Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-09-16

W0ohAA8tO0 Items
Commissioners Delano leaves Wash
ington to-day, for brief absence in Ohio.
Colonel Capron, Commissioner Of Ag-
riculture, leaves Washington to-day, to
attend the New York State Fair at FL
mira.
Assistant Attorney General Field
yesterday received check for e170, pay
able to the order of the President, from
the Collector Of Mobile, a. . contribution
to the Rawlins Fund, FROM the Govern
ment officers in that city.
The Treasury Department has deci-
ded to destroy by the melting process all
the counterfeit plates which have been
captured by the Treasury detectives since
the Government began to issue money,
and which now exceed one hundred in
number. Not less than eight very fine
plates have been captured within the past
three months. Two or three will DO pre-
served as specimens.
In connection with the recent refusal
of Governor Hoffman to become q party
to the alleged movement to defeat the ra-
LITIGATION of the Fifteenth Amendment,
allusion to which was made few days
since, the following facts should be stat
ed: On ascertaining that the certified re-
solutions Of ratification of the Legislature
of New York were not on file. the Secre-
tary of State addressed a note to Governor
Hoffman, requesting him to forward
them. To this he replied promptly, trans
hitting the certified copies of the reso-
buttons as passed by the respective
Houses. 1t should be added that the
Legislature was remiss in failing to in
struct either the Governor or the Secre-
tary of State to transmit certified copies
of the resolutions to the State Depart
ment, and that therefore the Governor
was not remiss in duty because he failed
to do 80. The evidence of ratification is
now on file in the Department.
"A queer case has been submitted to
General Spinner, United States Treasur-
er, for an opinion. It seems that q litiga-
ton is going on in one of the Prussian
Courts, where the question of considera-
tion turns upon the genuiness of certain
Confederate Treasury notes. One party
holds that they are counterfeit, while the
other maintains that they are genuine,
and, therefore, consideration according
to the terms of the contract. A specimen
of the notes has been submitted to Gen.
Spinner through Baron Gerolt, the North
German Ambassador, for a decision as to
whether they are genuine or not. He is
of the opinion that the specimen submit
ted Is genuine issue of the Confederate
Treasury, but he declines to have bis
opinion considered as evidence in tho mat
ter. The question now arises. who can
give competent evidence of the genuiness
of these notes, and, if genuine, what is
their market value in Germanyp
Some time ago the Danville, Lancas-
ter and Nicholas Turnpike Railroad Com
pany, of Kentucky, presented . claim
against the Government for $313,0O0 for
the use of their road by the armies of the
United States during the rebellion. Of
this claim the validity of $276, 900 was es-
tablished to the satisfaction Of the Quar-
termasters Department, and in accor-
dance with the rule of the War Depart
meaA one-half of this sum, or fifty per
cent. of the usual tolls, was allowed and
paid. The recent claim of the Company
was for the difference between this
amount and the total of the bill, as origi-
nally presented. The question was sub
mit,ed to the Attorney General for an
opinion, which has just been given. The
closing sentences Of the opinion are as fol-
lows:
"This is substantially claim to be paid
for damages to real property, caused sy
the operations of the war, and if the &C.
counting officer should be of the opinion
that the Company has not already receiv-
ed full compensation therefor, yet do
not think he is authorized by existing
laws to allow any part of the claim.
Clairsa OF this character, when just COM
psnsation has not been already made,
must be addressed to Congress to be dealt
with as on considerations of public duty
and public policy it thinks best"