New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-05-07

The disbursements and transfers o. the treasury Depart
mcn FOR the week ending the 9Th inst amounted TO
$3.50 "a. The amount of fractional currency issued
during week $27 $50 and the amonnt shipped to
different points throughout the country, $23,5S ~.
National Bank note circulation, amounting to ,O7G,5O,
was issued last week by the Treasury Department. The
total amount issued up to date is So ,262 6j
The actual receipts of the Government from the sources
below mentioned for the first nine months OF the present
fiscal ear follows
Customs Ison) sSsi go
Miscellaneous premium on gold &c).... g. 1880
Actual aggregate receipt to April l. 1866. s4lOOf.as2
The same ratio for the remaining three months will make
the aggregate for the entire year sOOO0OOO without in
GLIDING the income tax now being assessed and collected
within the present fiscal year which added to the amount
received mp to April will swell the amount Of revenue
from the sources mentioned TO $56O00o00).
The disbursements of the Treasury account of the de-
partments specified during the week ending today were;
War Department, s75,i2O; Navy Department. s5g' 6sl;
interior, $22s 5lj; total $9Ol,6lG.
INTERNAL REVENUE.
The receipts from internal Revenue last week were
;S,3O6,555 OF.
THE - CONSCIENCE FUND.
Treasurer spnne- is in daily receipt Of letters contain
lug contributions the conscience fund of the Treas
NY Department which, during the past year, have
amounted between twenty and thirty Thousand dollars
These resolutions generally made by anonymous par
ties most of whom Government discussing officers.
The following letter was received by Gen Spinner
Saturday last.
FR SPINNER esq T,easurey ofhe Uai,ed SG'es;
years ego few dollars worth OF articles we're
brought into New YORK ron Eaf9pe a. % NE ny
pay duties such things and therefore dd not DO so nc
vel he Qth
injustice and sends herewith the amount principal and inter
est. compounded 10 date, viz. s22.
Twenty dollars was also received from anonymous
correspondent who says that he drew that amount from
the Government which he is satisfied did not be-
long to him.
CHANGES IL THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.
The following changes have been made in the Ordnance
Department: Brcyet COLT 4. S. Ladley, assigned 10 the
command If the New-York Arsenal; Breyet Col j. G.
Benton assigned TO the command of the Springfield
Amory and Brevet Major-Gen. George d. Ramsey, TO
the command Of the Washington Arsenal
WASHINGTON MAY g. lsG6.
RrNDRRPEsT AND CHOLERA ~ ENGLAND
The Department of State has received dispatches from
the United States Consul at London dated April ~,
wherein stated that the cattle plague is decidedly and
that il will itself out and entirely disappear
From the same learn that telegram from
NewYok dated April g. states that the steamer England
had inst put into Halifax for medical aid with cholera on
hoard supposed to have been communicated by migrants
from Germany The Consul proceeds to state that he can.
not learn that there is or has recently been single case OF
cholera in England and therefore he concludes that the
disease the result of infection taken from any o-
caty in England. Newspapers say that the cholera Is on
the Rhine and in some localities in Spain and France but
vet aamingy prevalent in any OF these countries
CESsIOS MINERAL LANDS.
II stated that negotiation of considerable magnitude
has just concluded with the Mexican Minister here
yrhi inyo he American
capitalists of nearly the entire peninsula of Lower Cali
fona for colonization purposes and 10 secure the develop
ment of the extraordinary mineral wealth OF that territory
The Mexican Government retains interest III the pro-
ceeds Of the enterprise but II understood that the sum
advanced BY the parties who have secured the grant is up
ward of million of dollars which at this time will be OF
important service 10 the Liberal cause The names Of the
following gentlemen appear IN the conveyance as holding
the privileges trust for the parties Jacob r. Lease,
BENJAMIN f. Butler, John Anderson, George Wilkes,
William G.. Fargo, William II. Trayers, s. L. NJ Barlow,
Francis Morris and Edward 5. Sanford.
WHITE MAN CONVICTED BY NEGRO TESTIMONY.
private letter from Newbern, N G., says that at the
United States District Court in in that city
white has just been convicted Of passing counterfeit
national currency black man having been the principal,
if not the only witness against him. The writer speaking
of such testimony, says: "This marks new era IL
the history of North Carolina under the civil nights prn-
ciple."
memorial has been sent to Congress asking for the
passage of general insurance law by which companies
NAV deposit with the United States Treasurer Government
bonds covering the of their obligations amount
of capital in to the insurance in the of
national banking incorporaons IL is claimed that the
operation OF such law would give to the really solvent
companies the public confidence TO which they
titled.
THk PAYMAsTER.6EYgRALs ORDER.
Pavmaster General Bruces order TO all paymasters Of
the army has perompory That during the procedure
of disbursement the Government funds should be kept by
the discussing officer where the Treasurer draft had placed
them II is said but for the violation Of this order tho
Government and all the discussing officers OF the Govern
ment would be entirely secure by reason Of The securities
in the hands of the Treasurer left expressly for that
nurunse Within the last six months Paymastcr T..
+. Panlding had si0OO0OO from various officers, of
which $JO0OoO on the llth of November last,
and 100000 on the 9Th Of January, four
Sanr months ago all that drawn upon the recently
suspended Merchants National Bank OF this city which
,os .nupnsed had been withdrawn for the payment Of
troons But there was $,DO,O0O additional belonging TO
Tho ov.rnment in that institution. IL is claimed that
there is security 10 cover all the bonds which were eg
matey placed there. Paymaster Pauding however, has
requested the nvest CATION OF his conduc by Comnis
s;nnar of Inouirr and asserts that money i'm
properly placed in that bank by himself whatever may be
iha degree of responsibility The Government VIII proba
bv lose i've six hundred thousand doiiafs
REVENUE CIRCULAR
The following circular has just been issued after the
most careful consideration; - p
~ wAsnNGIoS, May s. 1866.
Three questions have arisen under the internal revenue laws
the tax upon sales Of stocks exchange oaon
oised msnsy bank notes and other securities viz;
Fa Are brokers liable TO tax upon their saos VI ,nsI
stocks &C., well a. upon sales Oh those os''nkus
Sseond, Are bankers dons general business a, such and
selling their own stocks liable to the duties imposed
goth upon and bankers doing business
brokers, in addition TO those imposed upon teem As
bsnke1t
TAd Are bankers who sell ouv stocks belonging TO
themselves bat also those belonging 10 others to be
bankers doing business br0kers and therefore liable 10
supreme Court ofhe United States and has been decided
by first that brokers liable TO their sales
posory notes secnTics a. upon those be
QpLDg " otle Psrtt doing genera Dasine's