New-York tribune., 1869-01-01
WASHINGTON.

crU pANnAIL AND THs CONTRACrORS-
i TIIr FREEDMEN's SAVINGS BANKS.
WASHINGTON Thursday, Dec 81. ie6s
Extensive preparations have been made by all the
,,ominent officials here to celebrate New pay
~ hoeo,,pg manner The President. the Cabinet
",.;Stsrs Chief. Justice Chase, Speaker Colfax and
nrmber of Congressman will hold receptions.
-. Chase. Speaker Colfax, and Senator Morgan
'..a hsre this evening from New York. The OFF,
~ :, ,he army in this city will assemble in uniform
a the War Department tomorrow, at III q. m" when
NJ nil, m in body to pay their respects to the
p.s;d.,t of the United States. They will form by
.-s. nd regiments in the order designated in the
- per;ste,. The senior officer of each corps will
., his own officers to the President The officers
- ro naval and marine corps will assemble at the
Navy Drpartment at II o. m., and go in o body to
nav their respects to the President ....eri
The subcommittee OF the House Judiciary Com
nitfee were in session to-day. and resumed the IN
vestigation Of the charges made by Henry C. Simple
against Judge Busteed The only witness examined
was VIM. p. Chiffon, formerly Judge OF the Supreme
Court of Alabama. Judge Busteed's friends from
Alabama are here in large force and confident OF
his acquittal upon every charge Judge Churchill
who is on the Sub COMMITTEES, has not arrived. Mr.
Wilson, Chairman of the Committee. rs present during
the investigation. The Subcommittee adjourned
untii Monday.
The Committee on Appropriations held another
meeting to-day. The Committee have progressed
much faster than has been reported, and on the re-
assembling Of Congress on the 9Th OF January will
have all of the appropriation bills finished except the
Indian They are unable to complete that, owing to
the unsettled condition Of Indian affairs.
Mr. Gallon of the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs, has been looking into the Cretan question
and the Cuban insurrecton. snd. 1t is understood
I.k.xx l,a
rassembling of Congress. |
Gen. Spinner has written q letter in reply to one |
received from the President of leading New-York |
Bank on the resumption of specie payments, in which
he says that the time for resumng ought not TO be
postponed beyond the 1st of January. 1871. report
was freely circulated to-day that the Judges Of the
Supreme Court had decided to declare the Legal |
Tender act unconstitutional On inquiry it is ascer-
tanned that no action has as yet been taken by the
Court on this important subject |
During the past few days several witnesses for tho
United States have been before the Grand jury at
the instance of the District Attorney the purpose be-
ing to give testimony which to base new indict
ment against John H. Surratt. Among the witnesses
examined were Brooke Stabler and the colored
woman, Susan Ann jackson.
The Agent of the Choctaw and Cherokee tribes
has written letter to the Commissioner of Indian
tribes were volunteers in the Union Army during the
war. and that some of them killed in Gen.
Custar's recent attack the village The Agent
adds that the tribes which be represents opposed
to the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War De-
partment and he expresses the belief that the killing
of the loyal Indians by Custar should be investigated
This being the last day of the official tenure of
statistical Delmar, Of the clerks in the Bureau
Of Statistics thought it Incumbent npon the office
that some expression of respect should follow the
firing officer He therefore prepared certificate |
setting forth the general good character of the late
Director. and recting his eminent usefulness
tain directions. The letter was handed around |
among the fifty clerks and four signatures OBJ
tanned The letter is to be forwarded as a New |
Years offering
President johnson made the recipient to-day |
of fine hickory cane cut from Lookout Mountain.
1t has gold head appropriately inscribed. |
Commissioner Harland has issued supplementary |
instructions concerning the collection of the on
distilled spirits in order to uniformity in the
monthly reports of Assessors Form No &c." The |
circular says: |
. disnliery the assessor viii, in The first place,
nsesrtan tai and dstsrm1e the quantity of materials
this the rule laid down in the law s that AZ gallons OF
Of grain. and gallons Of mash from molasses shall
represent not less than one gallon Of osses that
of grain. but may represent more the dister actual
iy makes but IS or 40 gallons o. mash from buse Of
The not concluded by the reports ds
M s o s
Having fonnd the quantity OF material used
be- accounted for from this quantity material anS
have more definite means OF determining this he
what quantity Of spirits bushel Of such matssi asd
should yield and calculate the product to be
for, or required production accordingly
The Ereaing Posfs correspondent here telegraphs
There bas been some discussion to-day about the
statement published yesterday by Postmaster General
Randall denying the recent charges that he had paid
postal service which performed In the face
Of this singular fact appears the Of
was paid upon an order Of br Randals after the Audi
had refused to allow the account and against the
said that no mails were ever carried over the
route. and certified that the affair an immense
pcndture of $4,000 per for carrying the mails to
Havana BY the baltimore Steamship Company when the
regular line would perform the for less than one
tenth OF that saying that this money paid carry
the mails to Key West the company agreeing drop
the mails at Havana Mr. Randall says that but for this
service Inhabitants Of Key West would be without the
malls altogether This explanation would probably be
last Mr. Randall made a contract with One J. X.
RoSer,s Of to run lime of s between
for which he paid 81 300 the round trip This contract
M RoSers s, e @ TO vi t reskas Go of on
err sscss four trips per mouth requiring AN OF
she Baltimore Steamship Line be true, the expense
o. carrying the mails to Key West amounts TO
,Seo per year against $500 $3.50 snpaasy nsto,S
s,s. sss sersios to Key West but 70 Havana
amounted to hundred and forty dollars and fifty
Left # a. sst s aid sCsa sCs s1eses
vice -Four theessnd dollars vas paid for tni, ser
attempted, wi, III prossby give those who make
snwmis,es opporsunity to testify before select