New-York tribune., 1870-02-04
THE PRINTING coNTRACTs-THE CASE OF FRASER
TRENHOLM & co.
lGENERAL PRESS DIsPArCMI

GENERAL PRESS DISPAfCHI
The ioint Committee Printing has awarded the con
tracts for supplying paper for the Government printing
Office for the ensuing year. as follows; ,,,...
pound is ents pound to Nu,a Ps5er
ps PS.dpba; 500 reams at IS is ees, per poand Ch.
Ncsge Philadelphia aud 1900 Is 61' eea' pound
Gs., csnd printing 1900 EsaH' =. Is ''i'' cents
c sGpsr1os and 'essa:I's printing g'0, s% rs''
Class 4Map paper 1000 reams at 10 ces's per Doald Campbell
be. g' T "'S Gs EsapSs ppSSs ' ''"' = cents yer ''''
Glass 6-COored ThagPaDe SS am at 2 sesi' Per 7SGnd 10 %
pound s0 20 ioOO cents pound to wne"hsb'
Gas, fsper M Pos,o9ee blanks: 800 a. IS 2soo cent
pe Jound IS {luO poun 10 W H. Hol
nau Baltimore 10 ISh cents pound A. D.
C.. s"SIea and eale1ered tinted printing papers 200
Il s.lO cents per pound. to ;. u. Warren, Boston
Three years ago the Government made an agreement
with Fraser Trenholm Co. in settlement for the effects
they had hand agents OF the late Confederate states
and which claimed by the United states as puDllc
property This agreement, II cOusunimated by the
agents would have placed ia the Treasury half million
dollars in gold, An agent Of these parties Is now IN TINS
induce the Government to compromise the matter
by taking their pronssory notes for 10000 III currency
and dlsmissng all legal proceedings against t9t potn
said. several million dollars worth, OF landed estate III
South Carolina, ali Of which is under injunction by order
OF the Court to satisfy the claim VI tue Government
The President to-day signed the bill authorizing the
Passport Clerk of the state Department 10 administer the
Breyet MajorGen. A. Ii. Terry has been directed to
proceed TO this city public business, upon the compile
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the following
circular instructions relative 10 the disposition Of the pro
ceeds of sales OF property belonging to the Treasury De-
partment: ---.-.- -.
receiving money the proceeds Of sales Of property belong
hereby decte 10 deposit hs sae
In the Treasuy the Treasurer oi toe UHri Sls
receipts derived from sales OF property beopg 10 We
where ueh pOets are spe'
cay deposited applied some otnf accounts
all taxing TIE usual evfNste oi 9e
pos original b. brst mail TO the Secretary OF 'he Treas
Of the speae source Nhence s money sA ae
such sales and deposit 10 the proper eoaHuhs
ohcer without delay. -, -,-,-- -
of Steamboats, Of the United States, when
has been In session In this city during the past week. ad
iourned last night after revision OF the existing steam
boat laws and preparing the draft OF bill designed 10
serve as codIfcation Of all the provisions which they
deem best calculated insure safety TO life aud property
on board OF vessels propelled BY steam. lhls BIZ has
been submitted TO the Secretary OF the Treasury Tor MS
consideration and IL is believed that he Will recommend
its enactment by Congress.
Gov Campbell OF Wyoming Territory was before the
Senate Committee Indian Affairs to-day, endeayorinS
10 procure modification Of the treaty with the sioux
Indians so that they may bo removed from the lands
they now occupy, embracing about oneiourth 0t tAe
Territory. -, O
An interesting case will soon come before the u g.
Supreme Court-John Edgar Thompson and others agt
The Kansas Pacific Railroad. IL involves the tght Oh
the State OF Kansas TO tax the Pacinc Railroad judge
Asher Is counsel for the road.