Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-02
WASHINGTON.
Gen. BsIknap Installed as Secretary
of War.
Report of the Commissioners of tn
Union Pacific Railroad.
Statement of the Public Debt
The Argentine RepubIic---The Con-
science Fund.
Etc. Etc. Etc.

Etc. Etc. Etc.
WASHINGTON, November 1.--Gen.
Belknap made his appearance at the
| War Department at 8 O'clock this
morning, and the oath OF Office was
administered at 10 O'Clock. The off
GERS of the army called, and were in
troduced by Gen. sherman.
The Commissioners of the Union
and Central Pacific Railroads have
made their report TO Secretary Of In
| terror, Cox. In concluding, they de-
sire to state that both Companies are
doing a large amount of work on their
respective roads, and are day by day
bringing them nearer to the standard
! required by law. This great thor
oughfare, the value OF which, to the
country, is inestinable, and in which
every citizen should feel pride, has
been built in about half the time al
lowed by Congress, and Is nova GOOD
| and reliable means Of communication
between Omaha and Sacramento. 1t
is well equipped and fully prepared to
carry passengers aud freight with
safety and dispatch, comparing IN
this respect favorabiy with the ma
jority of the first-clasS roads OF the
/ United States.
In the Supreme Court to-day, the
opinion was delivered by Chief jus
tice Chase in the case Of Thorning vs..
Smith & Heily, which Court decided
/ that - proinissOry note given IN pay
ment Tor property purchased at Mont
! gOmery, Ala, in 1861, when the au-
! thOrity of the United States was eX
| cluded from that part OF the Stale and
! only currency was in uSe, Confederate
treasury notes is payable in COntedcr-
! ate notes alone, and United States
/ Courts possess power 10 enforce the
same. The Court also ruled that con-
tracts stipuIating for payments IN
/ that currency cannot be regarded as
made in aid of foreign invasion in the
! one caSe, or of domestic in5urrectiOn
/ in the other. They have no necessary
! relations to the hostile Government
! whether invading or insurgent. They
( are transactions in the ordinary course
of civil society, and though they may
! indirectly or remotely promote the
J ends of the unlawful, the Government
/ is without blame except when proved
! to have been entered into with an ac-
tual intent to further the invasion or
insurrectiOn.
Supreme Court No. 10-6, Ferman
Green ct al, plaintiff in error VS.. the
I Clerk of Davidson county, tennessee,
the error to the Supreme Court OF Ten
neSSee.
Justice Davis delivered the opinion
reversing the decree of the Court be-
low, and holding that the State was
bound to receive in payment for taxes
bills of the State Bank of Tennessee,
/ created by the Legislature of 1888,
I Notwithstanding the repeal of the act,
so far as their guaranty was concerned,
! by the reconstructed Legislature Of
/ 1865.
The total debt, principal and interest,
to date, including coupons due but not
I presented for payment, Is s, 2,6f9,654,-
/ 747 26. Amount in the Treasury
I coin, $1l6, ,994,7Il SO; currency, 81, ,24S,-
/ 295 1tl sinking fund, in United States
coin interest bonds and accrued inter
est thereon, SIS, ,260, ,00i ~; other Uni
ted States coin interest bonds pur-
/ chased, and accrued interest thereon,
I $46, ,O2O, ,746 O5; total, $lSS, 523, 764 80.
/ Debt less amount in the Treasury on
/ the lst of October, s., ,s67, 1885, ,072 II;
/ decrease of the debt during the past
month, 81, ,65S, 400 IS; decrease Of debt
since March Ist, 1869, $64, 49,, ,O70 IS.
/ TNOTE.-The above debt report came
ineorFectly from the Edst.--REP.
WASHINGTON, November 1.-The
/ following has been furnished from the
/ Legation of the Argentine Republic
in this city:
" 4 report having been published in
several of the leading journals of the
country, in which the name and faith
of Gen. NJ. f. McMahon, the United
States Minister to Paraguay, are in
( voked to insure the American people
that the atrocities of Lopez, the Para
guayan dictator, not only do not eX-
ceed, but cannot even compare with
I manding the allied army, operating
around Paraguay, l have been au-
th0Fized BY the Minister PlenipOten-
tiaFy and every Extraordinary of the
Argentine Republic to this country to
protest against that gratuitOus calum-
ny, covered as it is by anonymous
publications, and offensive TO the
honor of the Argentine army, of
whose late and present comlhahdeF-
in-chief am a close relation.
(Signed) " b. MEFERRIO VERDIA,
"Ofthe Argentine legation"
Treasurer Spinner will recommend,
in his report, that the amount re-
ceived and credited as Conscience
Fund and THAI received from the sale
of specimen fractional currency, which
is-not redeemable, be transferred to g
sinking fund and applied to the pay
ment OF the national debt. The for
mer is nearly $44, 900 and the latter
nearly $4,000.
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
| Secretary Boutwell, has refused to
revoke his decision not to allow the
Currency Sixes-i. e. Pacific Railroad
honds-tO be used as a basis for bank
ing purposes.
During the past fiscal year seven
hundred and sixty millions of letters
passed through the mails of the Uni
ted States, being an increase of forty
millions over any previous year. This
is almost twenty letters per head for
every man, woman and child in the
United States.
Another squad was arrested Friday
in Richmond, being one Government
tobacco inspector, and two manufac-
turers. Over seven thousand dollars
in counterfeit stamps were taken from
them.
The Secretary Of the Navy has is
sued orders to the commandant of the
Navy Yard in Brooklyn, to turn over
to the civil authorities Paymaster's
clerk BOgart, recently tried by court
martial, for embeZzlement, fraud and
deSertion.
Great complaint is made by claim
ants and attorneys having business
before the United States Court of
Claims, at the delay constantly at
tending the trial of cases. 1t is
claimed that, as at present organized,
/. the Court is simply a sinecure for the
Judge; that adiOurnments are made
from time to time, and that it is i'm
possible to obtain adiudieations, even
when everything has been estah-
lished.
State Senator Wilson, of Los An
gelOs county, California, arrived in
Washington during the early part OF
the week. He came here as the spe-
.cial representative of the winters and
distillers of Los Angeles county, and
Southern California, to endeavor to
secure them from the revenue author
tiles modification ofthe late instruc-
tions issued to the district assessors
and collectors in relation to the man
ufacture of wine.
Commission Delano and Secre' a v
Boutwell, have been in conference in
reference to the continued attacks on
revenue officers in the South. As the
civil authorities pay no attention tC
the Outrages, it is probable that the
military authorities will be ordered tC
see that the officers are protected in
the discharge of their duties.
. 1t is ascertained at the Revenue Blu.
reau that since the beginning of the
internal revenue system not more thar
third OF the revenue from tobacco
has been realized in the States of Nir.
ginia and North Carolina. At first
the frauds were confined to smuggling
but lately they have been effected al.
most wholly by counterfeit stamps
The military continue to patrol the
States, and such other measures have
been adopted by Commissioner Delant
that the combinations are daily being
broken up.
When the President sold his house
in Washington to Gen. Sherman, he
! gave his wife twelve thousand dollar:
! Of the proceeds, which she forthwith
transferred to Corbin, then present ir