New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-17

captured September 1870. The same plates
| had been used to print notes ON the hve
banks by changing the names. The amount
put in circulation is not known. ABOUT
| $l5OOO were captured with the plates
| Tens ON the First and Third National Banks
! of Philadelphia; plates captured September
| g. 1867, with 1000 of the money. About
| 500, 900 had been printed. Tens ON the
| Merchants National Bank OF Chicago ar"
| known to be now in circulation; tens on
| National Bank OF Watertown. New York,
photographic negatives unfinished, were
| cantured September 80, 1866; tives, untin-
| ished plates, captured September d, 1860:
| fiyes. on the Peoples National Bank of
jackson, Michigan, plates captured May,
| 1867. with $1,000 of counterfeits; few are be-
| lieved to be now in circulation; tives, I'M
finished plates on Utica City a National
| Bank, captured September "A, 1868: tives.
| on Jewett City National Bank. Connecticut;
poor photographic plates, captured June 70,
1869 Considerable quantities OF this cOull-
| terteit were put i'll circulation west OF the
| Mississippi.
| The following is a list Of all the counter
| feits known at the treasury to be i'll clrculd-
ton, the plates Of which have not been cap
| tured: Tens OF Flour City National Bank,
of Rochester, New York; Saratoga County
National Bank, of Waterford. New York;
! Highland National Bank. of Newburg, New
York; Albany City. New York, National
Bank; First National Bank, Of Red Hook.
New York; Auburn City, New York,
| National Bank Mutual National Bank;
Bank of Troy, New York; Amer r;I,
National Bank Of Lockport. New
York; National Bank of Commerce.
New York, and First National Bank
| of Poughkeepsie. New York. Iwos
on the Marine National Bank OF New York:
| Market National Bank Of New York; st.
| Nicholas National Bank of New York; Ma
tional Union Bank of lindenpark, New
| York: National Bank of Rhode Island. New
| port. Rhode Island. Ten of the eleven ten
dollar counterfeits and four of the five two
| dollar cOunterteits are printed from the
| same plate, with only the name OF the bank
changed. 1t is stated that in the thirty
millions of dollars of national bank cur
rency received at the currency bureau Tor
replacement with new notes since the es-
| Enlistment of the national banks. only
three counterfeit bills have been dis
| covered.
| The Controller does not believe that any
| cOnsidera bic amount of counterfeit money
is now in circulation, and says that little
| complaint is made by the banks and the
| public. Business men who have Travelled
extensively in the Southern and South
| western States are of different
opinion, and say that in districts remote
from banks and large towns, and especially
| among the negroes, the amount of counter
| felt money atloat is very great, much of 1t
| being so roughly executed that it would be
at once detected if offered i'll the North.
| In connection with the proposition to print
all notes, stamps and bonds of the govern
| ment in the treasury at Washington, it is
stated authoritatively that it costs sixty
thousand dollars a year for express charges
for paper to New York to be printed h. the
Bank Note Company doing the government t
work. and for the return OF the notes.
The Tennessee.
The Secretary of the Navy has addressed
the following letter to Representative Sar-
| Nav DHPAnrNrSr.
Washington, February l. :
DEAR SIR--ln reply to your note in re-
| gard to the Tennessee, ana - quiet. SO tar
| AS NAV he. the apprehension which has been
excited as to her safety. beg to say that ut
the time of her departure the commission
had not decided whether they would pro
coed directly 70 San Domingo City or first
visit SANTANA bay. or some other port on the
northern frontier OF the Dominican rrpub-
lic; that if she proceeded directly to San
Domingo City the voyage would at the or
binary rate of speed under steam, consume
eight to ten days: that no adviccS have
been received from san Domingo City or
other port to which the Tennessee would be
likely to 90 since the time OF her de
parture.
There are, at this season of the year. no
lines of ordinary and regular communlca-
ton from San Domingo City, or other port
in San Domingo. to any place from which
we could, since the time the Tennessee was
due at her destination. have received tcle-
graphic or other advces of her arrival or
non-arrival; that no extraordinary means OF
| communication are provided, and none are
likely to have been employed except III ease
| of disaster: that since she crossed the gull
stream, probably about latitude 80 north.
she would be out of the track of vessels
bound to our ports: and that if her VOYAGE
Is successful we cannot expect adylces from
her except accidentally, until the return OF
the Tvbee. which makes the only regular
line OF communication. and which will be
due in New York in about ten days.
! The Tennessee is "a new ship, OF nearly
three thousand tons burden. carefully and
strongly built. larger than any ship OF oar
squadron cruising i'll the West Indies and
is staunch and Sea-worthy as any ship OF
our navy. She was Launched since the
| close of the war. and was found perfectly
sea-worthy i'll long and boistcrous trip.
She is commanded by careful and expe
rienced officers. had full complement OF
|
visioned and equipped. She carries ten
boats, among which is il large steam launch.
We have heard Of no bad weather in the
latitude where she would likely be, and her
route did not take her any such distance
from ports of our own coast and the West
Indies that, in case of serious accident,
the survivors of any but the most
extraordinary disaster would not most
likely have been heard from.
| The STEAMER Twice left New York on the
first of February sailing in the track
of the Tennessee; and at her usual rate
would have arrived at Domingo on the
eighth and in case OF any disaster to the
Tennessee on her way, or her non-arrival at
the same port of the Dominican republic by
that date, news would most likely be carried
| by one of our own cruisers. or by the extra
ordinary means which would in that case
have only been employed to Jamaica, whence
we might by this time have heard by tele
graph. 1t seems to HE that there is nj
greater cause tor anxiety concerning tho
Tennessee than for any other ship OF oul
navy On the ocean; that the absence of ad
vices is by no means evidence OF disaster
but Will be henceforth, and until finally de
cded by the regular means, each day
stronger assurance of a safe and successful
voyage: and that suggestions of her loss
made without information and sustained
without cause are as weak as they are cruel
Very respectfully,
GEORGE NJ robson,
Secretary of the Navy.
There is sound sense in the following artl
, Gle from the New York Commercial: