Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-14
Later of the Chinese Massacre
WASHINGTON
Currency Balances.

WASHINGTON. Aug. I3.-The currency
balance to-day was $4,012, $50, ,658; coin
balance sos, ,019, ,504. so; coin certificates
S35. 915. 900. Internal revenue receipts to-
dav S611, ,521; receipts for the fiscal year
to date S31, ,2O9, ,694.
The Political SituatiOn-EncOur-
aging Reports.
The Democratic Executive Committee is
more efficiently organized, and is doing
more work than any resident COMMITTEES of
the last eight years. Its two rooms at the
capitol are filed with clerks, messengers
and others, engaged in answering letters,
distributing documents and attending to
other details of the impending campaign.
The committee is receiving answers to its
request for the names ofDemocratic nomi-
nees for Congress, and State and local
committees, but hopes that all will be for
warded without further delay. Adyices
from all parts of the country, even from
Maine, we're never more fiatterinQ. The
prospects are excellent that q Democratic
member will be elected IN the Portland dis
trict of that State.
From the South letters indicate that the
msjorities will be greater than in North
Carolina. Alabama and Georgia Conser-
NodfOo HAloo LAldL 1u61 1O AOt DolloNo JuS
Republicans will elect more than two men,
bers of Congress out of both delegations.
From Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York
the news is more encouraging, and New
Jersey promises full Democratic delega-
ton for the Forty-second House.
The address of the Democratic State
Committee of Texas arrived to-day, and its
arraignment of the Radical rule in that
N.Na q. ! II
comes up fully if it does not exceed that of
North Carolina.
DefauItIng PaymaSterS.
The accounts Of paymasters in the
United States Navy have, during several
months past, been undergoing, in the Office
of the Fourth Auditor, the severest scru-
tiny, and the result has been the discovery
of embezzlements, commonly called def
ciencies, amounting to hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. The settlement of Pay
masters accounts is very slow process,
and although many were discovered a long
time ago, thus far no legal means have
been taken by the law officers of the Gov
eminent, but it is learned that prosecutions
are to be begun at once, the suits to be en-
tered against the -Paymaster and his bonds
men. 1t will be remembered that Judge
Tabor, TIE Fourth Auditor, in his last re-
port, recommended that the bonds of pay
masters be increased SO as to indemnify
the Government to greater degree from
loss. The bonds required now never ex-
ceed twenty-five thousand dollars, while il
frequently happened that paymasters have
a hundred thousand dollars in their possess
sion. The following cases, with the amount
of deficiency set opposite each name, have
been placed in the hands of the Solicitor,
together with all the facts and documents
to enable that officer to begin suit:
B ] Cahoone, deficit %, 799.4l; Robert
Washington of Virginia, deficit two bonds,
one for i, ,914.55 and the other 16, 263 SO;
Emanuel Mellach, of New Jersey, deficit
%, 1O498; Washington Irving, of New
York, now insane, deficit AIS, sol SO, some
of which may hereafter be accounted for.
Thomas ] Dabney, deficit 5000; W G Mar
cy, of New Jersey, deficit about 120, 900; G
H Lockwood, of New York, whose case is
the most barefaced and fragrant of any ever
examined by the Fourth Auditor, deficit
$4,000. The Fourth Auditor, in addition
to placing these cases in the hands of the
Solicitor for prosecution, has asked that
some of them be brought to trial before a
court-martial Thus far, however, for
some cause, no court martial has been or
dered in any case, and the names of the
officers, with two EXCEPTIONS are on the
rolls Of the department. Their pay, how
ever, has been stopped.