Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is.
The amount of fractional currency received
from the printer for the week ending to-day,
was S743.4S7.
Shipments to New York 100000; to
Boston, 100000; to Philadelphia, $4,000;
to st. Louis, $25, 000 to the national banks
and others, $28S, 425.
Treasurer Spinner holds in trust as security
for the national banks circulation S342, 425,-
050, and for public deposits Sls,99l 900.
Mutilated bills burned during the week $751;
23O; total amount burned S19,075,137 bank
currency issued for bills destroyed during the
week, Sl16,1l0; total amount issued therefor
SIS ,0O5, 200; balance due for mutilated notes,
$l69,937; bank circulation, outstanding,
1928, 750,S37; fractional currency redeemed
and destroyed during the week, $G3l 100.
The Committee on Banking and Currency
was in session to-day examining witnesses on
the subject Of the gold panic in New York
last summer.
S. W. Marsh, late prominent clerk in the
Treasury Department, was found nsensible
in the street last night, and died this morning.
The Committee on Banking and Currnncy,
| instructed to inquire into the New York gold
panic, heard to-day the testimony of Messrs.
Hodgkin & Burd, bankers of New York, Mr..
| Benedict, President of the Gold Exchange
Bank, and Mr.. Stout, late Cashier of the
Tenth National Bank of New York. James
Fisk, Jr., Jay Gould and Mr.. Corbin, have
been summoned to appear before the Commit
| tee on Monday.
To-day Elish II. Allen was introduced to
| the President by Secretary Fish, and delivered
his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary from
| the Kingdom of Hawaii. The customary ad-
dresses were made.
| The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue has
e Ill.
the following is the substance The blank
| forms for the annual assessments on incomes
of 1869 are now ready for delivery, and orders
| for the same should be forwarded at once.
If any blanks remain on hand from last year
| they may be used by changing the dates to
| correspond with the form of 1870. The value
| of coin at the close of the year should also be
changed. The value in New York. Dec,
| 1869, was l20 1t is advisable to commence
assessments Immediately in all cases, when
the parties are willing to make returns. If a
taxpayer is willing to make a return the
assessor can not make an assessment. En-
force any penalty for delinquency until after
| the first day of March.
The Assistant Assessor shall be in
structed to leave blank form "a with every
person who in any probability has a taxable
income, and to make list of the persons
with whom blanks are thus left. They should
also require all these forms to be returned
| filled up in detail subscribed and sworn TO-
The form prescribed to for declaring that a
person is not possessed of an income of $1,000,
as provided in sect. 1l8 of the compilation, by
making and rendering detailed statement of
| form "a.
| A letter from Zanzibar, from Consul Webb,
received at the State department, dated Oct.
| I'd, states that letter had been received at
the British Consulate, from DR.. Livingston
| dated May 30. DIR. Livingston was at Ugigi,
on Yanyanyika Lake, where he had found his
supplies. He was in good health and spirits
and proposed travelling to the windward OF
Yanyanyika until some bOatmen and further
supplies for which he had sent reached Ugigi.
| An early adjournment of congress is favored
and considered practicable by number of
members of congress, who say that with in
dustry necessary business can be finished by
the first of May.
| The committee on naval affairs has been
considering the question of relative rank and
are only waiting to receive the report of the
board on that subject before embodying their
views in a form to be acted upon in the House.
Information just received from Montana
indicates that the most resolute measures to
execute the criminal laws of that territory
against the murderers of Malcome Clark, a
prominent citizen of that territory, have been
| adopted. He was murdered by some Black
| Feet Indians, who were indicted.
| On the 23d of Dec. Major Sully and Capt.
Pope, accompanied by United States Marshal
Wheeler, and an adequate military force, went
to Helena on the Teton river, to demand
| from the Black Feet Indians the murderers OF
Clark, and if necessary to arrest them by