Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-03
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WASHIN GTON.
Government at a Stand-StiIl.
Bank Suspension at NewYOrk
The Nathan Murder Mystery.
Latest fr0m EOrth Carolina.
The Grand Junction EmGute.
The Usual News from Cuba.
WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-The returns at
the census ofi,e indicates that by the 18th
of August about half the country will be
enumerated, and it is thought the lst of
September will witness a substantial COM
pletion.
Applications for New Banks.
About two hundred applications fol
banks under the new currency law, have
been received by the Comptroller of Cur
rency. The majority are from Illinois,
While almost the entire number Of appli-
cations are from the West and South, sew
eral were received from New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Public Business in a Bad Way.
The construction given by Attorney Gen.
eral Akerman to the new law requiring
unexpended balances to be turned into the
Treasury is creating even more trouble
than was at first feared. The construction
of Mr.. Akerman has evidently given it a
much wider application than its trainers
contemplated. The object was to prevent
such payments as were made by Mr.
Welles, the Secretary of the Navy, when
the pay Of the navy was increased one
third by simple order and by which large
extra services had been paid for by several
departments out of the appropriations made
for other purposes. But under the late
decision retired officers and those awaiting
orders in the army or navy can not be paid.
The drawbacks of internal revenue or Gus
toms unsettled, prior TO July l, of this year,
are in the same condition. The War De-
partmens finds itself in great embarrass-
ment, as all pending settlements for trans
rNnrtotTnro ~ military gfnrpS aud trnnOC
suspended. This affects the Western lines
of railroads and steamboats,, and compa.
nies Transporting supplies upon the plains.
A very large number of contracts for sup
plies furnished to the different departments
which have been filed, and papers for set
tlement which are nearly ready, are also
effected. The matter has already deranged
all branches of public business.
North Carolina.
Gen. Hunt has been ordered
to take command of all the
troops in North Carolina, and left for
Raleigh last evening. His instructions are
general, to aid the civil authorities in pre-
serving the peace, and as he looks to Gov.
Holden for directions, he is virtually under
his command. It does notappear that any
request in an official form has been made
to the President for these troops which
comes within the purview of the construc-
ton of a domestic insurrection or invasion.
The election comes of on Thursday, when
seven members Of the Forty first Congress
are to be chosen. The Raleigh Std15Gdrd,
received here tonight, advises its friends to
arm themselves and be on their guard on
the eve Of the election.
COIOrcd Members of Congress.
The prospect is pretty certain for two
colored members of the House of the For
ty-Second Congress. James Harris, a
black man, it is said, will be elected on
Thursday, in the Fourth North Carolina
District r. B. Elliott, the colored Assist
ant Adjutant General Of South Carolina,
has been nominated in the Fourth District,
and, as it has a colored majority Of several
thousand, his election IS not a matter Of
doubt The contest was between Hoge
(white), the present member and himself
dispatch saws that when Elliott was de-
clared nominated on Saturday, the crowd
lifted him on their shoulders and carried
him around the lobby and into the South
Carolina Senate chamber, where, amid a
scene Of great enthusiasm he made
speech.