The national Republican., 1867-04-06
Departmental.

CoUNTERPEITERs ARRESTED THEIR MA
CHIHBRr CAPruRnD.-The officers Of the secret ser
vice division Of the Treasury Department succeeded
In arresting eight notorious countereites and cap.
turing large amount Of machinery, plates, coun.
terfsit notes, 30, In New York city, on Monday
last. magnificent lathe, used for making the
plates, which was imported from England at cost
OF SIS, 900, together with number Of counterfeit
plates, and over one hundred thousand dollars In
counterfeit money, consisting Of fractional currency
-$5, $40, $40 and $50 notes-were secured. They
also secured press used for printing the notes,
and arrested I3 members Of the gang In the north
orn part Of New York. This Is portion Of tho
notorious simm's gang, and the oounterfeits pro.
duced BY them are said to be very good and cannot
easily be distinguished from the genuine notes
The lathe which was captured is splendid piece Of
machinery, there being none others like II In this
country except those used at the Treasury Depart
ment. Those who were arrested are held for q
hearing In New York, and the captured machinery,
with the notes, plates, &C., were brought to tho
Treasury Department.
/ ArPLIcArIovs FOR PARDoS.-AmOny the aapPli-
cations for pardon now on file with Major r. U.
stitt pardon clerk In the Attorney Generals Office,
are 81 from ex. United States navy officers. Tho
naval service seems to have been tho favorto with
the Y. r. VS., no less than So out Of the OF being
from Virginia. or the others are from South
Carolina, Q from North Carolina, from Georgia, Q
from Maryland, 4 from Mississippi, from Ala
bama, from Louisiana, from the District Of Co.
lumbia, l from Texas, from New York, and
from Nova Scotia. Major Stitt Is kept busily en-.
ployed In having the list Of pardoned ones prepared
for the House Of Representatives, called for by
their resolution some time since. A large number
Of applications for pardon Of criminals are also
6le In the office.
ARMY 0RDERs.-Brevet Brig. Gen. M. D. Har.
din, major 43d Infantry, leave for one year from
June I, with permission to 60 beyond sea. Capt
q. d. Lauaer, A: Q. M, granted Ave days delay
in reporting to the Commanding 0Hheer and Chief
Quartermaster Department Of Missouri. Brevet
Major s. @. Greene, 24th Infantry, ordered to 70.
port to Gen. Pope. Brevet Maj. Gen. CIV. Getty,
colonel 37th Infantry, ordered to report to Gen.
Sherman Brevet Maj. Gen. A. Pleasanton, major
I'd Cavalry, leave further extended six months.
Brevet Lieut.. Col. f. W. Sohaurte, I'd Cavalry, or
dered to join his company at Fort Laramie. Capt.
| V. Van Antwerp, Military Storekeeper Quarter
masters Department, assigned to duty at San An.
tonic Texas.
AID PoR THE FREEDNES.-Major General o. O..
Howard Is about to issue a circular to the agents
Of the Freedmen's Bureau In the South relative to
the distribution among the destitute freedmen Of
provisions, to bo paid out Of the $500, 900 appro.
priatsd by Congress, and approved March 80, 1867,
| rs o special fund for the relief Of the destitute
freedmen In the Southern and Southwestern States
The relief given by this fund will consist Of one
bushel Of corn and eight ounces Of meat per month
for each adult person, and one half the abov'
amount Of corn and meat for each child between
one and fourteen years Of age.
RECEIPTS FROM CUsroNs.-The receipts frou
customs at the ports below named from March 2:
%, 500, ,9s9. 49, Philadelphia, $74 97o.44; Balti
more, Sll9, 767sli New Orleans March 10 to 49,
sos, ,63T78 San Francisco, February % to 2S,
Sis, ,4l8.7I. Total, 81, ,907, ,689.10.