Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-03
WASHINGTON.
RecapituIatiSn Of Public Debt Statement--.
About the Tariff BiII--The Funding Bill
The HOrmons-- Affalrs---Pacific
TeIegrsph---The Southwest Pass--SoutE-
era Loyalists to be Unidentified.

WASHINGTON, May 2.-The following is
a recapitulation of the public debt state
ment for the menth ending April 80, 1870:
Debt bearing interest in coin bonds at five
per cent, S22l, ,5s9, 800; bonds, five per
cent, 81, $50 ,355 900; amount outstanding,
S2I7, ,943, 200; interest, S52, 81 ,77S Go; debt
bearing interest in lawful money, certifi-
Gates three per cent, S45, ,5S5, coo; navy
pension funds, three per cent, $l4, 600, 600;
amount outstanding, $50, ,5S5, 600; interest.
$780, ,444 SO; debt on which interest has
ceased since maturity-amount outstand-
ing, So, ,790 567 80; interest, 1890, ,553 30; debt
bearing no interest; demand and legal
tender notes, 1856, ,l07, ,22l fractional cur
rency, SS,553, ,6S2 10; certificates of gold
certificates, S3S, ,SO4, 400; total amount
outstanding, so, ,O05, > zoe, ,443; total interest,
$50, ,622.775 20 total debt, principal and
interest to date, including interest due
and unpaid, 2,654, 1913, asa p; amount of
sT5an in the treasury, SIZE, ,525 ,2l3; cur
rency, $685., ,409, 406 sinking fund in
United States coin interest bonds pur-
chashed, and accrued interest thereon,
81, $50, $50; debt less amount in the treas
ury, 81, ,420, PSI, ,433 AZ; debt less amount
in the treasury on the 1st ult., 81, ,432 .562,-
l27 "A; decrease of debt during the past
month, II, ,697, ,793 80; decrease of debt
since March 1st, 1870, 81, ,424, JAP 50.
Mr.. Schenck has given up all hope of
getting the tariff bill through the House,
but intends to continue the debate until
warm weather commences. Judd be-
lieves the House will table the bill, and
is not discouraged by the vote on aat4r-
dav.
The funding bill is under consideration,
but no conclusion has yet been reached.
The tariff bill for the present is the main
thing to get at.
Mr.. Cullum has a letter from Gener-
al Shaffer, in which he says it is of the
utmost importance that his bill abOlishing
pOlygamy should be passed. Without it
there is no hope of accomplishing any
thing in the territory. He says nothing
about the resistance of the MormOns at
their BGzt,
The Government has, mp to this morn
ing, received no official dispatches in the
least degree confirming or strengthening
the report that the volunteers have seised
Moro Castle, as recently reported. There
is no doubt, however, that the volunteers
control to a great degree the Spanish au-
thorities.
The bill to incorporate the Pacific Sub
marine Telegraph Company and to IA
cilitate telegraphing between America
and Asia meets with much favor. No op-
position has yet been expressed against
it. Week after next Cyrus W. Field will
return 70 Washington to give informs
ton on the subject before several of the
Committee.
The Senate Committee on Claims re-
ported In favor of paying to Creery, Tay-
lOr and others $50, 900 for clearing the
southwest pass of the Mississippi river,
and also to Southern loyalists for prop
erty taken for war purposes by the Fed
eralnrmy.i..
Halstead still fires into McLean-not
savagely, but smartly.
Pool offered yesterday bill to enforce
the Fifteenth Amendment,
Many distinguished Methodist divines
left Louisville yesterday for Memphis.
A Chicago gentleman has purchased the
celebrated trOtter a'chless for SIS, 900.
Railroad fare has been increased from
Louisville East and lessened toward the
West