The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-02-21

/ transportation the following amounts:
During Tiscal year ending June 80, 1867 - S1I7 40I
| During fiscal year ending June 30, 1868 . $780, 2S6
During fiscal year ending June 30, 1863 37S, ,535
During fiscal year ending June 30, 1870 4S7, ,28S
During fiscal year ending June 30, ISL. 7O1, PAS
/ During fiscal year ending June 30, 13T2. 4S1 $3.50
During fiscal year ending June 80, 1s73.. 121, ,S5S
Making a total of.............-.....s s., ,851, ,O4O
| OF which one-hah was paid in cash, and one
| half in credits account of railroad bond
indebtedness to the Government. The Quar-
| termaster-G General estimates that the cost of
moving the same troops and supplies by stage
and wagon would have been 50. $50, 1876, show
| ing estimated saving to the Government
| by railroad transportation to Sc, 5O7, ,283 or
about 66 per cent.
! Representative Monroe, with the consent
of the Committee on Banking and Currency,
/ will endeavOr to report under the two-thirds
rule mis- bill providing for S25, 900, 900 addi-
tioRal currency to relieve the stringency in the
| West. 1t is found impracticable to carry out
the law requiring a distribution of the curren-
| cy, passed about two years ago, for the reason
! that it would take from the East all the sur
rency that prevents that section from being as
| destitute as the West.
! Commissioner Leggett, of the Patent Of
/ fice reports the receipts of his bureau dur
ing the calendar year 1872 at S699, ,725; expen-
ditures S665, ,595, and balance now in the
Treasury to the credit of the Office, 1874, Ill.
| Eighteen thousand two hundred and fOrty-six
| applications have been filed, and thirteen
| thousand five hundred and ninety patents
issued during the past year, the number of
applications being fewer and of patents larger
than the previous year, as the commissioner
says, in consequence of a more thorough
| diffusion of Patent Office intelligence, and
the regulation which has made the applica-
tions, though less in number, much better in
quality. The proportion of patents to the
population ranges from one in every 829 per
sons in Connecticut to one in As, 927 in New
Mexico. The commissioner speaks favorably
of the new official publication of his office. the
Weekly Gazette, which is in steadily increasing
demand, and in the highest terms of the prac-
teal operation of civil service reform.
In answer to innumerable inquiries from
business circles as to the exact operation of
that portion of the act of June 6, 1872 which
repealed all taxes imposed by stamps except
on bank checks, drafts or orders, the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue responds that
no stamp tax is now required upon checks,
drafts, or orders, except such shall be
drawn at sight or trust company.
1t is believed nearly all the Ku-Klux pris-
oners will be pardoned within very short
time, and particularly those of this more ig-
norant class. The Government will, how
however, prosecute vigorously all new in
stances of Ku-Klux prosecutions, and it is GER
/ tain that should additional cases arise, the
/ Executive and Department of Justice would
/ regard with disfavor ali appeals for mercy
! or lenency.
/ The President has voted the bill for the
relief of those suffering from the destruction
| of the Salt Works, near Manchester, KY. pur-
suant to the order of Gen. Buell.. The Presi-
dent says the destruction of the Salt Works
was a military necessity and he cannot consent
| to the doctrine that the United States is
liable for all claims for property destroyed by
the Union armies during the war
"A Washington special says the Spanish
| Minister Polo says that it does not seem to
/ him that Spain will retrograde to despotism.
The change in government will not affect the
status of Cuba He considers Amadeus hon
est and liberal. At the State Departments, it
! is doubted if success viii follow, in case
/ Rivers is to be the first President, although
! his qualifications are conceded.
! boutwell, favors the adoption of the naval
/ code of signals for the merchant marine.
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the 1st of January next the postage on daily
papers shall be collected at the Office where
! the paper is mailed, has passed the House,
and seems in fair way to get through the
Senate It is thought that it is calculated
very much to embarrass and diminish the cir
culatiOn of the press and also reduce profits.
/ Much surprise is expressed that the news
papers of the country should have taken the
matter so quietly.
The House Committee on Commerce has
concluded the river and harbor bill Among
other things, they agreed to recommend an ap-
preparation of S325,00O for the improvement
of East River. including Hell Gate, New York:
$50, 600 for Portland Harbor, and S75. 600 for
| Buffalo Harbor.
! Among the bills reported from the Com
mittee on Claims, and passed by the House is
bill appropriating various amounts awarded
1 by the Southern Claims Commissioners last
year, in payment for quartermaster and COM
missary stores furnished by loyalists in the
South during the war.
Preparations for the forthcoming inaugu-
ration ceremonies are being conducted on the
most liberal and extensive scale. Indications
are that it will be the grandest display ever
/ witnessed in Washington.
The majority of the members of Congress
are opposed to an extra session. nor will the
President convene an extra session unless
some extraordinary and now unforeseen neces-
sity renders it necessary.
The report of the Senate committee on
| the Caldwell case, is very voiuminous. The
committee say there is no doubt that money
was paid for votes in the Legislature. It was
discussed in the committee, whether the meas
ure of CaldweIl's guilt demanded expulsion,
or that his election be declared invalid The
majority of the committed favored the latter
view, and a resolution reported accordingly,
for action by the Senate. The committee
think Caldwell was as much sinned against as
siuning; that he was a novice in politics, and
IN the hands Of men who encouraged the
practice Of carrying elections by money.
The Internal Revenue Bureau is prepar-
1 ing for the issue, in a few days, Of circular
to sn Assessors and Assistant Assessors, di-
reeting them to close ont their Offices, and
turn over their official effects May 20, to the
Collectors, as provided for by the conEOlda-
dion bill which passed early in the session.
Assessments for April are to be made ont a.
usual. and the transfer Of the office to the
Collector must not be delayed longer than the
10th OF the subsequent month. The total re
/ ceipts of revenue for the current fiscal year
are not quite mp TO the climates.