The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-07
Secretary Of the Treasury.


HUGH MoCULLooH,
... Secretary of the Treasury
COMPARATIVE Observation-Disclosures Five
twenty bonds, So, 3,662,5 $780, fractional currency,
S1,131 1896 8O three per cent certificates, $3O25OOO
Total, 81, ,S18 945 so.
Decrease-Six per cent. compound interest notes,
"a ,054 800; Bonds of 1917 and 1SiS, $3.50, ,65O five
per cent Treasury notes gold 6es
Total, SO 1850 Deducting the increase, 81 ,SlS
945 s6, the decrease of the government debt is
S2,674724 20. Add increase of cash in the Trea-
sury, S2616, 1863 49, Total, S5,29O594 0S Bonds
issued to the Pacific Railroad Company, S4,32O,O0O
Net decrease of debt during the month, S97O 694 OS
The warrants issued by the Treasury Department
for the month Of September, 1868, to meet the re,
nnumbeTs to u the % following sums; CIVIL miscea-
and foreign intercourse, $37 2S7 80; lnte-
rest of the public debt, 1851 375 O3; War $685.,
Indians, SIS, ,4iO,0O5 q. Total, $50 O29, ,73t 95
The Secretary thinks that the disbursements of
the present month will be lighter than the past
and that the close thereof will show further de-
The Spanish Embassy in Washington.
Various statements have recently appeared in the
newspapers stating in substance that the Queen of
Spain having been expelled from the throne, the
duties of the Spanish Minister in Washington are,
as consequence, at end, and that it has been so
decided by Secretary Seward. There is the best
authority for saying that the Secretary has made
no decision of that character nor is this question
which now demands the consideration of our gov
ernment. The Spanish Minister is still and will
tinue to be recognized as such until the Spanish
Indian Affairs.
Colonel S. S. Smoot, special Indian Agent, ar
rived here to-day from the Choctaw and Chicka-
country. eight days from Fort Gibson to the
Cherokee nation, whittier he went by direction of
the Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose OF
paying those tribes the sum of $26O,OOO due them
loyal Indians, for property destroyed during the
Colonel Smoot was escorted from Leavenworth
to the Indian territory by squad of United States
soldiers. This was rendered necessary on account
of the large sum of money in his possession.
ovar This amount was because Of a provision in law
requiring it to be paid to the claimants in person.
and not through attorneys or assignees.
Colonel SmoOt had an interview to-day with Sec
retary Browning and Acting Commissioner Mix, on
the subject of his mission.
A telegram to the Indian Office, dated Atchtson,
Kansas, October 6, from the clerk of the Central
Superintendency, says: General Hazen writes
from Fort Larned that the Kiowas and Camanches,
who were upon the Arkansas river, have without
doubt ioined the Cheyennes and Arrapahoes in the
war. Superintendent Murphy is at Council
Brivet Major General Merritt 9th cavalry, com
mandng Fort Davis, Texas, under date of Septem-
ber 18TH reports that Lieutenant Cusack, of the 9th
cavalry who was sent from Fort Davis with de-
tachment OF sixty men and a volunteer party of
Mexcans to recapture the stock recently stolen by
Indians from train near Fort Stockton, overlook
the Indians (Apaches), some 200 strong, about 80
miles east of Fort Davis, attacked them and killed,
in a running fight, extending over five miles, be-
tween twenty and thirty of them, wounded at least
as many more, and took from them all their stock,
over 200 head of mules and horses, besides some
few cattle, and destroyed their entire camp, nclud-
ing their winter store of meats and berries, and
captured two Mexican boys, who had been in cap
tivity four or five years.
The loss to Lieutenant Cusack's command was
two soldiers severely, though not dangerously
wounded, and two horses. Some government stock
stolen from Fort Lancaster and other points by the
Indians, is among that captured; also, some of the
mail stock lost short time since. large quantity
of skins, robes and other plunder was taken. The
command marched almost the entire distance by
night, lying by in the day time in order to confuse
the Indians, which he succeeded in doing. He
speaks highly of the good conduct of his men, anC
makes special mention of the Diggenwiddie CitizeI
Volunteer and Vigilant Tanner Company aud
others for cOnspcuOus gallantry during the fight.