The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-24
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the insurgents Of Oontrerag have been signal
Iy defeated. A whole battalion mutinied
a ainst the rebel leader, Lopez Jordan, and
submitted to the federal authorities- -ls
1t Is reported at Rome that the financial
crisis in America has caused great excitement
| at the Vatican. It has never been kept secret
that great part OF the money received from
Peters Pence and part Of the private proper
| ty of prelates, has been deposited in Ameri-
can banks by Cardinal AntoneIn.
! A letter from Padong, Sumatra. says the
| second expedition to Acheen to leave in Octo-
| Der, will consist Of a feet of thirty ships and
| steamers, and from $4,000 10 $4,000 men,
There viii probably be hard lighting on the
| first landing, and perhaps some heavy loss of
life, but the AchiRese win find ont they can't
stand against mitTsilleuse and breech-Ioaders
GENERAL. ...s-.G-
The secretary Of the treasury has deter
mined to take no further action at present to-
ward the replacement Of worn and rnutiIated
and successfully oounterfeited circulating
notes Of na innal banks. Congress, at its last
session, appropriated six hundr-d Thousand
dollars for the engraving and preparing of these
new notes, the government TO be reimbursed
through payments by the banks for such of
the notes IS they might take but it is optional
with banks whether they take any Of the new
notes or not, and therefore only hfteen or
sixteen applications have been ma - by banks
for new tens that are now ready for Issue. As
previously stated In these dispatches, the
banks are generally dissatisfied, some Of them
holding that If they are to pay for a reissue
of their notes they ought to be allowed to Sc
leot their own Designs and have their notes
engraved and printed at such places and By
such respectable and reliable bank note On
graver and printers ss they might choose to
employ. The secretary seems to be disgusted
With the whole matter, and viii let it drop for
the time being, in the hope that he viii be re-
lieved from further trouble through the &C
ton OF congress at the next session.
The board of examiners for the treasu-
~ department, will hold a series OF examina-
tions, commencing Oct. 28, to ill vacancies in
clerkships of class one. These viii be the
first examinations held in that department
under the new civil service rules Of providing
for examinations by districts. It IL under
stood to be the intention OF the treasury 70
make appointments as far as practicable from
districts having lees than their proportion of
clerks in the department, as most of the can
didates will doubtless be from the vicinity Of
the District of Columbia which already has
more than its proportion. Only such vscsnries
as must Immediately be hlled, will be dIled
from examination in Washington. The re-
mainder will be left open till the district ex-
animation about TO be held In New York, Gin
cinnati, st. Louis and Savannah are COM
pleted.
1T is stated that Mr.. z. g. Simmons has
purchased the trotting gliding, Jim Irving,
|. from his owner, Mr.. James Irving, for the
sum of ESQ, 900. This is the largest price
ever paid for a trotting horse.
The internal revenue office is now conducted
at an expense of two million dollars per year
! less than under former laws. The commits
sioner is satisfied with the law SIS it is and
/ therefore viii make no important reCommen-
dation to congress concerning it.
! Tho secretary Of the treasury states that
he was not previously aware Of the fact that
at the time of its failure the first national
bank of Washing on had on deposit govern
nlent money in excess Of the security OF $780,
| 600 in United States bonds, ana otherwise re-
/ auired to he deposited with the United States
| treasury a. security for the safe keeping aud
/ prompt payment of the public moneys de-
/ posted with the bank. Judge Richardson
/
are not unusual that it occasionally happens
that in the course Of business an amount of
yublio money is sometimes temporarily de-
posi- cd with government repositories in excess
of the actual security given by them
The annual figures OF the postofice de-
partment show the receipts to have been, in
round numbers, twenty-three millions, aud the
expenditures about twenty-Iiine millions, in-
oluding S725 900 subsidies {, steamship lines
Last year the receipts we're little less than
twenty-five millions, and the expenditures
! twenty-six and one half milhons- Last year
the increase of expenditures was over nine
per cent. This year it is only seven per cent.
The reesipts and expenditures correspond
very closely with the estimates submit ed by
tho department. for the fiscal yesr, the esJi-
mated expenditures having been twenty-seven
and half millions, and the estimated receipts
/ q little less than tweniy-three millions. The
| actual expenditures were q million and q half
in excess OF the estimate, while the actual re-
ceipts slightly exceeded the estimates. The
estimated deficiency WAS "a, 7OO, coo, but even
with the unexpected expenditures the whole
deficiency is only few hundred thousand
greater, being about i've millions, Reports
from the offices Of the several assistants show
the most encouraging and efficient condition
Of the various branches of the postal service.
The increased expenditures have been caused
chiefly by the extension Of postal car service
and of the free delivery system At present
All through mails are distributed on the prin-
cipaI roaIroad lines. while trains sre under
headway, and few, If any, OF tue important
mails Of the country are allowed to lie over
train for distribution. This increase Of posts
car service has had very marked effect in the
prompt transmission Of mails, and the delays
set forth at length by Mr.. Cresswell in his last
report will almost entirely disappear from Che
tables OF this year. The expense Of carrying
official mails, OF the saving made by the sbOli
ton OF the franking privilege, does not aPPea
IN the figures OF the present annual report
since free ulsttsr was not out on till the elost
Of the fiscal year. The estimate made by Air
Cressweu Of the United ststes postal cards
were one hundred millions for the first year
This rate has been exceeded. For the twC
months after their introduction, ending
with the sscal year, the number issued was
over thirty-one uIIlions- For the hrst quarter
Of the present ftsesl yeAr, ending September
s0th, the number issued vas evsv thirty-thre'
millions, and the total number for these sl-
months, sixty-focr million three hundred thou
sand The free delivery system has beeI
largely increased, and st the same time gTeste
eaaciancy has been insured The pubic Ia,
avazlsd itself of the use OF money orders TO
greater extent taan during any previous ascz
yeaE. For the asosl year ending July S0th
: 1874, the postofSoe department has subnitteS
the following estimates: Expenditures, $50