The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-08
| OF dollars, from the carcass Of the poor,
slaughtered fbird of slavery"

OF dollars, from the carcass OF the poor,
slaughtered "bird of slavery"
STILL, ANOTHER AND ENORMOUS stBoNE TO P1oK.
But there is another bone Of the. Southern
carcass which is being picked olsan, and that
is the results Of the sales OF confiscated cotton
and other articles of Southern portable pro.
Dertv." as MIR. Wemmick would call it. The
ann g1r W derived from these sales, am credibly
informed, has, for the past two OF three years,
averaged between $4,000, 900 and $50, 900, 900;
that is. that amount Of money has been lying
on deposit to the credit Of that account as il
stands on the treasury books. But the money
has not been kept in the treasury. Such q
compliance with the law would be perfectly ab-
surd in this age, in which constitutional action
of officials in all positions is the exception not
the rule. Oh, mol it has been deposited with
Messrs. jaw, Cooke & Co. ever since the hal
cyon dsy Of Secretary Chase, and has consti-
tuted one Of the most splendid funds for pri-
yate banking purposes ever known in the his
torv of the world. At or 6 per cent. on cal,
the revenue from it would reach the very
princely sum OF $2,250, 900 or s2,700, 600 per
annum. Indeed, fear that, when the balance
that remained Of it really was called into the
treasury by Secretary McCulloch, few weeks
before the assembling Of Congress, the effect
upon the New York money market was most
terribly depressing, and lame ducks became
most unpleasantly frequent in the neighbor-
hood Of Wan-street and the stock exchange.
But this is not the only fund which the favor
ed bapkjng-house are allowed to WELD. They
are the depository also OF the navy fund. And il
was only comparatively short tme since that
the army fund was, by order OF Congress-, de-
posted in its proper place, the treasury Of the
United States.
The question is Who divides with these
private bankers The immense revenues derived
from these funds2
CAUSES OF poPE's REMOVAL.
A Washington dispatch to the Boston Post
ssys:
II ia known that the Executive had long con.
templated relieving General Pope Of his COM
mand, but I am permitted to state, as the
Immediate cause OF his removal, the following
facts which have been officially communicated
to the President: Under the State laws, the
census of Alabama Was taken IN 1856, showing
a population Of 10000 white males over the
age OF twenty-one years. and VI ,cU blacks. The
late registration, under General Pope's manip-
Nations. resulted in registering "a, 600 whites
and 9O. 600 blacks. The Bureau Constitution
is to be voted for on the 4th day Of February,
and. as already stated in this correspondence,
the negroes since the registration have become
very much scattered, owing to their long habit
Of changing homes at the beginning OF new
year. 10 counteract the effect OF this change
Of residence, General Pope issued an order that
any person offering to vote in any county
should be allowed to do go upon making affida-
Wit that his nar,e had been registered. This
order also provided that, fourteen days preced-
ing the election, the registrars throughout the
State should open their lists for revision, and
keep them open five days. A revision similar
to this was had preceding the election for dele
gates to the Convention. Afidayits are before
fhe President to the effect that large number
Of negroes under the age Of twenty lone were
permitted to register and vote, and unless Gen
eral Pope had been removed the same would
again be allowed.