The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-30
AFFAIRS AT THE CAPITAL.
The Pension Bureau Frauds.
The Alaska Fur Contract.
LATEST NEWS BY CABLE.
ETC., ETC.. ETC.. ETC., Etc.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Currency statement.

Despatch to the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, July 3O-The following state
ment of the United States currency outstanding
at this date has been prepared at the Treasury
United States notes, old issue, $106, 026; United
States notes, new issue, S279, 125, 40; United
States notes, issue of 1869, SIC, 874, $50; one-year
5 per cent. notes, $156, 357; two-year s per cents,
SIS, 4S0, $50; two-year 5 per cent. coupon notes,
So, nc, $50; compound interest notes, $2,19l,67O;
fractional currency, first issue, "a, 476, 995'S7;
second issue, 3,273, 191 '03; third issue, $9,972-
256'52; fourth issue, first series, 1S,Il5,2il'O
fourth issue, second series, $3, 600. Total,
$39S, 303, 64248.
Receipts of fractional currency for the week,
$500, 600. Shipments for the week. Notes, 1885,
33S; fractional currency, 1921, 34S; mutilated bank
amount burned, $26, 321 ,288; bank currency
issued for bills destroyed during the week,
1928, TO; total amount issued therefor, $25,-
9S4, 1856; balance due for mutllated notes, $780,
1858; bank circulation outstanding at this date,
$299, 537, 1854.
Treasurer Spinner holds as security for circu-
lating notes $342, 109, $50, and for deposits of
public money SIC, S16, 500. Fractional currency
$520,000.
Lieutenant-Co Commanders David G. Woodrow
and P. F. Harrington; Midshipmen john d.
c. Nye, NJ. T. Wright, Edward N. Hughes,
Charles E.. Freeland, William p. Conway.
George w Holman, Thomas and G. Spencer, and
Assistant Surgeon Homer L. Law are ordered to
the California. Master a.. g. O'Colby is ordered
to the schooner America. Captain Thomas G.
Corbin is detached from ordnance duty at
Philadelphia and ordered to command the Cali
fornia. Lieutenant-Co Commander Charles s.
Cation, Lieutenants Charles III. Black and j. X.
P Raysdale are detached from the Naval
Academy and ordered to the California.
Surgeon Edward s. Matthews is detached
from the naval rendezvous at Boston, and
ordered to the Shenandoah.
Revenue Cutters.
The following were the bids opened yesterday
in tie Treasury Department for building two
revenue cutters, one side-wheel, of wood, 250
tons, Tor the Pacific coast, and one screw pro.
| peller for the Atlantic coast, $50 tons, the latter
| of iron or wood, as the Secretary may decided
Westervelt g. Rankin, of San Francisco, side.
wheeler, $4,000 in coin; B. Marcucci, of do.
$685. 600 in coin; Middlemas g. Booth, of do,
$4,000 in coin; Thomas Stack, Greenport, N,
Y, ~side-wheeler, $64, 76O; Dialogue & Wood,
YORK, 80, G0G, Harry Whitaker. Buffalo, Il. Z.
$s5, 100; screw steamer, $50 tons, Dialogue
: Wood, iron, for $4,000; wood, for $4,000
Briefly, Hilman e. Streeker, Philadelphia, wood
for $S3,250; Pussy, Jones 81 Co., Wilmington
Del, iron, for $75 5000. The latter will get the
contract for the screw steamer. The bids fol
the side. wheeler have been referred to a specia'
commission of officers of the revenue marine.
The Pension Bureau Frauds.
fpeetal Despdtcht TO The Euentng Telegraph.
WASHINGTON, July 30.-The persons most
likely to be implicated in the recent frauds dis.
covered at the Pension Bureau are Roderick r
Butler, member of Congress from Tennessee
and Mr.. Wimpey, member of Congress elect
from Georgia. Officers have been sent to Ten.
nessee to arrest Butler. His son is also impli
Gated, and will be arrested. The amount of the
frauds has not been ascertained.
The Alaska Seal Contract.
The Secretary of the Treasury has awarded
the contract for killing the fur seals of Alaska
to the Alaska Commercial Company.