New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-21

The usual meeting of the Cabinet was held to-u~y
all the members present except Postmaster
Randall No visitors were received by inc aeSiu0
until afternoon. ..o,
The Message is completed so far as ''s Seno a'
features are concerned and the Presideh' oouiu
his signature at once if the Department Reports "'io
IN bis hands. ,, t
The War Donartmept received the annual report
.,C,on Meade TO-DAY The reports OF military com
xnanders are all in with the single exception Oh lhaV
of Gen. Rousseau, commanding the thth Military
District. An of these reports contain interesting
matters in relation to the working OF the Recon
struction acts in the different States.
The claims for back pay and bounty and Tor the
additional bounty to soldiers under the act OF 1900
have been so nearly exhausted by the DIVISION OF
Referred Claims in the Paymaster Generals Office
that it il expected the additional paymasters en-
xaeea on these claims will be mustered out OF service
ON the 1st of January next, and the Division aOoi-
Sshed Out of the $500 claims for additional bounty
semaining to be adudicated COCO are ready Tor seq
Element only waiting for the soldiers receipts on
voucher No of the Department. Soldiers having
claims Of this nature are advised to sign the necessa
~ receipts and transmit them to Col Gibson VINO
will at once dispose of their accounts. Forms may
be obtained by addressing Paymaster Gibson OF the
Paymaster General, in this city.
Secretary McCulloch ordered the dismissal, to-day
Of twelve persons in the employ of the Collector OF
Philadelphia, mentioning their names; whereuPon
Collector Casee replied that whatever special
AGENT might suggest in the way of retrenchment
might be well enough, but that he had no right TO
select the men to be dismissed. The Collector there
npon made his choice, aud forwarded to the Sec
Ietary list of the names Of the Victims remarklng
that he had dispensed with the services of the least
efficient men Of his force while the Secretarys list
required the decapitatiOn of his best Mr.. Casee
tool Attorney
Brewster like conflict of authority occurred under
President Van Burens administration, and the de-
cision was in favor of the Collector.
Senator Edmunds Of the Joint Retrenchment
Committee of Congress is here, examining into the
affairs of the Printing Bureau lie is the only mem
Der of the Committee in town, and until other
members arrive nothing definite can be DONE
Eighteen feminine employees in the Printing Di-
vision at the Treasury have been dismissed, and ~
furloughed. on account Of the decrease of work in
that Division which is caused by the withdrawal of
the printing of tobacco cigar and snuff stamps-the
new Revenue law requiring that the work of print
ing the should be given to the lowest bidder;
hence the work of making such stamps is now done
by the Continental Bank Note Company of New
York, under contract.
The amount of fractional currency daily printed
at the Treasury Department is between 10000 and
100000 which is rapidly forwarded TO the various
throughout the country to fill acquisitions made by
them on the Department.
The Commissioner of Education, Of whose cOntro
versy with the President something said in
these dispatches of yesterdays date win go out of
Office on the last day of next June under the act
tablishing an Office of Education whose chief officer
IL 10 be paid 5000 year.
The Secretary of State directs the payment OF
a2 900 per annum to all those cOnsus who collect fees
- on0 a,A rhnca ANNA GAL 90
under the old schedule not over $500 per an
num- Only $500 per annum is allowed for the e1-
penses of any vice consular agency.
Gov Geary has thrown upon the House OF the
xIIst Congress the responsibility OF deciding
whether John Covode OF his Democratic competitor,
Mr. Foster was elected in the Twenty-first District
of Pennsylvania.
f. o. Perrin, U. g. Revenue Agent, having been
elected 10 the Clerkship of the New-York Court OF
Appeals has sent his resignation to Commissioner
Rollins He remarks that he stumped Maine for Sey-
roour and it went $1,000 for Grant. He thinks, had
he stumped it twice it would have gone unanimously
for Grant.
The small Nautical Almanac for 1871 is nearly
ready for distribution, and the large Almanac is IN
the printers hands at the Government Office, to be
finished in March OF April The Superintendent Of
the Coast Survey has prepared for publication
specimen chart TO DO printed in colors. showing the
land. water nights &c. This is an advance step IN
the publication of charts; and although il is more
expensive than the old method 1t possesses advan-
faoes The eodifcaton of the Statutes of the United
States il virtually at dead lock- and it Is now very
evident why Gen. Cushing resigned last year.
reconstruction of the Board of Commissioners Is in
evitable
Henry sommers late Captain Of the ID u. s. In
fantry. had helri g this morning in this city for
forgery and held 10 bail in $1,000 The prisoner 1t
Is charged forged the of an Assistant Quarter
master General to two drafts on U. S. Depository,
amounting to about $780, The arrest was made in
WILLIAMSBURG, ~ Y, on Wednesday last, and the
prisOner arrived here to-day.
Speaker Colfax and wife will visit his relatives in
Eew-York next week.
The Committee that was appointed by the en- pdrte
Council of the First Congregational Church OF wash
inston adopted resolution, this afternoon, review
ang the difficulties and opposing dissolution OF the
pastoral relations, and recommending the minority
10 await the action Of the mutual Council in January
This decision sustains the Rev DR.. Boynton and
majority Of the church.
Commissioner Rollins writes TO an Ohio Assessor
- follows;
The term "breadstuas" is held to apply 70 -four meal,
phorts &c. made from corn, wheat rye ana Other
bakers. The term manufactured lumber" Is held 70
apply 70 lumber the rough leaves the saw ncnd
which il paned tongued grooved or otherwise dressed
10 not regarded a. manufactured but IL Subject nm
der the eooyenamed set TO tar on sales IN excess OF
The prescribed in section 81 Of tho Spirits
who had not exceeded 20 gallons OF Distilled spirits bs
possession for sae the LIST day Of November 1868 In
case OF seizure however the burden OF proof rests upon
the claimant a. In section s. And 70 avoid the trouble
70 al parties consequent upon the detention passi9e
under section Al, or forfeiture after 30 days, uLoer
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