The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-07
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Special Dispatches to The EUening Telegraph.
WAsHNGToN, May 4.
The Pay Deps rtment OF the Navy.

Special Dispatches 10 The EUeniR0 Telegraph
WASHINGTON, May Z.
The Pay Deps rtment OF the Navy.
The President has approved the bill providing
that the active list of the pay corps of the navy
shall consist of so paymasters, 40 passed assist.
ant paymasters, and 80 assistant paymasters.
Paymasters shall be regularly promoted and
commissioned from passed assistant paymasters
and passed assistant paymasters from assistant
paymasters, and all passed assistant paymasters
authorized by this act to be appointed who have
not heretofore been appointed and commissioned
as assistant paymasters, and all assistant pay
masters hereby authorized to be appointed shall
be selected from those who have served as
acting assistant paymasters for the term of one
year, and who were eligible to appointment in
the grade of assistant paymasters, when they
we're appointed acting assistant paymasters as
aforesaid; subject, however, to such examlna-
tions as are required by law, and such as may
be established by the Secretary of the Navy.
Passed assistant paymasters shall give bonds for
the faithful performance of their duties in the
sum OF SIS 900, and that their annual pay shall
be, at sea, $500; on other duty, 14OO; on leave
or waiting ORDERS $1,000.
The Thanks or Congress.
The President has approved the Joint resolu-
ton declaring that it is his duty and the privi-
lege of Congress, to express the gratitude of the
nation to the officers soldiers and seamen of the
United States by whose valor and endurance on
land and sea, the Rebellion has been crushed, and
its power and pride humbled; by whose fidelity to
the cause of freedom the Government of the
people has been preserved and maintained, and
by whose orderly return from the fire aud blood
of civil war to the peaceful pursuits of private
lite the exaltlng and ennobling influence of
free institutions upon nation has been so Sig
nally manifested to the world.
Reconstructed Newspaper.
The Vicksburg Herald, which has a special
contract with the State Department for print
ing the United States laws passed during the
last five years. and for which they receive seve-
raj thousand dollars, informs its readers in an
editorial that the laws of this Congress must
be held to be of no binding force. The same
paper contains a notice of Governor Hum
phreys, that all Confederate and State soldiers
who are disabled, destitute, or need relief, will
be cared for by forwarding their names to him.
COlored Union troops get such treatment as was
recently exhibited at Memphis, where their
schools and churches were burned, and over
forty murdered.
Statement Corrected.
Several correspondents have wrongly attri.
buted, through the journals with which they
are connected, crminality and blame to Colonel
E. E. Paulding, of the Paymaster-Generals Blu
reau, as having been instrumental in placing the
large amount (variously stated at from $5OO,OOO
to S7OO,OOO) in the Merchants National Bank of
Washington, D. c., which so recently col
lapsed. The facts are, as we learn from
a source entirely reliable, that the Trea-
surer of the United States has ordered all
paymasters where drafts are drawn on a Ma
tional Bank or Repository to allow the balance
over the amount actually expended by pay
msnts to be retained and not disturbed
Although this custom is believed to be entirely
contrary to law, yet it has been the universal
rule since the establishment of the National
Banks.