Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-29
WASHINGTON.
Judge Richardson's Little Experiment
OF Specie Resumption ON a Very
Small Scale.
shinplasters not Redeemable ON Pre-
sensafion.

Shinplasters not Bkedeemable ON Pre-.
sensafon,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.--Sacretary Rich
ardson's order 10 Treasurer Spinner Direct
ing the payment Of silver, Is as follows:
You will please, on and after the receipt
of this letter, aud until otherwise ordered,
gay public creditors, should they desire it,
Oh account of currency obligations, but not
in exchange for currency, sum not to ex-
eeed five dollars in any one payment in
why mos Pay them some OF that
Nearly four hundred mechanics and
shout thousand laborers have been, dis
charged from the navy yard owing to the
money running short in consequences of the
large number improvements made in the
yard during the summer Ito help Gov.
Shepherds election?] @
The First National.
The Receiver of the First National Bank
is verifying the accounts Of the depositors
and other banks, and in about two weeks
dividend of from 20 per cent. to 80 per
cent. will be made from assets already col.
lected. IS ~f 4 +
Jay Cookies Ducks.
OF the five hundred or six hundred de-
positors In the banking house of Jay
Cooke & Co., al but about thirty have
signed plan agreeing TO place the settle
ment in the hands of the ext Commissioners
of Internal Revenue, Rollins. These
thirty are either distant from the city or
cannot at present be reached.
The simple Government OF cur Faith.
ers.
The report of the second auditor OF the
treasury shows that the number of accounts
examined by that bureau during the past
fiscal year was S4S,969, ,324.20; and for
bounty, arrears of pay, ETC., aggregating
over forty-nine million dollars. Il is ex-
pected that an effeetual stop will soon be
given to the fraudulent practices in the
bounty cl&im business. The number of
cases awaiting action is four thousand seven
hundred and forty-nine.
Indian Irregularities.
Lieut.. Col. Merrih. of 9th cavalry, re-
ports from Fort Concho, Texas, that the
Indians have made appearance in the coun-
ties of Brown, Coleman and RunDels, and
have been stealing stock. Lieut.. Lebo, of
the 10th cavalry, while on the way from
Fort Concho to Fort Richardson, recap
tured from the Indians TO stolen horses,
but the Indians, five in number, who were
driving them, succeeded in making their
escape. He says the Indians now iniestiDg
that country are probably from the Fort
Stanton reservation and other portions OF
New Mexico, following buffalo, also,
as they come south.
Charges Against Pension Commission.
er Baker.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, Oct. ga communic1-
ton is published in tie Capital to-day max
ing charges of scandalous character against
Gen. Baker, Commissioner of Pensions, the
truthfulness and proof of which are said to
be undeniable, and the writer claims to
have more of the same sort that will be
forthcoming. Baker is charged, among
other things, with Depotism and favoritism,
and oppression TO the clerks in the Pension
Bureau; also. with proclaiming his policy in
the administration of bis important office
TO be honesty, efficiency and reform gener-
ally, while at the same time he is charged
with having paid money out of the public
Treasury for a fine black walnut library
and secretary, costing three hundred and
fifty dollars, which was sent to his house
for his own private use. Gen. Baker de-
MES the main charges made, and attributes
the article to malice entertained toward him
by certain clerks, whom the General says
were dismissed for cause.