Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-01
WASHINGTON.

4 DimimutIOn Of the 'SPuBIIc Bless
ing.,'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3l.-It is reported
that the public debt will be reduced this
month between $4,000, 900 and So, 900, 600
The expenses of the Government for Janu-
airy do not vary much from last month,
while the Internal Revenue receipts are
light. The custom receipts are fair,
amounting already to So, 500, 600. The
prospects for a reduction of the debt are
not so favorable as at this time last winter.
Better Late Than Never.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has issued
q circular to discussing clerks and proper
accounting officers of the Treasury Depart
ment, requiring that all accounts presented
by officers, clerks or other employees and
departments for mileage or expenses in
CURED while engaged In official business,
must in future have appended thereto the
oath Of party that distances charged have
been actually and necess arily Travelled at
date therein specified, and none Of any
such distance been travelled under any
free pass on any railroad, steamboat or
other conveyance, and that the expenses
charged have been actually incurred and
paid.
No account Of such party unaccompa-
MED with the oath above specified will be
paid by any disbUrsing officer of the De-
partment, or passed by accounting Office.
AdOpted---at the BayOnet's Point.
Gen. Ames called on the President to-
day and presented him the official records
of the adoption of the Constitutional
Amendment and election of United States
Senators according to law.
The Military Regime.
HEADQUARTERs or TEE ARMY, Jan. 81
The Senators and Representatives from the
State of Virginia having been admitted to
their respective houses in Congress, the
command known as the First Military Dis
trict, has ceased to exist.
IL BY direction Of the President, the
States of Maryland, Virginia, West Viz
ginia and North Carolina viii comprise the
Department Of Virginia, under command
of Bvt. Maj. Gen. E. r. Candy, headquar-
tiers at Richmond, Va, and viii form part
of the Military District of Atlanta.
III. Commanding officers of all posts and
detachments now serving In the limits Of
the new department will report to Gen.
Candy for instructions. The companies of
the Sth Infantry, now serving in the State
of North Carolina, will be relieved early as
possible, and Will then report to Maj. Gen.
o. H. Terry, commanding the Department
South, for orders
OpdyIEe.
Mr.. Opdyke was examined before the
Committee on Banking and Currency to-
day on the general question Of the cause
Of the gold panic.
Tariff and Internal.
The Committee on Ways ald Means to-
day completed the tariff bills which they
report tomorrow.
The Internal Revenue receipts to-day
were 81, 2SS, 400, and for the present month
SIP, $4,000; a gain of Sl,360,0OO over
January, 1869.
Supreme Court
The case of Frank 2. Blair, Jr., pending
for several years before the United States
Supreme Court, was decided to-day. The
appellant was debarred from the right to
vote because he had refused to the oath OF
loyalty prescribed by the Constitution OF
Missouri, and the Supreme Court of that
State sustained such denial, which now
stands in the Supreme Courts of the United
States having equity?
Contested Election.
The Committee on Elections will to.
morrow consider the case of Van WycB
against Green, of New York. They have
changed the former programme, and will
now let the poll stand, endeavoring to set
tie the case 10y excluding individual fraudu'
lent votes.
SUPERINTENDENT of the Census.
The Pre- dent has nominated Frances A.
Walker. "rsetts, as Superintend'
Snt Of tb
GniFlUE.