The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-07-17
The Great Eastern has laid the new cable
from Ireland to Newfoundland
IN GENERAL.

| Preparations to print new national bank
currency authorized by congress, have already
been commenced an appropriation OF $780,
| 900 to pay therefor having become available.
| Work upon plates will be commenced next
week, and five, ten and twenty dollar notes
will be first issued. 1t will probably occupy
| three months to complete the plates and print
and number the notes. sufficient quantity
of those denominations will be placed in cir
| culaton before commencing upon others,
Two and fifty dollar notes will be next printed,
but as to the exact amount Of these denomi-
nations to be issued, no determination has
been reached, that matter being left with the
banks to arrange with comptrolers.
The Mexican border commission has
lodged ts final report with the state depart
ment Four hundred cases have been exam
iped, aggregating in amount only $ll, ,OOO,-
600, and not so, OOO 900, as has been repreBen-
ted.
The secretary of the interior has made
the following important ruling: When II
homestead il Cancelled, and homestead claim
ant il found on the land at the date of such
cancellation, together with others, who all de-
sign taking tho land under pre-emption laws
the homesteader being legally upon the land,
his settlement rights rests instantly on such
cancellation, while the claimants, having gone
on the land while it was covered by said
homestead, were trespassers, and the home-
stead claimant is the preferred party under
the pre-emption laws.
The commissioner of the public land Of
flee has decided that, while the provisions of
the first section of the timber culture act Of
March 3, 1873, do not in terms limit n quail
fed person in the number of entries he may
make hereunder, yet the policy of the gov
ernment, as expressed in tho public land laws
generally, il 80 opposed to a speculative mo-
nopoly of the public domain that, under the
authority vested in him by the said section Of
the said act, he has ruled that an individual
shall be allowed to make but one entry.
Cen o. O. Howard had the handling Of
some 800, 600, GOO Of the Freedmen's Bureau
and AZ security for honest dealing, he was
required by law to file a bond for $50, 900, His
associate ubcommissioncrs were held in
bonds of :20, 900 each. The unpleasant fact
il reported from Washington that mono Of
these bonds can be found on record They are
not III the first comptroller's Office, where they
should be they have been looked for in the
war department, where they ought not to be,
and are not there. The question IL did Gen
Howard ignore the law, and neglect to file the
bonds, or were they filed, and then quietly
stolen back? The probabilities are that,
whatever may be done by the department of
Justice, the secretary of war will order a court
Of inquiry, or q court-martial in lioward's
case.
1t is ascertained that for the present tis-
cal year, the salaries of senators. representa-
tives and delegates would amount to 43 02O, 900
against u 400, 900 during the past year; and
the treasury will have disbursed S2,O2S, $50 III
salaries to congressman before ever the ses-
sion begins, next December The new pay,
1925 per month, il sent to members every
month, and none of it has been returned as
val