The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1868-04-03
JASPER COURIER.
,ttLtatks ard The Gold in The
Treasury.

Treasury.
The Washington correspondent oil
the New York Herald reports that
there is authority for stating that the
amount Of greenback currency now
in tho Treasury is less than any time
since the close OF the war, the bulk
Of the Treasury balances being in
rold. The amount OF gold now
in the Treasury exceeds one hun
dr,l millions. The books OF the
Treasury office prove this iaot. There
j, now in circulation greenback cur
rency amounting to three hundred and
tilty.six millions. according to law,
and nearly thirty millions OF fractional
rurrcncy: adding to this the amount
Of national bank currency in clscala
ron. which nearly reaches the limit
If three hundred millions. aud there
"a psper circulation reaching sever
hundred millions Of dollars.
The hundred millions Of col 4 in the
t-u,snry, with It's other resources. and
and the three hundred millions Of Ma.
tionai bank money substituted bv
~;rccnhacks woult ahout redeem the
t~ive.twenty bonds now due ut the short
date. Practical and sagacions iinan
cicring wonld direct all the available
resou ces OF the Government to the re-
.le.np,ion of The interest paving debt.
Ii is plain to be seer by the foregoing
figures that over thirty millions of
d liars interest could he saved annu-
ally. BIT VIZ mnst not look for tl,is
sensible iinancicriny rs long rs n par
" il in power that legislatrs cxclu-
~sivel; fnr class interests. policy that
makes the rich richer and poor poorer.
A. Il. SrwAnr AHANDoAs GENERAL
GRAsr.-A short time ago, A. j..
Stew r. the merchant millionaire Of
New losk city. MAS u Of General
Grants chief hackers Tor the lresi.
,lency. 1t is given out 0 that he
ms abandoned him. on the ground
that he has neither the requisite liz
irgri'y aud genilemanly bearing to be
President OF the United States.
SIX JCsTIc&iu r TIE SUPREME CorRT
OrrosED 70 CoSGREsS.-lt il ascer-
tanned that Justices Chase. Nelson,
''rler, Clifford. Davis, and Field hold
Congressional Reconstruction rs ~
constitutional AMI sustain the appeal
al the MCmlln case. JUSTICES
Swayur and Miller sustain the acts "f
cungress, aud favor dislnissin. ii,
appeal.
--Genrrai buchanan has nssnmc!
command ot the Filth Military Dis
;rlci u has issued an order lnr al
election in Louisiana for members {
Congress. and such state. judicial and
municipal ptlir-rs as provided Tor l.!
HE constitution.
-Tae total number Of applicants
fr the hcnc.it ot the bankrupt act, in
his State, M to the present time. IL
five hundred and seventy tivc-5ut
WIZ litHi lil'S ONtb'N
The Prussian Consul n. New Or
leans. and other prominent Germans,
are sRising funds fer the relief Ut des.
'itute people in Eastern Prussia. who
mc reduced to famine vi . OF
failure OF crops.
A bill was Introduced in the low.
or House Of the New Jersey Legisla.
ture to make the punishment for mnr-
der in the first degree hanging 81 i'm
prisonment tor litc--the sam AS is Ii.
linois and Minnesota.
General Burnside is to build the
Mount Vernon and GRANVILLE Rail.
road for $4,000 and will have it
completed before Christmas.
u The A~valanche's Little Rock
special says the complete returns from
four-fiths OF the counties Indicate that
the Constitution is defeated by not
lees than seven thousand majority.
i'm Searcv- Arkanaua a po;r of