Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-03
Increased Pay for Heads of De-
partm snts Commenced
The Harper's Ferry
Property in Suit.

> piclon.
Secretary Belknap has approved Il
location of a bridge across the Missi
sippi river at Lacrosse, Wisconsin. /,
has been determined by the government
i and the engineer of the Southern Minn,
t, sofa railroad viii accordingly erect
n bridge at that point.
The secretary to-day addressed a lette
TO Alexander Mitchell, president of tn
: Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad con
b pany, declining an appointment of th
: new board Of examiners on the questio
OF tue location, as requested by the rail
roa1 company.
Z The treasury disbursements for June
exclusive of the interest and principg
OF the public debt, amounted to thirtee
millions seven hundred and ninety thou
SAND dollars. appropriations by con
gress now being available, the disburse
2 ments Tor July will be greater.
: The encouragement, in the prepara
= ton of his opinion as to the responsibiI
lty Of General Howard, commissioner q
the freedman's bureau, for acts of hi
suOordinates, called upon the frs
, comptroller Of the treasury for a eopv q
: the bond of fifty thousand dollars which
the law of 1865 directed should he giveT
by the commissioner for faithful per
= formauce of his duties. said bond 10 h,
, approved by the encouragement anC
/. filed in the office Of the first comptroIIel
10 be by him preserved for the benefit OF
any injured party upon any breach o.
the conditions thereof. The comptroII.
er, upon search, discovered no such bond
had ever been filed in his office. Gen.
eraI Howard, it will be remembered. ex-
planned this by stating that Secretary
stanton told him it would not be neces-
saFy to file bond, be being detailed as
an officer of the army for the duty of
/ commissioner.
The Lew law passed at the last session
OF congress increasing the pay of certain
heads Of bureaus, went into effect YES
terday.
Preparations are being made to print
the new national bank currency. author-
lied by congress, and an offer of six
hundred thousand dollars to pay there
for having become available Yesterday.
work on the plates will be commenced
next week. Five, ten and twentv-dOlIar
notes will be the first denominations is
sued. It will probably occupy three
months 10 complete the plates and print
and number the notes of those denon1i-
nations 70 be put in circulation. Ones.
twOs and fifties will be the next printed
but as TO the exact amount of each de-
nomination 10 be issued no determiDa-
ton has yet been reached, that matter
being left for the banks to arrange with
the comptroller. They can have notes
issued to them in any denomination.
provided, Of course, the aggregate
shall not exceed the amount fixed by
law.
General E. .. Smith, supervising in
spectOr-general CT steamboats,, leaves
here Friday for tour in the northern.
eastern and western States, to visit ali
local boards of inspectors and institute
a series ofexperiments in boilers. boiler
iron, etc. 1t is his Intention TO enforce
the requirements Of the law, and have
Ouly such persons licensed. as are skilled |
an the management of steam vessels |
and of temperate habits. He will ar
rive at Pittsburg about the fifteenth
instant, where he will examine into
steamboat service on the western rivers
and conduct experiments in the various |
grades'of bOiler-iron.
About one hundred and twenty thou- |
sand dollars will be required to pav the |
claims for the additional twenty Der
cent compensation allowed to certain |
ciVn employees of the government in the
city Of Washington.
BY recent decision Of the court of
claims, affirmed by the supreme court.
the commission appointed to inquire into
the necessity Of erecting new life-saving
stations are now making an inspection
Of the northern coast of the United
States.
The United States has filed bill in
in the United States circuit
court for West Virginia, to inforce the
7ender's lien in Harper's Ferry property,
iold IN 1868. As soon as the case is de-
lded the United States viii bring an
Jectment suit against the Baltimore
ind ONO railroad company, which cor
'oration has been running its trains
" government property. 1t is alleged.
Vi-HOut authority, that when the two
ults shall De determined the property
nd franchises will again be put up at
iublic auction. /,
The President recognized Otto NJ.
Adac as consul of Austro- Hungary at
incinnati. ,
The following is the official statement +
I the condition of the postal-card con- !
ract to June Both: Requisitions on I
ontTactor to date, 80. 645, 600 cards; or :
ers suspended at department, 8, Asa 600; r
1taI number ordered by postmasters to +
ate, 43, q, coo; number issued to June q
9TH, inclusive, %, $4,000.
An extension Of postal service is or I
cred on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids I
nd Minnesota railroad, between Gem .
r Point and Independence, Iowa. a
The Injunction granted by Associate n
ustice Hunt, of the United States su-
RENE court, against the Union Pacific Il
abroad, is printed to-day. 1t restrains .,
ne onlcers Of the company from max h
ig any use OF It's resources or receipts r,
credits which shall disable them from
aging the interest as it shall mature r
pom All classes OF its securities, and also ii
sstrains them from the payment of the II
nnclpal or interest on any Securities
istrl6uted 10, through or by the credit q,
lobilier Of America. IN.
A. r. Perry, one of the counsel for a
ie government in the credit mobilier A
III, arrived here this morning on his n
ay 10 Cincinnati. he had long con
renee with Acknowledgement VIII =,
ans IN relation to the suit, which he ii
ports as proceeding very favorablv. -
kilograms have been received af The -
-torney- generals Office, assuming that v
le interest on the first-mortgage bonds
the Union Pacific railroad company. g.
hich are held in Europe, could not Be a
and on the Erst of July on account of a r.
nt against the company; but if il is
ot paid 1t will be the fault of the COM q,
any, and not on account of any inter- p
renee by the government. II may be- Ii
'me necessary, if there is willful neg n
ct or refcsal by the company TO oay .,
rs interest," TO take steps to have a re-
liver appointed to take charge of the IL
ad. -
The secTetary-of-war, in his intention
securing for the department pictures re
previous secretarys-of-w has al h
ady caused to be placed conspieuouslv "
the secretary's Office and ante-room Fl
e portraits Of Ex-Secretarvs Knox q,
exter Dearborn, Eustice, Pickering a,
,ott, Calhoun, Poinsett, Holt, Came v
n, Stanton aud Rawlins. Others are II
wv being painted for the DEPARTMENT m
le secretary is desirOus to procure r,
iginal portraits, il possible, from which
pieslwiH be made, OF Secretary Nc ~
enry, Of WashingtOn's administration.
riswOld, Of Adams's; w. II. Crawford. nj
Madison'si George, Graham, of Mon v,
s's; John Bell, OF Harrison's; and a. fo
7. Crawford, Of Taylor's. hi
Z. sl. Pratt Of Montpelier, Vermont, Ii