Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-07-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

prices have ranged in the vicinity of l45
for few days past, and it seems to be
hpe general expectation that it will be
higher, unless the secretary Of the treasury
unlocks his vaults and sells some of his
surplus gold, or anticipates the gold
interest. The third and last series of
the seven-thirty loan is going off rapidly.
and less than fifteen millions now remain.
The sales for last week amounted to thirty
five millions, and they will be closed out
this week; and those who are intending
to invest in this loan at par, will have
to do so very soon. The government is
paying off its troops as fast as they are
discharged, and probably requisitlon of
$15O,OO0,OO0 will have to be made on
the treasury for payments DUE july l.,
to the men discharged and who remain III
the service. The other creditors of the
government get rs per cent of their claims
paid in certificates of Indebtedness. But
the issue of new certificate of Indebtedness
does not equal the amount of those contin-
ually maturing and redeemed, and the
reduction of this description of paper has
been from $2jO,O000O0 to less tina n
100000. The receipts from inter-
nal revenue arc gratifyingly large, and
are increasing. The legal limit of nation
al bank circulation is now nearly reached,
and but few more national banks will be
authorized. The entire number will prob
ably be about l600.-The grand CONNER
cial convention at Detroit closed last week
Friday. The convention of course accom-
plished nothing, but the opinions there
expressed and heard on the two great
commercial questions of the day, increased
faculties for Internal commerce, and recip.
rocal trade between the United States
and Canada, will not be without their
weight and the acquaintance and good
feeling engeudered by the visit can but
be an excellent thing.
President johnson has so far recovered
his health as to be able to attend to the
puplic business. but he is literally over
whelmed by office seekers, and it is won.
der, with all the rest that he has to do,
that he does not break down entirely.
Miss Mary Harris, who has been on
trial at Washington for the murder of
the treasury Clerk Burroughs; has deem
acquitted by the jury on the plea of
insanity, which has to fathe great many
enormaties a-days.-Dispatches from
the far West say that Gen Conner is push
ing his Indian campaign with vigor, an d
will soon put an end to outrages by the
savages. The Arrapahoe Indians, who
were supposed to be friendly, aud who
have been fed by the government, have
been committing outrages, it is discovered
and now they have declared open war.
They will be severely chastised to pay for
their treachery.
Our foreign dates are to the 9th, and
preparations were going on as fast as
possible for laying the Atlantic cable. II
was expected that the feet would leave
Valentia on the 10Th, { wednesday last
and in that case would arrive on this
side early in August.
Manufacturing has taken genuine ant
undoubted start all over New England
There is scarcely factory village which
is not revivifed and the mills. great anC
small, are humming more busily than a
any time since the beginning of the war
Several large establishments are delayed
in starting to the full capacity desired b,
lack of competent help. State politics brew
very mildly.
Summer comes on apace, though tn
last week has given US few of the extra
, hot days which wilt humanity but max
corn grow visibly. Nobody will petition
for hotter weather, however, and every
body has concluded that it is about warn
: and late enough to 60 to the springs o
the mountains and so the annual hegir
of summer pleasure,seekers is beginning i
good earnest though the stay-at.homes a
) present out-number the go-aways in thi
o vicinity, even among the class who max
it point to 90 somewhere every season
But 10 week or two. Newport. alread
l. waxing brilliant. will be enjoying tn
E hight of the season; the quieter places Q