Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-09-30
LATE NEWS
III TELEGRAPH.


WASHINGTON, Sept. es.-The Secretary
OF the Treasury received . notification
from the executors of Capt. Ralph 8.
Fritzc, late Of San Francisco, that said
teststor has left to the United States
100000 in trust to be applied towards
cancelIing the national debt.
The terms agreed upon for the settle
ment OF the business between the United
States and Frazer, Trenholm i Co., are
entirely satisfactory to the Government
The defendants by counsel sckDo~ledge
the principles of the public law claimed
by the Government, aud provide for Sc
securing to it all the property to which
it il entitled On these principles furth-
er action however, may be necessary to the
consumasion Of terms through the courts
Of Great Britain and the Cniteu States.
The fractional currency received at the
Treasury from the printing bureau for the
week, Is &590,60O; sent out; 400S,110 |;
national bank currency issued, 1881. l25 !;
fractional currency redeemed and de.
stroyed, t74,00O; internal revenue re.
ceipts ee,5O2. 09s for the fiscal year to
date, e54 ,742,562.
The Commissioner Of the General Land
Office received intelligence on the 9th inst,
of the land of1ce for the district Of Mon.
tara.
Superintendent Head writes to the Indian
Bureau from Great Salt Lake that Black
Hawk had pledged himself TO use his in
flueDce 10 stop ali further depredatiOns, and
to visit his own band ct once and stop hos
tilities, and Immediately thereafter to see
the other hostile Utes and induce them to
do likewise, and to meet Head with his own
Ind As.Nh has ho h.
ia six or eight weeks.
General Sickles has been ordered to await
orders at New York.
WARRINGTON, Sept. 20-The crop report
Of tue Department OF Agriculture for Au.
gust and September, just Issued, gives the
general average for the several States, from
approximate estimates OF correspondents,
OF the crops then harvested. - compared
with those of 1895, together with the cur
rent condition Of tho growing crops. While
the September tables pertain chiefly TO the
state Of the Fall crops, the August returns
show Q uniform reduction In the general
average of wheat. % compared with the
July figures, and the September estimates
Of wheat harvested, - compared with the
crops Of 1866. drop figures s0mewhat lowel
in . number Of Htates, attributable, 70 q
considerable extent, to bad weather for hAr
vesting and to the fact that in some sections
che grain Was found TO 10 shriveled snt
threshed out less 10 the acre than antcipa
ted. The leading wheat growing States re
port the following per CeDtage OF increase
at the clOse of harvest Ohio, 1870; Indiana
80; Michigan, 80; Wisconsin. II; Minncso
tn, 25; Illinois, II; Iowa, 20; Missouri, 40
Kentucky, "a; West Virgins, 90; Virginia
30; Tennessee, 40; Georgia, 80; Arkansas
-; New York. "A: Penusy lvania, 60. Only
Kansas and Texas show . falling Of from
last year. when the crors in these State
were very large. Returns due October Ore
will enable US to estimate with greater &C
curacy the amount of crops for the curren
year.
The prospects for corn continues to i'm
prove and IL frosts hold of the general crol
may tc fair one. While = number 0
States return low estimates others. pafticu
larly Southern states, show marked i'm
provemrnt on last year.
Cotton promised we'll up to. Septembe
Isl when the worms were appearing ALI
much apprehensiuns in the various section
tor us safety
Extracts rom correspondence from th
cotton growing States show that in Ge0rgi
the promised yield is 50 per cent beyon
the crops Of 1856, South Carolina so. ALI
bama A., Mississippi -. A,kansas ~, an
Tennessee y per cent while Louisiana an
Texas show n considerable falling off fror
last year
Rye, barley and cats exhibit 70 materis
change from previous reports, though oai
are seriously irjdred in some sections b
The extreme wet weather during bsrvcs
But generally crops seemed superior to ths
OF last year.
Buckwecatshow an average yield wit
prospects fair.
Potatoes are nothing. and in msny OF th
large potstoe growing States the crop will
proably fail below the yield Of last year.
The leading pr ducing sugar States shos
q fair increase over the crop of last yea
Sorghum is evidently on the decline il
most States with sufficient reason. Th
crop now growing is in good condition.