The New York herald., 1866-09-29

Of the amount OF receipts on account q cotton saes
and all other inor relating to the subject in the
possession OF the office.
Cemeteries for Union Soldiers Buried in
Virginia.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Moore, Quartermaster
United States Army, recently TO Richmond, Virgil
MIA to inspect the several places where the federal dead
buried. The national cemeteries at Cold Harbor and
Seven Pines, the nearest cemeteries Richmond have
received the number Of bodies allotted them and the
object OF the inspection devise plan to decorate
apd take proper OF the graves OF Union SOL
ders now buried In and around Richmond The re-
mains were found to be much scattered, buried az
they in groups by single individuals that was
deemed impractcable to give them the requisite atten
tion, besides the graves of those buried in the old
cemeteries lakewood and Hollywood do not appear To
have received the OF that has been be-
slowed the other graves these cemeteries, and
situated in obscure and neglected corners The graves
situated Belle Isle require that prompt action should
be taken them from obsraton as the ground
occupied by them Is ovcraowed with water whenever
the rises To purchase burial lots in oakwoQd and
Hoywood cemeteries sufficiently large 10 receive tho re-
mains OF soldiers there buried It is thought would be
more expensive than TO purchase q tract Of
ground for this purpose. site has accord
ingIy been selected on high ground overlooking
cemetery Richmond The number of bodies that will
be inferred here estimated between I'VE and six
thousand. The work Of laying out the ccmetsry and
preparing the ground TO receive the remains has been
commenced and is progressing rapidly towards compile
tion.
Pnrdoned.
The President has directed tho pardon OF Peter Repp
convicted at tho September term. 1885, OF the United
Circuit Court for the Northern District or Ohio OF
fat aaru,
imprisonment The pardon has also been ordered OF
Benjamin r. Clark, convicted at the April term of tho
United States District Court the District Of Delaware
Of passing counterfeit money, and sentenced to mpris
onfnent for one year.
The President has also pardoned, under the Amnesty
proclamation, David Irwin OF Texas J. W. Moore and
Jason R. Frank, Of Kentucky, aud J. jackson, Of
Georgia.
The Revenue Lnw-Iniorners' Fees.
Doubts having been expressed as TO whether the
schedule OF nformers fees described the CIRCULAR of
instructions issued by the Treasury Department
August Ia, 1866 is to be applied to proceeds resulting
from orfeitures well TO penalties the schedule
declared TO be and been from time OF issue,
applicable all informers' shares OF fines, penalties,
foreurcs and proceeds Of foretures accruing under
the provision OF the Intcrnal Revenue law cited in the
above mentioned circular.
Appointments By the President.
The following appointments were made to-day
coltecors-James W. Black sixth district. Missouri;
Andrew De Forrest Third district, Michigan; John X.
Flynn, Fourteenth district, OHIO, Walter $. Beckwith,
second district, Michigan; John Il. Glover. Third dis
As.sssors-W Warren Seventh district Massachusetts,;
William p. Wells First district Michigan, John Pitcher,
First district Indiana; Thomas Allen Third district.
syvana; Andrew J. Fulton, Fifteenth district, Penn
syys1a James Meskin Twelfth district ssr YORK
H. Bcebe, Third district Michigan.
Tn. Bounty Question.
The Second Auditor OF the Treasury decides that whore
the widow OF soldier married prior TO July 2s,
1885, entitled additional bounty under the
act OF Congress of that date.
The order OF the Paymastcr General excluding claim
from presenting and prosecuting claims Of dis
charged soldiers bounty under the recent OF
Congress does apply to the presentation Of this class
OF claims in the second Auditors Office.
Personal.
John Minor Bolts arrived here from the North to-day
In pass ng Baltimore yesterday he robbed at the
railroad depot Of sl4o and valuable papers.
An Embczziing Pay master.
II has trsnspired that the paymascr who embezzIed
several thousand dollars OF the government money by
cutting the sevenhy bonds In bis possession the
matured coupons and appropatng the proceeds TO his
own use la Lieutenant Colonel Thomas f. Winston chief
Paymaster OF the Pay District OF the Gulf a. New Or
leans
The following telegram from Queen Emma, accepting
the oner OF tho United States Vanderbilt
vey her from San Francisco to Honolulu has been
ceived:-
sax FRAscsco Sept 81, 1885
Hon WILLIAM II. SEWARD, Secretary OF state:--
can hardly thank you enough for tho very kind and
timely offer OF the United States government made
through you thank you kindly Your recovery Is
graat pleasure 10 me. EMMA