. pit would appear from
the following order from the President that he has
become tired of welding the axe, and now turns
over the work Of slaughter to his cabinet
ministers:
n In consequence of the pressure of public bust
ness, the President will hereafter be obliged to
decline receiving any committees or delegations
whose principal object is to present programmes
for removals and appointments to Office. All
such business must necessarily be referred to the
appropriate department Of the government for
attention.
BY orders from army headquarters the head
quarters of the Department of the Tennessee have
been transferred from Nashville, Tenn. to Louis
vile, KY.
The amount of funds in the treasury cash vault,
at the close Of business to-day, $40 739 $3.50, of
which III, 100000 was in legal tender notes and
1892, $50 in gold.
The amount Of fractional currency printed dur
ing the week ending to-day was s432,00 -S408,
on 81 of which was shipped the assistant treas
urers and national banks. During the same period
$448, 500 OF fractional currency was redeemed and
Cancelled.
National bank circulation to the amount Of
$685., 40 was issued during the week, making a
total to date Of S29,224, 100.
The internal revenue receipts for the week were
$6,785,5T3 50.
The receipts Of customs at the port Of Philadel-
phia from the sth to the 18th inst, inclusive were
The securities held by Treasurer Spinner for
a National bank circulation and for public deposits
amount in the aggregate to $50 T7si300.
The disbursements for the week have been as
follows; Interior department $50. War de-
partment $655, H.
Secretary Seward has So far recovered that he
was able to call on the President to-day.
Ct has come to light that arrangements are
making to have several thousand mechanics and
aaboreTs set at work upon the various battered
and useless hulks now lying in ordinary at the.
PhiIadelphiasnavy yard, with view to using their
votes in favor of Glymer at the coming Pennsyl-
Vania election
The work Of transferring the bodies of the
Union dead on the Antietam battlefield to the
National Cemetery there will commence on the
first of next month, under the direction of Assist
ant Quartermaster Moore, the plan for the ceme'
fiery having finally been decided upon at a meet
ing of the trustees held in Baltimore on the goth
inst. The number of dead to be buried there is
about 5000. The location of the graves of 1924
of these is known, and l706 have been identified.
All the remains of Union soldiers are to be gath
cred from the battlefield of Antietam and the
neighboring ones of South Mountain, Shepherds
town Banesville etc. The plan OF the cemetery
is similar TO that Of Gettysburg, and the entrance
to the main avenue is to be near the rock on
which General Robert Z. Lee stood during the
battle.
am authorized by Secretary McCnlloch TO
deny the statement that he has said that no money
should go out Of the treasury to pay soldiers
bounties Nothing of the kind has ever been
uttered by him; on the contrary, ne states that
there will be no delay on the part of the treasury
WAsHISGros, Sept. 22.-Recent news from
South America brings the important intelligence
that the difficulty between the United States gov
eminent and Brazil and the Argentine Republic
has been happily terminated. 1t will be remem-
bered that our minister to Paraguay, Mr.. wash
burne, was returning to his post when he was
stopped biz the allied forces who were blockading
the Paraguay river.
The United States government, on learning the
facts Immediately and emphatieally insisted that
Il .o1I6 10 IN
vent him would be violation of International law.
In view of these Representations it is now stated
on good authority that the allied governments
have withdrawn their opposition, ana thar MIR.
Washburrse has accordingly passed through the
blockade and proceeded up the river to his post
a large number Of the most prominent sup,
porters of the Presidents policy, in Maine and
New Hampshire, including Hon. Chas. A. SHAW,
the mayor of Biddleford, Maine; Gen. Roberts, Of
Bangor; Hon. s. D. M. sorrell, of Portland
1nayor of Manchester; mayor of Gorham; Hon.
Marcy, of Portsmouth, and others are now here
urging a further change OF othceholders in those
Nh. Romero has received to-day dispatches from
Vera Cruz, with dates Of the 18th inst containing
the following information:
The French were terrifying the city of Vera
Cruz on the land side approaches, as the Mexican
soldiers came so near that the city is thought to
be in danger of capture.
Vera Cruz on the 10th. She took on board $50
French soldiers for Mexico.
The news from the interior is most gloomy Tor
Macmillan and the French. Their former part-
sans are deserving by hundreds.
The official paper of Chihuahua of the oath.
publishes some correspondence between the Mex
lean government and the French Cen Donag in
regard to the exchange of prisoners. II appears
fhat the Mexican government has been willing to
come to some agreement about general system
of exchange while the French general declines to
accent the propositions made to him, although ne
was tile one who first applied for partial ex-
change.
The assistant commissioner Of freedmen's affairs
In Louisiana, in his report to the commissioner,
states that many complaints come to him from
Louisiana and Texas Of violations Of agreements
made BIZ the white people with the freedmen.
These cases. he finds, are when the freedmen had
made contracts that we're not sanctioned by the
bureau. The general says it IS yet dieult 70 con
froI these cases. The manner OF proceeding at
present in the courts Of justice for the negro to
bring his suit, which is generally supported by
negro evidence.
FROM JgFFRRsoN eITY-THE WORK OF REGISTERING
YoTERs-ArTEMPTED INTERFERENCE.
rspeciaf spateh TO the Missouri pemocrat.l
JEFFERSON CRY, Sept. 23.-The registration of
voters commenced here yesterday and continued