Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-16

Total in the Treasury. los, Cos, $40
Debt less cash in Treasury. 2,l62,252,330
Increase during the month ......$ 1,6s4,3o7
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
Companies, interest payable in lawful
money, principal outstanding. 6~4,623,512
Interest accrued and not yet paid..... 1~,93S,705
Interest paid by United States......-- ~16,57o,575
mails, etc. 4,oos,oO2
1Z,oo4,ofS
There was an increase of 81, 6S4, 3O7 in the
public debt last month. In explanation, it is
stated that, when the Treasury accounts are
completed by the returns from distant banks
and Custom Houses, this apparent addition to
our indebtedness viii be transformed into q
decrease of some millions.
IT is now generally believed at the capital
that Hon. William M. Evarts will assume the
portfolio of the State Department on the 4th
of March. The President has intimated to
Secretary Belknap that his presence in the
Cabinet vi be entirely acceptable after the
4th of March. Gen. Cowan will ask for q
full investigation of the alleged Teton Sioux
cided that families, firms, or companies cam
| not combine to rent postofice boxes concertly,
but that the box rent must be collected
such facilities ....The internal revenue re-
ceipts for the last quarter of 1872 were
S26, $50, OBS.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says: THE Presi-
dent has directed the Secretary of State to
prepare Immediately an executive order in eff
feet prohibiting persons holding United States
commissions from occupying Office under State
authority" It is stated that Secretary Bout
we'll adheres to his former opinion that Con-
gress last year made too large a reduction in
taxation, and that he expects further increases
of the public debt hereafter. The President
authorizes a contradiction of the statement
relative to the proposed retirement of Secreta-
~ Fish and the appointment of Mr.. Evarts as
his successor :. &. President Grant has pardoned
two more Ku-Klux out of the Albany Peniten-
tiary....A Washington correspondent says
well-informed member of both houses of Con-
gress express the opinion that there is no hope
for the passage of the Postal Telegraph bill
during this session.
Hon. CHARLES SUMMERS health continues to
decline, and his friends are becoming appre-
hensive. He is not able to take his seat in the
Senate, nor to take part in public affairs. His
chief. trouble, as in the case of Mr. Greeley,
appears to be sleeplessness- The President
has expressed his intention of not calling. an
extra session of the Senate for executive bust
ness after the 4th of March, unless something
of Importance requiring it should transpire be-
fore that time.
TIE House Commerce Committee are busily
engaged in perfecting Shellabarger's bill for
the revival of American commerce. The
House Committee on Public Lands have agreed
to Ketchum's bill prohibiting the sale of pub
lie lands within the limits of any railroad grant
at less than $3.50 per acre....A bill has been
introduced into the House, providing for the
issue of $25,000 900 of National Bank notes in
addition to the amount authorized heretofore.
These notes are to be distributed to banks in
States and Territories which failed to receive
their due proportion of currency under previous
apportionments. The Finance COMMITTEES of
the. Senate has been instructed to report
whether Secretary Boutwell, has the right to
issue legal-tender notes in place of the forty
five millions of bank notes cancelled by the
act of 1866.
Foreign.
RUSSIA, in order to allay British uneasiness
as to the possible reach of her Asiatic move
ments, and to gain for them a clear field, offers
to lay her plans before the English Govern
ment, and even consents that English officers
be allowed to accompany her expeditions. . E.
A citizen of the United States has been SEN
fenced to six months imprisonment in Hun
Francis Joseph of Austria An Englishman,
who was travelling with him and resisted ar
rest, has been committed for three months....
Cuban news reports several fights, in all of
which the insurgents have been whipped; but
it is to be remembered that these accounts
may be. colored by the censorship under which
they pass. The insurgents are certainly busy,
and their activity has compelled the with
drawal of all regular troops from Havana for
service in the field. In order to infuse a still
greater vigor into the conduct of their affairs,
the revolutionists propose to make Agramonte
President at the next election, instead of Ces-
pedes, their present chief.
RANDOLPH STEWART, ninth Earl of Galloway,
died in London recently, aged "a. TIL coast
of England has been visited by another violent
tempest. Kaiser William has conferred the
order of the Black Eagle upon Bismarck....I 1t
is stated that an understanding has been ar
rived at between England and Russia with re-
gard to the war against Khiva, the Gear assur-
ing the English Government that he has no
hostile designs on Afghanistan.
JOHN F. PAwsoN & Co., of London, dealers
in Manchester goods, have failed for $15, 00O,-
900. 1t is feared other failures will follow
THE British Government declines to aid the
Royal Geographical Society in sending out an
Arctic expedition -. Greece has consented to
submit the question of the Laurium mines to
the population to be 36,102, 921, a decrease of
$3.50, 935 since 1856. The commercial treaty
between France and Great Britain has been
finally concluded. The irrepressible Carlists
The city Of Bogata, in South America, has re-
Gently suffered a disastrous inundation, caused
by the overflow of two small rivers.
PRESIDENT MORALES, of Bolivia, was host
dead by his nephew, on the 9Th inst, on &C
count, apparently, of political differences. A
successor was at once elected by the Bolivian
Congress. . Louis Napoleon's condition is i'm
proving = Several 1nternationalists, with Or
SIM bombs in their possession, have been ar
rested at Paris. TIL French Assembly has or
dered the prosecution of a Deputy for acting as
second in a duel.
WHILE Sir Charles Dixie was addressing a
meeting in Derby, England, a few nights ago,
a mob attempted to dispense the meeting. The
adherents of Dixie resisted, and a severe strug-
gle ensued, in which several persons were in
iured, and MANY windows broken. the fighting