The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-13
IN GENERAL.

The various contracts for the European
mail service has been go timed that they Will
all expire together on December 31st., and the
postmaster general will endeavor to make al
rangements for the ensuing year in such a
manner as to provide four mails per week for
Europe from New York city on four separate
days
Under recent act of congress creating
the board of immigration commissioners, the
secretary of the treasury has made the follow
ing appointments DR.. John NJ. Woodwork,
]. B. Saunders, J. Fred Meyers, Chas- Coline,
J. H. Piper and Helen NJ Barnard. The last
mentioned is to be assigned the duty of re-
porting upon the treatment of women and
children on board the emigrant ships. DR..
Woodwork viii exercise the general super
vision of the Atlantic seaboard. Another
commissioner will 60 to San Francisco to in
vestigate the condition of the Chinese and
Japanese emigrants, and others viii be sent to
Europe to make inquiry and prepare full
reports.
John Anderson, who gave Panigese Is
land, his completely furnished residence
thereon and $50, 900 to Professor Agassiz to
found school of natural science, suggests, in
order to make the endowment ample, and the
institution national one; that the state leg
islatures contribute $25, 600 each to the fund.
If the states cannot constitutiOnally do this,
the friends of the school hope the wealthy
men of the several states will emulate the
generosity Of Mr.. Anderson, and endOw the
school with sufficient means to make it pre-
eminent among scientific institutions
An important decision has been rendered
in the case of Walter D. Spratt, of Mississippi
to the effect that claimants who purchased
cotton from agents of the confederate govern
ment knowing at the time that the proceeds
would be used in the prosecution of war
against the federal government, acquired no
title to their purchases and therefore have no
right of action against the United States for
the subsequent capture and sale of such cot
ton This decision governs and excludes claims
to the amount of about three million dollars.
An appeal was taken to the supreme court.
The secretary of the treasury calls for the
redemption of sixteen million coupon bonds
and four million registered bonds to be paid
September 9Th. The bonds called in embrace
those dated May 1st, 1862, as follows: Coupon
bonds of fifty dollars number ], 2O1 to G, 200 IN
elusive; one hundred dollars number 4, ,7S3 to
90 900 inclusive; five hundred dollars number
3.OO1 to 10 700 inclusive; one thousand dollars
number G, ,734 to % 600 inclusive total 1G OOO,
600. Registered bonds Of fifty dollars number
.234 to ]. 800 inclusive one hundred dollars
number s, ,8O4 to 6, 500 inclusive; five hundred
dollars number 53G1 TO 5, ZOO inclusive one
thousand dollars number %, 6S1 to 23, 800 in
clusive five thousand dollars number 6, ,0I3 to
$500 inclusive; total 4, 100000 Grand total
20 GOO. .OOO The bonds of the third series, en-
bracing the above numbers, were printed in
black and have the words Third Series " on
the bonds and Third 8" on the bond or each
coupon or both. The bonds of the fourth Sc
ries were printed in black with red numbering
and have the words Fourth Series " or
Fourth on them. United States securities
forwarded for redemption should be address
edto Loan Division, seeretary's Office, and all
registered bonds should DO assigned to the
secretary Of the treasury for redemption.
The law directing the secretary of the
treasury to pay the net proceeds of cotton UNI
lawfully seized after June 80, 1865, was ap-
proved May 1s, 1872, and required that all pc
titions should be filed within six months there
after, on or before Nov. 18th, duly signed and
sworn and placed in the mail before November
18th, did not reach Washington until after that
date. They were, however, cent to the secre-
tary with record of the date when resolved.
In reply to inquiry and argument of the point
involved, whether in two important cases so
fled, the petitions be regarded as fled in time
the secretary has decided that. no petition OF
claim under the act of congress which was not
received in tho treasury department, on or be-
fore the 18th of November, 1878, can be re-
garded as having been filed within six months
after the passage OF ths Act, and that any
such claim received in the department after
November 18th, cannot be considered by the
secretary. The opinion of the best informed
lawyers here, is that the time for filing the pc
titions both in the cotton cases before the sec
retary of the treasury, and for stores and snp-
plies before the southern claim commission
will be extended by the next congress.