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WASHINGTON. Government Begins to Feel th Pinch Not Enough Greenbacks to Run the Machine. Some Nine Million to be Issued This Month. The Hand to Mouth Policy NEW YORK, Oct. 9-A Washington special says owing to the small receipts from revenue the Treasury officials say will be necessary to issue eight or nine lions of the forty -four millions reserve to meet the current expenses of the government the present month. Semi Official. WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.- The Treasury reserves are now being daily drawn on to pay only the actual expenses of the govern ment. There is no apprehension at the department that the draft upon $44,000,000 will be very heavy in the ordinary course of business. The outstanding legal tenders now shown to be over $356,000,000. will be reduced again to those figures at the ear liest moment, it may be before issue of next public debt The Secretary phatically asserts that the out standing legal tenders a are not exceed the minimum figures day more than the absolute demands of the government requires. The outstandir legal tenders are now $358,966,488 The Polaris Prisoners. The steamship Tallapoosa arrived last evening and was anchored in the stream No comm was permitted from shore with the Polarie survi vors. Secretary Robinson is making inquiries into the loss of the Polaris by an examination of the prisoners. The examination of Buddington's party will be chiefly in the interest of science. The party now here have several of the records of the lost ship. The Secretary of the Navy to-day said he did not credit the reports which have recently been renewed, that Capt. Hall's death was the result of foul means and it appears that all who were present at the former investiga ation are con vinced that the landing officer's death was from natural causes aione Grant's Little Tin Box. Special to the Louisville Courier-Journal WASHINGTON D. C. Oct. 8. The President's friends now assert that he had no funds on hand. either in the First National Bank or Jay Cooke & Co.'s, at the time of their suspension, but had slightly overdrawn his account This tardy denial may or may not be accepted. The National Metropolitan Bank. It is stated to-night that the examiner of the National Metropolitan. or leading ring bank in this city, has made report to Mr. Krox, in which he points out certain gross violations of law, one in the failure to have on hand the reserve of flegal tenders required by law; another in allowing Boss Shepherd to have advances largely in excess of the limit prescribed by law Efforts are mak ing to induce the examiner to modify his report. Foreign Fiscal Agents. It is remarked that the house of Rose. Morton & Co., which has just been elected for the foreign bankers of the United States, is like that of Henry Clewes & Co., conspicuous for its connection with the cart-baggers who have been plundering the Southern States: and some say that this is the secret of their favor with the President The South Carolina negro Legislature is about to be called together in extra session to levy the taxes to secure four millions of plunder to this house of Rose, Morton & Co. More Corraption. The New York Sun of to day publishes a letter making very serious charges against the Attorney General, purporting to be from a Republican source. One of the charges is that Mr Williams is owner of the fourth part of a granite quarry situated near Rich mond, Va., which has been supplying the Federal Government with granite. Bamsdell I's Oats, Ramsdell, the carpet-bag candidate of the Virginia Radicals for Lieutenant Governor, who has been claimed to be great capitalist, no mere carpet -bagger, turns out to be assessed with tax seven dollars and thirty -one cents on $568 of personal property, and to hold 200 acres of real estate, which has not been paid for. Special to the Cincinnati Gazette. Teachers Without Pay. When the question of paying the teachers in the public schools for the last month came up, it was discovered that $10,000, being the whole sum available for that upr pose, was in the First National Bank at the time of its failure. Four months' pay is now due the teachers. Schools Closed for Want of Coal. To-day eight schools were |dismissed by one of the trustees, because the weather was cold, and DO coal can be procured for the use of schools. Contractors refuse to make further delivery until some debts already due them are paid. The Government nt Running Itself Attorney General Williams said this evening that government affairs were now running so smoothly that no member of the Cabinet had any business to submit to the consideration of the President to day Cincinnati Special the to The Work for Congress. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-Even if the receipts from internal revenue should immediatel increase to an amount equal to the estimates and reasonable expectations of the Revenue Commissioner, for this season of the year, it would only have the effect of rendering unnecessary any further draft upon the legal tender reserve by the Secretary of the Treasury The most sanguine of the authorities here do not lead them to suppose that the Secretary of the Treasury will be able to replace, out of money received through the usual channels, the amount drawn from the forty four million legal tender reserve 1t is therefor strongly believed that Congress will be called upon to devise ways and means to replace the greenbacks taken from the reserve, or to authorize the S cretary of the Treasury to extend the legal tender circulation to the amount of the reserves issued. or probably to the extent of the entire forty four millions. For various good reasons the latter plan is the one most likely to be recommended to and adopted by Congress. Tests of Steam Boilers. would seem that the Commission to It y make tests of the strength of steam boilers. and to investigate and report upon the causes of boiler explosions, to be left entirely upon its own resources for ideas and suggestions of scientific character relating to the business and experiments intrusted The Commission has sent circulars to to all prominen practical engineers and scientists this country, requesting such views, ideas and as these gentlemen might see fit to submit but as yet no replies have been received by the Secretary of the Commission in this city. A meeting of the Commission will be held in New York on Monday or Tuesday next, when final will be made for teste and experiments, which begin at Sandy Hook about the 15th inst. CAL.
