New-York tribune., 1867-09-30
WASHING TON.
COL MEssMoRE NOT TO REsIGN-A BE2UEsr or
$4,000 TO THE GOyERNMENT-AMERICAN
SECURITIES ABROAD-BOGY.
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COL MFssMoRE NOT TO REsIGN-A BE9UEsT or
$4,000 TO THE GoyERNMENT-AMERIcAN
SECURITIES ABR0AD-B0GY.
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WASHINGTON. Sept. %, 1867.
Col Messmore of the Metropolitan Revenue Board
has gone home and it is understood that he will re-
main in his position. The excitement in the matter
has not vet subsided, however. Wisewell, who 1t
was expected would succeed TO Messmore's place. is
still here. and f. +. Woodbridge, Member of Con-
gress from New-York who is said 10 be WisewelPs
principal backer arrived to-day. 1t Is Thought thas
a further pressure will be brought against Col Mess
more but is not likely to alter the decision already
arrived at
The Secretary of the Treasury has received noti-
caton from the executors of the last VIII ana tes'a
ment of Can't. Ralph s. Fritz, late of San Francisco.
that said testator has left TO the United States the
sum of 10000 IN trust TO be applied toward cancel
ing the national debt. The executors express the
hope that this legacy may be but the forerunner of
numerous similar exhibitions of patriotism by other
men, The Captain says in his will that he has been
greatly blessed that he has an undying attachment
10 the Government, the best one that man has ever
been permitted 10 enjoy and that rs he was too old
70 render service in the field to put down and punish
the great crime of rebellion, he feels II to be his duty
TO contribute toward the payment OF the DEBT IN
Cured in that patriotic work.
The terms agreed upon for the settlement OF the
| business between the United States and Frazier.
| Trenholm X Co., perfectly satisfactory To MS
| Government The defendants by counsel aeknowl-
edged the principles of public law claimed by the
Government and provide for securing to 1t all tho
property TO which il is entitled on these principles
| Further action however, will be necessary to the
consummation of the terms through the Courts Oh
| Great Britain and the United States.
| -. IL ffnfr fn no T.
mept of State. says that leading nancicr OF that
city remarks rather strikingly that the uneeasihs
demand for American securities is easily explained
by the circumstances that the United States are max
inc an advantageous exception from all the States OF
reduced currency. for while the latter obliged TO
cover deficiencies by the contracting of new loans
| uuder more and more onerous conditions and arc
| thereby more and more embarrassing their finances.
the limited States are successfully working Tor re-
ducton of their public debt and circulation OF tho
same by paving OFT their obligations at short Ma-
| turity .,
| o;ac,ad nv the Senate as Commissioner of Indian
| Affairs and subsequently, appointed an Indian Agent
nv Secretary Browning, is in the city. He has been
| made a member of the Kitchen Cabinet at the White
House and spends most of his time with the Pres-
dent Ii is ntimated by Bogys friends that he is tn
| 90 into the Cabinet when the grand contemplated
coup deidt comes.
The President has appointed the following gentle
men as Government Directors of tho Union Pacific
Railroad: Jesse L. Williams of Indiana, Timothy
Carter of Illinois, James 5. Rollins of Mississippi and
George Ashman of Massachusetts.
Gen. Slocum of New-Yorl and Gen. Forrest of Ten
nessee are in the city. Gen. Slocum is said to be a
candidate for Cacots late office. Gen. Forrest has
been on n visit IN the North