New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-14

lie sketches his plan in detail and suggests that it
be submitted to Congress. The report closes with
tables showing the number and rank Of officers in tho
Adjutant- Generals Department.
The following is a summary Of United States notes
and currency in circulation, and in the Government
offices at the close of business in the Treasury Office
on Tuesday Nov TO- 1865. The seventeen millions in
compound-interest notes have been nearly all re-
deemed, but the exact amount outstanding is not
known at this time.
L. s. Notes old ssue..-................. S3S23 IS
L 5. Notes, new lssue-..-.--....--. Soo'55i's9 w
dosat - :; ~ S5S On
one year Five per cent NOtes............ 295lT %
Two years Eve per cent Coupon Notes % 90
Total Five per cent Notes 4oG4O2 20
Fractional Currency second issue. 49,. 9,725O21 %
Fractional Currency third lssue........ 21lG909 tt
Total Fractional Currency a3''tt''J ~
Total Notes and Currency outstanding. iW0Jo,m II
Several DAYS ago application was made to a respect
able Northern banker by certain persons for pecu-
mary assistance in speculation which promised
handsome returns. The applicants represented that
they had facilities extending to the Departments
here whereby they were enabled TO buy claims OF
colored soldiers sailors. and Marines living IN tho
Southern States, for bounty back pay, and prize
money Tor less than half Of the amount Of the
claims. payment IN all cases being assured
by the information furnished through the
south and the Departments in this city.
The course which these claim agents pursue is TO as
certain when payment is TO be made and to commu-
nIcate with the claimant or sec him personally be-
fore notice can reach him from the Department, and
by representing that his claim is uncertain. that
payment is to be long DELAYED they effect purchase
AT half value or on the best terms possible, IN some
instances AZ a quarter value of the face Collision
with dishonest agents of the Freedmens Bureau
enables these fellows TO obtain money on
powers of attorney. The swindlers rep
resented that their arrangements were com
plete and that they had already moro than
doubled their money. promising the same advantages
10 tho banker if lie would advance the money to ena-
BILE them TO extend their field Of operations. When
il is made known that the amount OF money accord
ing 10 Gen. Towards report paid TO colored people IN
the South during the past year, on account OF
bounties, &C., through the Freedmen's Bureau,
reached the vast sum Of $4,000 some conception
may be obtained of tho enormity of the fraud.
The Public Printer is overrun with letters and
personal applications for work in the Government
Printng-Odice, owing, doubtless to the fact that
higher wages are paid in that establishment than in
the principal Northern cities. TO save trouble and
expense to all concerned it should be made generally
known that printers and binders employed sufi-
Gent to do the work of the Government and that it
is waste of time to make application for employment
in that establishment
Judge GOOding, United States Marshal for this Dis
trict has returned from his thankess campaign trip
in Indiana i'll favor of Seymour and Blair and is pre-
pairing TO surrender his Office into Republican hands
OH the 4th Of March.
Late New Orleans newspapers say that since the
election, business is improving and that the pros
poets for a lively season are promising 1t is an
nounced that about 10000 bales of cotton have been
| received at that port against 10000 at the same
period last year. One of the New-Oreans journals
adds:
This cotton sells readily at about shopper bale, which
two and half times much cotton commanded be
fore Thus, II receive this 800 900 bales
money value Will exceed that OF the two millions
which came 10 city in the antebelum times. In
other words there will be sOO0OOOo which must change
hands in the transactions this single product Of
soil The diffusion Of this or at least large portion Of IT.
among the various trades must give stimulus
dependency which have long hung over commercial cir
cles But beside the cotton, our cane crop which e1-
elusvely own State, must add some twelve mil
lions % amount OF products which VIII be brought TO
this market. The cane has turned out we'll and Is now
got hack old boast OF our planters OF two hogs
heads 70 the acre AN our I5ee tSo rSea stSpes
We trust TO add largely Increased receipts OF
grain tobacco and polk mo Sp no rene 10 an
couraged in regard TO the present season III
We anticipate indeed, great HE, al ao''o "auc' anu
plethora OF money In our CITY
Our Consul at Malaga informs the State Depart
ment that royal decree emanating from the Minis
ter Of Finance makes an important change IN the
port dues of both national and foreign vessels enter
ing the ports of that Peninsula and adjacent Islands
Anchorage and light dues which have hitherto Deen
| levied on the tun of measurement are now e1aeted
on the kolitre through which innovation those dues
| have been increased by about SO per cent, ana as
American vessels trading at Malaga are on an aver
age OF much larger tunnage than those oi othc, ma
tiOns. this new regulation will fall very heavily on
| them.
Appointments have been made as follows:
Gaugers-Wm. Dictrecht, W. A. Sands John A. Bate
man, Eighth Pennsylvania; Jacob Ref Fourth Indiana
jas. r. Brand, Fourth OHIO Robert Campbell, r. Bner,
Utah. }. g. Bub0r j. A. label William NJ. Brown. g. W.
/ gI,t Elref Hmm