The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-07
WASHINGTON.

evening.
WASHINGTON.
Advices from Texas-A Bight with
IndIans-The Public Debt State
ment- Receipts from internal
Revenue. aaa i7ai-
! WAsHINaroN, Oct. e.-Brevet Mai
Gen: Merritt, commanding at Fort
Davis, Texas under date of Septem-
Der 18th. reports that Lieut.. Ousaok
of the Ninth Cavalry, who was sent
from Fort Davis with a detachment OF
sixty men from Companies q, E aud
K Of his regiment, and Volunteer
party of Mexicans to recapturo the
stock recently stolen by Indians from
a train near Fort Stockton, overlook
the Indians lApaches) some 200
strong, about eighty miles east of Fort
Davis, attacked them and, killed in a
running fight extending over FIVE
miles, between 20 and 80 of them,
wounded as many more, and took
from them all the stock, over 200 head
of mules and horses, besides some
few cattle, destroyed the entire camp,
| including their winter store of meats
and berries, and recaptured two Mex
ican boys, who had been. in captivity
some four or five years. ~
The loss to Lieutenant Cusack' s
command was two soldiers severely
though not dangerously wounded, and
two horses killed. r.es '.sa /
The public debt statement will be
published to- morrow. 1t is stated at
the Department that it will show a
decrease, from September, of 1890, 900.
The receipts from Internal Revenue
for the nine days last preceding the
1st of October. were heavier than ex-
pected-about 1000, 900. The Pacific
Railroad bonds have been added to
the debtsince last statement. Amount
in the Treasury, coin, $97 ,0OO. 600 :;
currency, 81, 100000 van
The Spanish Minister is still, and
will continue to be, recognized, until
the Spanish Government itself shall
otherwise determine.
Col. S. Mott, Special Indian Agent.
arrived to-day from the Choctaw and
Chickasaw country, eight days from
Fort Gibson, in the Cherokee nation,
whittier he went by direction of the
Secretary o the Interior, for the pur-
pose OF paying those Indians for their
property destroyed during the rebel
lion, as appropriated by Congress in
July. last out of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw funds. .oIJJ8 sTt}-Ek4s
Col. S. Mott had an interview
to day with Secretary Browning and
Acting Commissioner Mix, on the
subject of his mission. ~. eZ
The Treasurer's own increase of
coin since the first of September is
near nine and a quarter million dol
lars, independent of the payment of
the interest on the Ten-forties and
sales of coin by Mr.. Van DYKE,
amounting to about two and one
third millions. e5aruessE
The following is a statement of the
public debt of the United States on
the 1st of October. 1t was issued
late this afternoon: vg
Debt bearing coin interest....S 81 LOG, ,I54,sOo 90
DE Dt bearing currency int. 50 ,4SI $50 90
Matured debt not pi esented
Ior yment.--.-......--........... 2,440 243 64
| Debt bearing no interest...... 1881 OS7 IL
/ Six per cent. lawful money
q bonds issued TO Pacific R-R. 1gil
Company...-.....,.......... 96s, 400 90
GA ,0O1 $50 81
AMOUNT IN TREASURY.
| Coin ..............S 81, ,S9I ,S47 10
Currency.-..---. 1850 ,994 76 rt-
Total. .........slIO. .257, ,sn So siIo,257,s4l Sc
Debt less cash in Treasurys2, 5 4s,7IS 95
This statement as compared with that of
the previous month shows the folio wing
| increase: EFs
| Five-twenty bonds 1862 $50 90
Fract1onaI currency I13l 95 80
Three per cent certifcates......... 80, $1,000 90
..........S 1913 S45 so
| DECREASE, ~ 100000
Six per cent. compound inter
Bonds nS Of isI7 and 60 60
Five per cent Treasury notes. 10000 90
seven @ thirty Treasury notes 1i30S co co
To.a4 49s, $40 90
Deduct the increase of 81, ,81S,945 80
and the decrease of the public debt is
81 GA, ,724 20; to this adj the increase
of cash In the Treasury, $2.615, 500 80,
and the total is s., ,290,594 80 The
bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
Company during the month amounted
TO 81, ,320. 900. The net decrease of
the debt during the month, including
the bonds issued to the railroad COM
panies, was 1870, ,594 so. The war
rants issued by the Treasury Depart
ment during September, to meet the
requirements of the Government,
amounted, in round numbers, to the
following sums, viz:
Civil, miscellaneous and for "A Il
eign intercourse IS no 2S7 SO
Interest on the Public Debit. 967I ,S75 O3
W ar s.4... $50 0I w
NaVy OepaTtmen ,276 762 "A
Interior. Pension, and Indian
54lOOO5 q
Total ,O27 ,73I 95
The Secretary thinks that the dis
bursements of the present month will
be lighter than the past, aud that the
close thereof will show further de-
crease.
ST. LOUIS.