New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-28
extracts are given:
S2-n9-.1l5.415 30
Total. S.. 903. 7OO.sll %

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Total. s. 9O3,7COs1 % s3,Os7155,i76 80
Tho Government is in debt 2,216,5i5,335 49, The
following items, with the amounts affixed, shows how
this O0s % has been disposed Of since the fiscal
year commencing June 80, 1859: For the Executive,
s5GOOOO for the army and volunteers $liO632C6O "a
s2 900 OF this being expended in year. 1861 for
the quartermasters supplies, ordnance, engineers and
miscellaneous expenses OF the War Department and
the Army s2,liG77G,so6 So; for bounties from 1868
to 1870, s9s2Os,OoO; for the navy, Ss0,oi9081 %;
for pensions, sl3G,93i,l57 SO, about s2,l3O622 SO
OF this being expended before the Rebellion; for tho
Indians s392s5Ol7 49, for the interest on the public
debt s5 s50713 90 and OF this interest money S,l77
3I 62 expended in 1860 and 0OOl3 IS IN 1861; Tor
Congress, $50 9696i9 10; for public buildings, over $1,000
0O for the deficiencies in the postal
sl96 900 &c OF this being expended In lsGO Oji23 "A
in 1s6 and about $4,000 in 1870; for Improvement III
rivers and harbors nearly $4,000 900, nearly slOOoO OF
which has been expended since 1867; for foreign inter
course, over S4OO0OOO, the s7,2Oo,OOo for Alaska
being counted in this for the expenses OF collecting The
customs $525si sls3 for the expenses OF col
Letting the internal revenues since 1866 s9GOOO Tor
various miscellaneous expenses, the balance OF over
SIS 100000 is charged The correct receipts for the year
ending SOh June, 1870, are as folows Customs 1885,
qJl3lG 40 internal revenue, e32G2l9 Of public lands
S32s224 81 miscellaneous, s25,39532 II; total, s4O5
S3l ,372 A..
The Army bill and the changes it effects in the several
branches OF the national forces are now under e9nSdera
ton by the War Department The act provides that all
officers included under the head Of "Supernumcrary,"
Of whom there about 500 may he discharged and re-
ceiye years pay the time of discharge may be re-
tired on part pay, their option The Department has
issued the necessary orders and already number OF
officers have applied for their discharge They receive
from 81 800 $4,000 Others applying for discharge or
retirement should address the War Department, ana
should accompany their application with statement OF
and circumstances which may serve accurately
to determine their cases.
The court martial in the OF LicutCo Jas. Totem
Assistant Inspccor-General United states Army, aud
Brcvet igaderGeneral, has concluded its hbors and
rendered the decision Gen. Totten was charged with
characterization, neglect of duties, and conduct I'M
becoming an officer" He was found guilty. and SEN
fenced to be dismissed Aaservce" Tie sentence has
been approved by Sherman, and the papers have
been forwarded to the President for his action. Gen.
Totten entered the service in ISL H. at West Point
with Gems. Sherman Grant, and host or others less
prominent in the army service. He has always been ac-
corded efficient officer, until within the last rev years.
He entered West Point from Pennsylvania, which is his
native State His first service Second Lieutenant
OF the I'd Artillery, in which he did service in
Mexico. He subsequently transferred TO
the Inspector Generals Department, where he has since
done service. 1t trying duty TO Gen. sherman TO
approve the sentence of the Court, as Gen. Totem
has been on the most friendly relationship, officially
and personally, with him, from the time they have
been in the service. While at school they were intimate
friends.
BY order OF the President the Secretary of War has
dismissed from the service the folOwngnamed officers
Oh account OF their dcserOn from the army: First Lieut.
L. W. Barnhart, 4th L. 5. Cavalry First Lieut.. VIM L
Patterson 5h IT, 5. Artillery and Second Lieut. W. A.
Newton. LIST Infantry.
The fec Of 81 per diem heretofore allowed officers de-
tailed court martial, summoned or attending az
wines. las been abolished, but the mileage Of 10
cent per mile is still allowed.
Commissioner Parker has rcturned from New-York,
having made all necessary purchases for tie Indians
The Indian Appropriation Act has been arranged a me
Treasury DEPARTMENT and the amount due 70 each tribe
pur,an. to the provisions OF the law are clearly aser
tanned The Warrant Clerk has prepared SCI or DOCKS
with the accounts Of each Indian tribe contained th're
in and i, already issuing warrants to the order OF Com
missioner Parker for their benefit.
Secretary RDbes0n to-day received telegram from
York announcing that Admiral Frri gut was ser
ousy il-in all probability dying. The Secretary sent
for further information.
The Secretary OF the Treasury and Commissioner
Dano have decided To but patent lock Tor az
bonded warehouses; dsticres, customs offices, eic ana
the secretary will appoint commission to determine Oh
the proper lock- that it may he adopted ana pceu III
rratical Use by the OF October next the time hXed
,r ,hc now Tax and Tariff laws TO go into effect.
IT, President communicated 10 the Senate, July II,
puber q PAPERS relating to questions pending between
this country and Great Britain There are ten papers III
all one being brief note from Mr Fish, with Two oters
, to same men relating 10 the Alabama Question ana
Tho a,n Juan Boundary. There is note from Earl
Clarendon TO Minister Thornton, and one omtheformer
forwarded by Minister Motley and the remaining seven
are from Mr. Motley. Most Of the papers are occupied
by Diplomatic argument as to whether certain notes.
ttcn by Earl Clarendon and left by Minister Thornton
,t1 Mr. Fish we're to regarded as official notes"
pat Woods made conspicuous by the action oil con
, in committing him 10 jail for assautins Congress
man. who has been Richmond on process OF the
rt to testify returned here to-day, and resumed his