Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-26
WASHINGTON.
DISTRIBUTION OF CURRENCY.

DISTRIBUTION OF CURRENCY.
WASHINGTON, July 25.-AbOut
eight hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars will be required for the quarterly
interest on the funded loan due Au-
gust first. This money will not be
sent direct to money centres, as here
tOfOre, and the change made in send
ing the interest direct to the bond
holder meets with favor in the West.
That section of country has always
complained that New York has had
an excess Of floating debt, owing to
Government disbursements being
made there, and, therefore, rates OF
exchange were fixed at a low rate in
New York, while in the Western
States they were at high rate.
FURLOUGHs.
The liberal system Of granting fur
loughs, which heretofore prevailed in
the Treasury Department, among
heads of bureaus and other officers,
hiss been curtailed. The Secretary
has issued an order stating that no
more than thirty days absence in his
department will be allowed in any
fiscal year, under any circumstances
whatever, and that no appeal from
this decision will be considered.
SMUGGLING.
Attempts TO smuggle goods along
the Canadian border are becoming
very frequent, and the relugatiOns are
becoming more stringent and are en-
q, forced more rigidly by the Treasury
Department. The Secretary has re-
Gently refused in large number of
cases to grant applications for the
release of goods seized for attempts to
evade the duties, most Of the in
stances being where the goods were
discovered on the persons Of smugglers.
Only the payment of the appraised
value of the goods will hereafter effect
their release.
INJUNCTION WANTED.
1t is stated that seventeen citizens
of Washington, who are opposed to
the improvement bill recently passed
by the District Legislature, have
united in applying to the court for an
Injunction upon the issueof bonds.
STOCK DIVIDENDS.
Secretary Boutwell, yesterday, in
transmitting to Commissioner Pleas
OntOn the opinion of the Solicitor of
the Treasury in relation to the cOllee-
ton OF the tax on coupons, said: "I
accept the Solicitors conclusions, and
1 have to request that you will COM
municate this decision to the officers
of Internal Revenue for their guidance
calling their special attention TO the
fact thar it applies only to the interest
on bonds paid previous to the decision
of May IL, lS71, and not 10 dividends
upon stock"
CANAL BOATS MUST BEIICENsED.
The Solicitor Of the Treasury has
decided that canal boats entering nav
igable waters of the United States
must he enrolled and licensed.
THE FIRST sTEABoAT INGINEER.
Charles Dyke, engineer on the Rob.
ert Fulton, the first steamer to Al
bany, died yesterday, aged eighty
five years. Mr.. Dyke was also engi.
neer on the first steamer down the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New
Orleans.
KU-KLUX TESTIMONY.
The testimony of Hon. ThOs. Har-
deman, eX-member of Congress, of |
Macon, Georgia, before the Ku-Klux |
Committee, was very brief. He said |
he had known of no Ku-Klux organi- |
ZatiOn in his district, and he had not
heard Of its existence there. Instead |
Gt cOlOred people being intimidated at |
the polls, cOlOred persons had intimi- |
dated white persons and taken posses !
sion Of The polls. There was no viola |
ton of law except in one instance. A
number Of negroes threatened 70 pun
ish another negro for voting the Dem |
Ocratic ticket, but the row was sup.
pressed.
THE CROPS.
Returns 10 the Department of Agri- |
culture up to July lst, show the acre
age Of sugar-cane to be greater this |
year than last in South Carolina, |
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana |
and Iexas-the increase ranging from !
i've TO fifteen per cent.-while in Mis- |
sissippi the acreage is two per cent. |
and IN Missouri twenty-five per cent. |
less than last year.
All the States, except Mississippi, |
report crops in better condition than |
last year.
In acreage Of tobacco New York |
shows fOrty-tWO per cent. increase |
over last year, Illinois fOrty-five, |
Pennsylvania tWenty-seven, WiscOn- |
6ALA I'LL Alg NOAAtlbAIAt oAANC0ns huAAC Il
Kentucky reports thirteen per cent. |
decrease, Virginia five, Tennessee
seven. Other sOuthern States do not |
vary much.
The condition of crops is generally /
below the average, except in Con-
necticut, Alabama and Texas.
IMMIGRANT ARRIVALS AT BOSTON. |
From official returns made by the
Bureau Of Statistics, il appears that |
during the quarter ending June 30,
1871, there arrived at the port Of BOs-
ton, from foreign Ountries, II, ,44O 4
passengers, of whom 6032 were males,
44lO females.
WELTMAN, THE DEFAULTER.
The friends of Weltman, late De-
putty Collector Of Customs for Sayan-
nah, Georgia, have arranged to make
good to the Government the entire /
amount OF his detalcatiOD-$80O0