Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-03

From special kilograms from Washing
ton on the 29th ult, we take the following
items on topics of the most general and eI-
citing interest:
THE PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.
The public debt statement for November
will not be ready until the middle Of next
week, and will show some increase, but the
Secretary thinks that the reduction in Des
cember will oyerbalance the present in
crease. He has been urged not TO make
any contraction this month, but sees no
reason why he should comply, and it is ex-
tremely probable he will withdraw four
millions.
MR.. MoRRILL's BILL.
Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont, introduced in
the Senate to-day bill to raise the value
of legal tender notes to par. 1t provides
that on and after July 4, 1859, that the
Secretary of the Treasury shall pay in coin
all its notes not hearing interest and COM
monty called legal tenders, and that here
after, and until January, 1889, whenever
there shall be in the Treasury, after paying
the interest and coupons falling due in
January and July Of each year, and de-
ducting the gold certificates ON deposit, any
excess OF coin over 100000 shall, with
in thirty days, be sold, and there shall be
received in payment therefor United States
notes, compound interest notes and three
per cent. certificates. All National Banks
are required to pay after July 4, 1869,
their notes in coin, on pain Of forfeiture of
charter. All National Banks having less
than twenty per cent. in specie of their re-
spective capitals, must keep and hold in
coin all interest reservation funds deposited
by them.
F. F. DUNBAR BEFORE THE RETRENCHMENT
COMMITTEE.
Edward F. Dunbar, whose arrest was
ordered by the Senate, appeared before the
Retrenchment Committee to-day and dis
closed source of information respecting
Treasury matters, which were printed in
the New York Globe. The denouement
was startling to the Radicals. He stated
that most of his information was derived
from Secretary McCulloch himself when
he was Comptroller of Currency. The
Secretary then thought the Printing Bureau
was invested with dangers and corrupting
tendencies. Dunbar says the Secretary
once notified Secretary Chase that he would
tender his resignation if he attempted TO
throw on him the responsibility of the
management of said Printing Bureau.
These views of McCnlloch remained un-
changed.
Dunbar says until after he became head
of the Department, during the time prior,
that he even had frequent conversations
with the witness, and denounced the clerk
of that Bureau as totally unworthy conf
dence, but his principle and most prolific
source of information, he says, was the
Pomeroy- Chase Committee, a political ring
into which Dunbar was initiated, and from
which he procured startling facts Of NAL
administration in the Treasury Department.
When Dunbar reached this point of his
testimony the Radicals on the committee
Immediately changed their offensive de-
meanor, and treated him SO politely that
they reported to the Senate resolution
relieving Dunbar from arrest, and it was
passed forthwith. The developments were
unexpected, but rich.
IMPEACHMENT.
/ Impeachment has not lost its interest, as
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