The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-04-29

careful estimate of expenditures. The opera
tlons OF the sinking commissioners have been
ngniy satisfactory. Nearly all the floating
dept OF the late corporations OF Georgetown
been paid. The funded debt of the District is
now S9,Ol6, 891, and is gradually being re1uced
by purchases of a sinking fund. An appio-
priation of S250,000 is asked to enabled the
commissioners to continue their purch ases lor
the ensuing year. The total amount OF ac-
counts audited by the board of work is $6,UO,-
62l, and OF cash payments SS,199, 8l5. ieav nng
outstanding Indebtedness OF 81, $40, S06. Inc
cost of completing the outstanding contracts Is
S474, 305, against what are due from assess
ments on private property, and s., 179549 pc
sides $913,000 appropriated by Congress for the
next fiscal year.
Supreme Court Decisions.
The Supreme Court has decided in case OF
Ripey's administrator vs. Railway Passenger
Insurance Co., of Hartford, that there eau be
no recovery of the amount of the policy, as the
deceased was not at the time of his death on a
public or private conveyance, but after travel
ling from Grand Haven to Dalton, Mich, was
walking home after midnight and was waylaid
and beaten to death.
Court also decided that the license tax impos-
ed by the city of Mobile on the Southern Ex-
press Co., is constitutional The tax had been
resisted on the ground that as the Company
was engaged in the carrying business beyond
the limits Oh the State it was unconstitutional
constitution, which vests in Congress the pow
er to regulate commerce.
The Court ruled in case from New York
that an officer of the Internal revenue making
a seizure under authority of law, is not a trans
gressor, and reverSes the Judgment against the
Collector recovered on that form of auction.
The Court held in the caseof the Union Bank
Oh new Orleans for recovery of the balance of
an account anterior to the war that Gen. Banks
mad no authority to order the debt Of the Plant
Bank "a rai1 TO- ba milf aru. an
thoritles, and that obedience to that order did
not exonerate the Union Bank.
Inc Court then adjourned to Thursday when
1t IS expected to adjourn for the term. Justice
Miller proposes to sail for Europe Saturday.
An Expedition.
An expedition will be organized to be as
sembled at and in readiness to depart from
Fort Rice, Dakota territory, on the 10Th of
June next, for the protection of the engineer
ing parties of the Northern Pacific railroad,
making surveys for the location of the line of
that road between the Missouri river and the
Rocky Mountains. The expedition will be
constituted as follows:
Rehabilitation of ten companies of the 7th
cavalry under command of the 1t Colonel OF
the regiment.
fantry of the Sth regiment and six companies
of the 9th regiment, under command OF LIT.
Col. T.. p. Bradley of the 9th regiment.
Naturalization of five companies of the
22d reg iment of infantry, under command OF
the senior Captain; two of the companies to be
drawn from Fort Randall and two from Fort
Sully, and designated by the respective fort
commanders.
Standardization of four companies of the
18th infantry two from Fort Rice, one from
Fort Lincan, and one from Camp Hancock,
under command of Major r. E. A. Crompton
of the 18th infantry.
fifth-Detatchmen of 70 Indian scouts au :
thorized by special orders, and in addition FIVE
oh FRO, For md IN de
to be selected by the respective post command
ers from those of their command who accom-
panied last years Yellowstone expedition.
Sixth-A detachment of artillery sufficient
to man two Rodman rfled guns, to be com
manded by an officer sci. cted and detailed
by the commander of the expedition. The
men of the detachment will be selected from
the battalion Of the 18th and Odd infantry,
hereinbeforc designated as portion OF the ex-
petition.
Col D. s. Stanley of the 22a infantry is as
signed to the command OF the expedition. Elk
cepting such staff officers as may hereafter be
assigned to him, he will select the requisite
staff from his command.
The expedition will leave Fort r ce with six
ty days subsistence and forage. Subsequent ar
rangements will be made for further supply of
the command either from depot to be estab-
lshed on the Yellowstone or from Fort Bufford.
Over 200 siX-mule teams will accompany the
expedition, and authority is given to hire such
u nunDer OF private teams as Will Dc Required
for the use of the sick of the command. Not
less than five ambulanceS will be taken. The
ammunition allowance is fixed at 200 rounds
per man for cavalry and infantry, forty rounds
to be carried habitually in their cartridge boxes
and the remainder in bulk in wagons. The
commanding officer will determine the amount
of artillery ammunition to be taken.
The expedition will remain in the field until
the 10th of Oct if its services are required that
length of time and may at the discretion of the
commanding officer be kept out till the first Of
November, but no later This expedition has
been organized by Gen. Terry, commanding the
department OF Darkota under instructions Of
the General of the army.
Closing up Banks
The Comptroller of the Currency has declar-
eda dividend of 80 per cent. in favor of the
creditors of the Unadella National Bank; also
dividend of % per cent. in favor of the cred
itors of the Scandinavian National Bank of
Chicago. The Comptroller also has directed the
receiver of the Sth National Bank of New York
to make a requisition of 81 per cent. upon the
shareholders to supply the deficiency required
for the full payment OF the creditors A small
requision is also to be made upon shareholders
of the Farmers and Citizens National Bank of
Brooklyn for the same purpose.
The Atlantic National Bank was examined
in February and October, 1872. The reports of
the examiners show that the capital of the
bank was seriously impaired. The Comptroller
directed that no further dividends be declared
and accordingly no dividends were made during
the year 1872. Bad debts to the amount of $32
400 were charged off during the same year. The
defalcation is supposed to have occurred from
the use Of special deposits and collaterals by
the cashier