The Placer herald., 1866-06-23
What the United States Must Pay in Two
Years

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bill, contains the following interesting state.
men:
"What is the amount of Indebtedness to
be met, and when must it be met! To this
question invite the careful and earnest at,
tention of the House. | shall give the off
cial statement of the amount of our total
Indebtedness, and also of that portion soon
to become due. The amount of our public
debt, on the first day of this month, was
S2,7ll $4,000 Less than half this amount
is funded. Within the next three years
81 coo, 900, 900 of this debt will fall due,
and will be presented at the counter of the
Treasury Department for payment. That
payment must be promptly made or our
paper goes to protest and our credit is bro
ken. hold in my hands an official table
showing the amount of our Indebtedness
that natures each half year for the three
years, which, after a word of explanation,
will read:
"Ihere was on the last day Of February,
1866, portion of our debt in the form of
temporary loan to the amount Of $l19,335,,
1914 so, payable at the option of the lender
after ten days notice. 1t would hardly be
fair to reckon that whole amount as payable
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called for at any time, and is the least valu,
able form of loan, it must be added to the
statement of Indebtedness soon to be met.
With this explanation, and supposing the
payment of this loan to be demanded within
the next six months, | call attention to the
facts exhibited in the table.
"Between this day and the 3Oth Of June
next, we must pay. in addition to the regu.
lar expenditure of the Government, Sl3S,,
O74,S74 80. During the six months ending
December 81, 1866, we must pay s47, 1865,
900. During the six months ending June
80, 1867, we must pay SS,47l 900. Daring
the six months ending December 81, 1867.
we must pay $35O,OOO,00O During the six
months ending June 80 1868, we must pay
S3694l5, 25O. During the six months end
ing December 81, 1868, we must pay $751;
564 .5S2. So that between this and the as,
sembIing of the next Congress there must be
paid over the counter of the Treasury, be-
sides the ordinary expenses of the Govern.
ment 81, POI ,e9O,6O7 62"
Horse SHOEING.-An cid Blacksmith
sends a communication to the Meadville
Republican,, and talks so sensible that we
take pleasure in making an extract from it:
"lhere is no kind Of work, perhaps in the
whole of the backsmith's trade that ought
to be done with more care than horse shoe
ing, aud yet there is nothing that is done
with less. Many blacksmiths seem TO think
that all that is necessary is to put the shoe
on so that it will stay reasonable length of
time. This is in fact but small considera.
ton in horselshoeing. would much rather
shoe would como off very soon than have
it hurt the horse while it is on, as is the case
too often.
The trouble, in my opinion is, that the
workmen seldom learn the trade. 1t used
to take five years to learn the blacksmith's
trade; now boy will learn it in five months,
or think he has learned it, and will 60 to
work on his own hook. Then because he
can nail on shoe so it will stay few weeks
men let him shoe their horses; and that is
the reason there are SO many poor travelling
horses.
No man has right to shoe horse until
he knows all about horses foot. 1t is
particular job to put on horses shoe SO
that it will set easy. The hoof should be
pared in such a way that when the shoe is
on, the horse will hardly feel it.
A hOlSo . IoOC 10 IuIi VI uoIiCdlo uUSIS, anu
if shoe sets too hard on them by wrong
pairing, or pairing too much at the heel, the
horses health is injured as we'll as his travel
ing powers that is the reason why so many
horses run down when they are worked hard
and well fed. Their feet hurt them, and not
their feet alone, but their stomachs all, how
ever proceeding from their poor shoeng.
They will be down after hard days work,
before they have eaten half the food set be-
fore them.
All that is wanted is a little care to set
the shoe right. The usefulness of the horse
is in the hands of the shoer in great meas>
ure; so say that man ought not to call
himself horse shoer till he has learned the
trade and knows all about horses foot, and.
what effect it will have to pare here or there
or to set shoe here or there.'
CATHOLICISM IN CHINA-A Roman Cath.
olic Cathedral is being built in Pekin, the
capital of China, with spire that will make
it the most conspicuous object in the impe-
rial city. 1t is not generally known that the
Catholic missions, commenced in China
about three hundred years ago, have made
constant nrorrass in snita NJ narsacnt;ons in