The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-26
THIRD E DITION
MATTERS At WASHINGTON.
important Treasury Statement.
Examination of Coupon Bonds
The Charge of Counterfeiting
Shocking Murder at Baltimore.
Examination of Coupon Bonds
The Charge of counterfeiting
FROM WASHINGTON.
tBY ASSOCIATED PREss.l
rclusiuely TO The EDening Telegraph.


Examination OF Coupon Bonds.
WASHINGTON, June 26.-All the coupon bonds
which have been purchased within the last two
years. with the exception of those now passing
through the hands of the accounting officers of
the Treasury, have been examined and found
genuine.
Those purchased in New York are first ex-
amined at the Office of the Assistant Treasurer
and then in the office of the Treasurer at Wash
ington. After this examination they are turned
over to the loan Office of the Secretary of the
Treasury for examination and cancellation. Next
they pass through the hands of the First Auditor
and First Comptroller for examination and
allowance. They are then sent to the Registers
Office, for examination and comparison with the
Registers books on their issue. From the Re-
gisters Office they are passed to the Committee
on Destruction of Cancelled Securities.
Within the last few weeks statements have
been made to the Secretary of the Treasury,
though not supported by the least evidence, that
bonds purchased by the Government have been
distracted and sent to England for sale, and
Counterfeit Bonds
substituted for them.
The Secretary, however, appointed a com
mittee of experts, being engravers in the Print
ing Bureau, to make a careful examination of
all bonds purchased, with view of ascertalning
whether there was any foundation whatever for
the rumor. Having made a careful examination,
they reported that all the bonds purchased
Are Genuine.
An examination has also been made of the
bonds in the hands of the Register, held to sup
ply calls by exchange, and these have likewise
been found to be correct. A number of bonds
are retained in the hands of the Register to
supply demands for previous issues by ex-
change or otherwise. These are kept in the
safe to which are affixed three combination
locks with three several keys, one of which is
kept by the Register, and the others by two
clerks, one each so that the action of all
three persons is separately required to open the
safe.
The following is the
Report of the Committee
of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June "a, 1S71.-To.
Hon. George s. Boutwell,, Sec'ry of Treasury
The undersigned, designated committee to ex-
amine the cancelled bonds In the hands af the Com
mittee on Destruction Of Bonds, Mr.. Wilson being
chairman with special reference to the genuineness
of the bonds respectfully report that we have ex-
amined exchange cases numbered 2s37 TO 1850, in-
elusive per schedule in the hands OF Mr.. Wilson,
consisting OF Sc 463 bonds of the denominations Of
dpa 5 apd one Sousand aoa eunns TO
s4s, 800 250. Also redemption cases numbered to
e. inclusive as per schedule consisting . Of ss Ols
hundred dollars five hundred dollars, and one thou.
BONDS ' S
ton, 5 5 We i found e & have been printed from
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing Treasury De.
partment. In exchange case No. sl9s, there was a
memorandum stating that two bonds, OF the denom-
nation of one thousand dollars each, number A,242,
and number sl,b24, were delivered to the Loan
York as evidence Also, in exchange case number
3l47 there was memorandum stating that
three bonds OF one thousand dollars
each had been withdrawn and sent to New York to
be used as evidence in the suit OF the Bank OF New
ark. These missing bonds are not in the amount
reported examined by US. 1t has been suggested
to your committee by Mr.. George w. Castelar,
Superintendent Of Engraving and Transferring, that
that portion OF the bonds containing the number
and denomination should be preserved for
future reference and examination in case OF
duplicate numbers being presented. We con-
slider this suggestion important, and would
respectfully recommend its adoption. And further
bureau, Mr. Geo. b. McCartee, that a duplicate copy
of all bonds and notes issued by the Government
under their several acts OF each denomination
printed upon the same quality of paper, and pro-
pery cancelled, should be preserved by this DEPART
ment in Bureau Of Engraving and Printing for future
reference.
a note sent from the Long Branch Secretary's
ONCE to M. Casilear for examination in which there
was no information of such issue, and nothing with
which to compare it in order to form an opinion
Your committee desire TO bear testimony to the
courtesy OF Mr. Wilson in afording every facility
while pursuing our investigation.
Respectfully submitted
DAVID M. COOPER,
WILLIAM d. EARLE,
Committee.
Naval Orders.
Commander G. NJ. Anthony is detached from
special duty at Pittsburg, Pa, and placed on
waiting orders Lieutenant G. NJ. Anderson
from the receiving ship Vandalia and ordered to
Portsmouth Navy Yard.
Presidential Appointments.
The President has made the following ap-
pointments of Postmasters-David W. Sim
mons, at jacksonville, Ill; @. W. Duston, at
Demopolis Ala; Isaac H. Caldwell, Waco
Texas; Miss Augusta B. Berand, at West Point
N Y; Elias Wilson, at Millville, N. j.; Abram
Harkins at Rochester, MINI.