The New York herald., 1869-03-14

I $500. 700. Treasurer Spinner holds ih trust for
the national banks ~ security for circulation
$342. .067 900. and for public deposits. t32 o0e go
National bank notes issued during the week
si4Seoo total TO date ssla 900 9so; mutilated bik
returned. tI2272oo2; notes OF insolvent banks 70
deemed, Sl,o2s. 221; actual circulation at this date
t2os o0i s23; fractional currency redeemed and de-
stroyed during the week. s759,5oo.
Changes In the IudIan Policy.
The name OF Colonel Parker. formerly OF General
Grants stan. has been frequently mentioned
In connection with the once OF Commits
stoner OF Indian Afairs. In reply TO Q
western Senator who was urging Parker's
appointment. the President said that there was but
ono obstacle in the way and that was that Colonel
Parker being an Indian was not citizen OF the
United States and on that account he doubted his
eligibility for the ONCE. He added that he had got
into one scrspe about appointing . man who was
Ineligible to en- once IA. T. Stewar and no did not
propose to repeat the mistake General Sanborn, .
member OF the Indian Peace Commission, and man
who has had considerable experience among the
Indians. IL being pressed for Commissioner OF Indian
anAirs. He IL violently opposed. however, BY the
Senators from the extreme West who urge Grant to
appoint a man who has had no previous connection
with the Indians the Indian Department The
President has informed these Senators that is hts
purpose az far as he can to make thorough reform
In the management Of Indian AFFAIRS. He says that
his own experience well a. the united testimony
OF Generals Sherman and Sheridan has convinced
him that radical change ought TO be made In the
Indian policy Of rhe government.
Dinner TO General Sheridan.
Brevet Major General william H. Emory enter
tained Lieutenant General Sheridan, Surgeon Gen.
eral Barnes Montgomery Blair. J. Schuyler Crosby.
aid-de-camp te the Lieutenant General and few
ladies at his residence this evening. The evening
was passed in conversation and terminated IN an
excellent SUPPER in which the choicest preparation
Of terrapn was not the least inviting OF the deli
cacies.
Dinner 20 General UIlmnn.
The officers OF Ulman's brigade the first organiza-
on OF colored troops the late war; gave their old
commander, General Daniel Ullman, OF New York.
q supper tonight at walker's Among those present
were Colonel Charles Lowell. Speaker or the Louisi
ana House OF Representatives; Colonel Thomas L.
White, or Jackson Miss: Major j. A. Greeley, United
States Army; General w. 8. Mudgett, OF Louisiana:
Major General j. d. 8. Mann; Captains J. S. CLARKE,
B. w. Wheeler and others, OF Washington.
The Omcc Seeking Agony.
The applications to the Treasury and Post Ance
departments are overwhelming. The probability IS
that not in five hundred OF the applicants can be
satisfied.
COlOred Omce Seokor-P0y nO object.
General Butler to-day introduced to Secretary Bout
well colored man from New Orleans named J0u-
bert, and recommended him for appointment as AS
Of Internal Revenue in that city Joubert said
he did not desire the ONCE from pecuniary conside
raons but merely to test the disposition OF the party
in power as to the rights OF his race.
Appointment or Jail Warden.
General John s. Cr0cker was to-day appointed war
den OF the jail under the recent act OF Congress pac
ing the appointment In the Supreme Court Of the
District OF Columbia.
The SOnthern Railroads.
Thorough Investigation Is about bong ordered into
the accounts between the government and the
Southern railroads In the matter OF rolling stock
and material turned to them since the close OF
the var.