The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-14

Cash in the Treasury, coin. ....s s2,s42, goa
Currency ........................ 1907, 45A
Special deposit held for the redemption
Of certificates of deposit, as prescribed
Total in the Treasury. ...........$ 9s,2S5,000
Debt less cash in Treasury ...... 2,162, 65S, 5s1
Increase during the month. ..s 4O6,24s
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
Companies, interest payable in lawful
money. principal outstanding. 80. q, 500, SIC. 90
Interest accrued and not yet paid. 323,ll1.W
Interest paid by United States. ls,509 2sO.9o
Interest repaid by transportation OF
Balance Of interest paid by United
states. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES A'o"o4o.io
THE President is urging upon members Of
Congress the necessity of taking some decisive
action this session upon the Utah problem.
CONGRESS having abolished the ranking
privilege, it now proposes to do away with the
twin evil of mileage bill to that effect having
been prepared. A pension of $50 per month
has been granted by Congress to Mrs. Robert
c. Ward, daughter of the late President Taylor,
who, it appears. is in very destitute circum-
stances. The House Committee OH Claims
have reported bill passing the awards Of
claims allowed by the Commissioners on South
en Claims. The bill embraces 1900 names,
and appropriates about $500, O00.. The House
Foreign Affairs Committee have agreed to rec
ommend the passage of the bill incorporating
the American, China and japan Telegraph Com
pany, with capital Of 10000, OOO. Congress
is being flooded with petitions in opposition to
the proposed repeal of the Bankrupt act. =.
President Grant, Immediately after the close
Of the present session of Congress, will, in
company with members Of the Cabinet, make
an extended Southern tour, visiting New Or
leans (via Richmond), Raleigh. Columbia,
Charleston, Mobile, and other places.
The defeat Of Senator Sherman's Specie
Payment bill in the Senate, the other day, was
altogether sudden and unexpected; but it fully
confirms the general impression that there will
be no financial legislation this session. The
Postmaster General has issued advertisements
for bids for the new penny postal cards. 1t is
the intention of the department to have cards
really for issue by the LIST of May. The Post
master General has already received orders for
new cards in such numbers as to lead him to
believe that 100, 900. 900 of them will be used
the first year.
CONGRESS has removed the political disabili-
Il
The several Executive Departments Of the
Government are making estimates for the
amount Of their postage for the next fiscal
year, when the law sbolishing the ranking
privilege takes effect. The estimate for the
Treasury Department is s265, 900; for the In
terror Department, s22O, 900. The War; State
Navy and Justice Departments il il estimated
will reach altogether 81, 500, 900. The success
Of the new loan is so promising that Secretary
Boutwell, has issued call for ono hundred
millions Of the 500 bonds of 1862, and will
shortly issue a like call for another equal
| amount.
FOREIGN
| IT was the Spanish steamer Murillo. as was
surmised from the first, that ran down the
Northfieet in the English Channel. the other
| day. She was not damaged in the least by the
collision. and has arrived at Cadiz in perfect
condition. Lisbon was her real destination,
but al her officers and crew on landing there
would have been Immediately arrested under
the extradition law between Great Britain and
Portugal, she carried her cargo to a Spanish
port. This may enable her officers to escape
| All IoT MI dCt vi Colu~DloOucu III
humanity equal to the worst Of those that rem
dcred Infamous the Spanish buccaneers Of 800
years ago. The Spanish Government has
officially notified Minister Sickles that no steps
will be taken to abolish slavery in Cuba until
the instruction in that island has been sup
pressed. There are, according to the recent
census returns, 1853, 600 slaves in the island.
The great Vienna Exposition building is
completed. An incipieht revolution in Hayti
has been discovered and suppressed, and five
Of the plotters executed. "A strike among
the engineers and firemen Of the Portuguese
railways has been ended by the interference Of
the Government, and the striking workmen
forced. at the point Of the bayonet, to resume
their places. The British isles have been vis-
tied by storm Of extraordinary violence. In
] London, snow fell to great depth, and travel