The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-11-02
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WASHINGTON, November
Sinking Fund.

WASHINGTON, November /.
sinking Fund.
Treasurer Spinner will recommend In
his report that the amount received ana
credited as s'conscience fund" and
that received from the sale of specimens
of fractional currency which are not
redeemable be transferred to sinking
fund and applied to the payment of the
national debt. The former 10 nearly
STA, 900 and the latter nearly $23, 900. -
The Paragaayan Trouble. > 4
The following has been furnished
from the legation of the Argentine Re.
public in this city:
A report having been publish,
ed in several of the leading jour,
nails of this country. in which the
name and faith of General w. F. Nc
Mahon, United States Minister to far-
sguay, are involved, to assure the Amer'
can people that the atrocities OF Lopez
the Paraguayan dictator, not only oo
net exceed, but cannot even COMPANY
vi,h those committed by the General
Commanding the Allied army operatin 6
AGAINST Paraguay, / have been author,
led nv the Minister Plenipotentiary and
Envoy Extraordinary Of the Argentine
Rebublic to this country to protest
AGAINST that calumny, covered, as III Is,
hy AN ANONYMOUS publication that is
offensive to the honor of the Argentine
array of whose late and present Com
rNand er.in- ChiefI am close relative.
TSigped,1 b. MITERI Y. VEDIA,
OF the Argentine Legation.
Recruits TO 20 West.
An order has been issued from the
War Department that a detachment OF
one hundred recruits be sent from the
barracks at Newport, Kentucky, to Fort
Randall. Dakota, and detachment
from Fort Columbus, New York, to Forts
Stephenson, Rice and Sully, Dakota
all for assignment to the Twenty-seconc
Infantry. d,
MIR. Belknap 4,
Made his appearance at the War DC
partment at zine this morning and the
oath of Office was administered. at ter
O'Clock the officers of the army called
and were introduced by General Sher'
man.
Pacific Railroad Com m fasteners.
The commissioners of the Union and
Central Pacific raiiroade have made
their report to Secretary of Interior Cox.
In concluding, they desire to state that
both Companies are doing large
amount of work on their respective
roads and are day by day bringing them
nearer to the standard required by law
This great line, the value of which to
the country is inestimablo and in which
every citizen should feel pride, has
been built in about half the time allow
ed by Congress, and is now good and
reliable means of communication be-
tween Omaha and Sacramento, well
equipped and fully prepared to carry
passengers and freight with safety ana
dispatch, comparing, in these respects,
favorably WITT the majority OF the hrst
class roads in the United States.
supreme Court Decision.
In the Supreme Court to day the opin-
ION delivered by Chief Justice Chase, in
the case of bloomington vs. Smith "
Hasly. in which the Court decided a
promissory note given in payment. for
property purchased at Montgomery
Alabama, in 1864, when the authority Of
the United States was excluded from
that mart of the State, and the only
currency in use was Confederate treas
. a., -nias is payable in Confederate
Notes alone, and the United State:
Courts possess power to enforce the
same. The Court also ruled that con
tracts STIMULATING for payments in tina,
currency cannot be regarded as made In
aid OF foreign invasion III the one case
or of domestic Instruction in the other
They have no necessary relation To the
hostile Government whether invading
or insurgent. They are transactions in
the ordinary course OF civil society, and
they may indirectly and remotely point
tothe ends of the unlawful Government
and they are without blame except
when proved to have been entered into
with actual intent to fnrther the inya-
sion or insurrection.
The Public DebI Statement.
The public debt statement is pub
lished to-day. The following is a re-
cspitulatlon
Debt bearing interest in coin--Bonds
at per cent, 1921 $50, 300; bonds at &
per cent, 81 $50 ,347 800, Total, S2,lO7,,
936, 800.
Debt bearing interest in lawful money
Certificates at per cent, Si7 $40, 900;
navy pension fund at 3 per cent, Sl4,-
100000. Total, SOL 100000 Interest,
Sl,2l1, 900.
Debt on which interest has ceased
since maturity, Si.3S9,9SG
Debt bearing no iuteIeSt--Delnsnd
and legal tender notes, $3.50, IL. 258 80:
postal and fractional currency, S3,7G3,-
44,236; certificates OF gold deposited,
81, 1871 $50. Total, Si2l $50 ,22JSS.
Total amount outstanding, 81 J9J,-
S47,0O7.52. Interest, $50, cU7, 1854.
Total debt, principal aud interest, to
date, including coupons due not pre-
sented 70. payment, S2,6649 GOD, 74l 20.
Amount in Treasury-Coin, SIG, 994,-
7ll.69; currency, S,2iS, 295.24; sinking
fund in United States coin interest
bonds and accrued interest thereon,
SIS, 200 0Ol47; other United States coin
interest bonds purchased and accrued
interest thereon, $40 .02O, 1860. Total,
$l55, 523,754.9O.
Debt less amount in the treasury,
81, ,l3l, 1895; debt less amount IN
the treasury OF the LIST nit, s. ,46S, 49,
WILL; decrease of debt during the past
month, s7,363, $50 IS; decrease of debt
since March /, 1869, S64 1872 ,O70.65.