New-York tribune., 1868-11-10
PRICE FOUR GENTS.

posted % certificates furnished from the rolls
| to the Paymaster-General and others, t676Sl
| The force of clerks employed ia the omce
when Mr.. French was appointed Auditor IN 1901 was
Il. From that number the business steadily grew
until the number of clerks directly under tho orders
OF the Auditor amounted to 500 About 100 were dis
charged on the 1st of the present month, and tho
number remaining is $780, The Auditor. n his report,
andes to the reduction of the force in bis Bureau,
giving the causes, and says that further reduction
Will soon be rendered necessary by the decrease OF
work. He thinks that by the end Of the
next fiscal year, June go 1862 the routine
! duties Of the Office will not demand more than
two hundred capable clerks Allusion is made to the.
fact that in consequence of the Auditor having 10
authority to employ detective officers, and no funds
wherewith to investigate frauds and prosecute otep
ders he has been unable fully TO realize his hopes Il
that direction He reports that he has however, OBJ
tanned the return of about $4,000 paid on fraudulent
claims He therefore recommends that detective
force similar to that in the Pension Office may be
authorized by Congress for his Bureau, and asks
appropriation of 10000 for that object.
John Williams having declined the Office, the
President has appointed r. X. Byrd TO be Collector
of Internal Revenue for the lid District Of Pennsyl
vania.
Ex-Congressmen Creswel and Thomas Of Mary
land were here to-day, urging the appointment OF
Mr. c. c. Fulton for the position of Supervisor Of the
Maryland Internal Revenue District.
The friends of the Hon. Thomas j. Dnrant mem
tioning his among the representative kepubli-
of the South for position Ill President Grants
Cabinet.
Senator Morgan and District Attorney Tracy had a
long interview with Commissioner Rollins to-day, IN
regard to revenue matters.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs received 10
formation from La Paz, Arizona, today, OF the
Killing OF Coshackana head fhiei en- Of tne APaeSe
ersl of his followers. On the morning OF the 10Th OF
September 13 travellers assembled at La paz, and
armng themselves attacked the Apache Mohayes'
camps, and killed the chief These Indians belong
to the Colorado River Reservation just aboyo La
paz ana hsd 1S been IN town the SnrS aSy
professed friendship for the whites and been willing,
at all times, TO assist in recapturng property stolen
boring mountains On the person of the Chief were
found certain papers showing the estimation IN which
these Indians held by tho citizens in the vicinity
anything about the killing It is urged in extenna-
tion of the act that these Indians had killed q Mr..
Brown at Granite Gnlch had stolen mules from Buff
man and Chapman. near Wicketsburg and were re-
sponsibe for all the depredatons that have been com
mitted between La Paz and Prescott.
shawnees, 1s ouapaSs, PsSrias, KaskasEias ,Weas,'
dottes 1t provides that portions of those tribes shall
from Kansas 10 other lands reservations III
the Indian conntry south of that state, while other
| portions will dissolve their tribal relations and
become citizens. The United States will give
such compensation as Is perfectly satisfactory to tie
| Indians
The Secretary Of the Treasury has decided that
manufactured tobacco. snuff, and cigars, imported
from foreign countries are not required to have n
ternal Revenue stamps affixed thereto and Cancelled
unless said articles are withdrawn from tho Custom
House for consumption or sale IN tho United States
| The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided
that dealers in liquors making their returns OF
distilled spirits hand, are required to draw ot
into regular barrels what at the time may be in ther
stand casks so that il may be gauged and stamped.
| Appointments have been made as follows:
Gdugcs-Davd X. Risley and Julius Change for First
Missouri: j. r. Hoy A. B. Smith, and L. W. Mixer First
Illinois, George Gieher. Twenty first Pennsyvana John
ii. Roberts, TwentysecOnd Pennsylvania; Wm. NJ. Rus
sell, Fourth Ohio. SioTtkepos-St Car sutherland
First Illinois; Humphrey Best Eighth Kentucky Jobl
Quinn. Third Pennsylvania; william Bucks aud Grant