Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-11
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 10.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug 10.
U. s. BONDS.
The secretary of the treasury to-day addressed
the following to the national banks
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Aug. 10, ISL
SIR: | take the liberty to inform you that ar
engagements have been made for the disposal of
the remainder of the bonds offered by the sec
rotary of the treasury on the 2Sth of February
last, being about one hundred and thirty mil
lions of dollars. The arrangement is subject to
the condition that the national banks of the
United States shall have the opportunity within
sixty days from this date to subscribe for any
sum or sums not exceeding fifty millions of dol
lars in all. Banks making or obtaining subscrip-
tons payable in coin will be designated by the
secretary of the treasury as repositories of pub
lie money upon the usual condition of placing
in the hands of the treasurer of the United
States bonds of the United States for security of
such deposits. At the commencement of each
month notice will be given of the redemption
of the amount of bonds equal to the amount
of subscription in coin for the preceding month,
interest to cease in ninety days from the date
of such notice as bonds specified shall mature.
Deposits, will be withdrawn from the several
banks propOrtionately. A commission of one
eighth of one per cent. will be allowed upon all
subscriptions made or obtained by national
banks. Very respectfully,
Secretary.
The following letter was to-day sent to agents
heretofore designated for the sale of bonds of the
new loan; Negotiations having been perfected
for the sale of the remainder of the two hun
dred millions Of the five per cent bonds offered
TO the public by letter of the secretary of the
treasury, on the twenty-eighth of February last,
the authority of agents heretofore designated,
is limited to the sale of equal amounts of four
and half and five per cent bonds, or equal
amounts of four and five per cent bonds.
MALICIOUS STORY SPOILED.
Commissipnnr nouU1aaS baXnu 1afn hppu
reported delaulter to the government, to the
amount Of three thousand dollars, it has been
ascertained that when he was collector of the
10th district Of Pennsylvania his deputy stole
from the office seventeen thousand dollars
Douglass recovered nine thousand dollars from
the deputy's SuretieS and paid this into the
treasury together with other thousands, which
he realized by the sale aud mortgage of his own
private property Credit has been given him
for S1100 additional, thus reducing the balance
due the government to $1650 only. A claim
Tor relief is now pending before congress, as in
Other similar cases, congress having recently
relieved public officers, the latest instances
being the present custom collector and his pro-
gressor Of Baltimore, where it was shown they
had been robbed by deputies through no neglect
of their own.
PRESIDENT GRANT AND THE SCOTT CENTEN-
President Grant sent the following answer to
the presiding officer of the Scott centennial cele
bratlon at Edinburgh:
LONG BRANCH, n. j., Aug. 10, 1871.
To the Right Honorable the Earl of Dalkeitb
Edinburgh, Scotland:
Owing to absence from home | did not receive
your congratulations and expressions of friend
ship for the American people in time to send
reply TO he read at the centennial celebration of
that eminent scholar and historian whose birth
you commemorate. The American people who
have been instructed and edited by Sir Walter
SCOTS works Of history, poetry and fiction will
highly appreciate your cordial expressions of
friendship and reciprocate them in all sincerity.
(Sgned) U. S. GRANT.
SUNDRY ITEMS.
The total number of applications thus far for
pensions, for service in the war of 1872, is
&c, $40
The subscriptions to the new loan to-day
amounted to $4,000; the receipts of internal
revenue were S349,500
Parties interested deny that Mrs. Perkins has
sold her claim against the Russian govern
ment
Eighteen new national banks, having an az
gregate capital Of S2,390,000, have been author
lied since July 1st