The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-02

or 1907 Is luSt issued, as lOll0WS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
september, ], 1874,
By virtue Of the authority given by the
act of Congress, approved July IA, 1870,
entitled AN Act TO Authorize the Refund
ing of the National Debt | hereby give
notice that the principal and accrued inter
est of the bonds herenbelow designated,
known as 5 20 bonds, will be paid at the
Treasury of the United States, in the city
of Washington on and after the lst day OF
December, 1874, and that the interest on
the said bonds will cease on that day, that
is to say, the coupon bonds known as the
third and tonrth series, of February %,
S62, dated May /, 1869, as follows: Cou
pom bonds, third series-$50. numbers a.
sol to 1854, both inclusive of 500, Nos
As, lOl to 81, $685. both inclusive of $500,
Nos. 2S.7Ol to 30,960, both inclusive; OF
81 900, Nos. 70, ,20l to 7S, 132, both inclu-
sive. Fourth series-of $50, Nos. to
,3lO, both inclusive; of 500, Nos. l to
800, both inclusive; of $500, Nos. l to
|, 1856, both inclusive; of 81 200, Nos. | to
4,370, both inclusive. Total, $4,000, 900.
Registered of $50, numbers l,75l to
800, both inclusive; of 500, Nos. 49,
3Ol to $4,000, both inclusive of $500, Nos.
1901 to 1850, both inclusive; of $1,000,
Nos. ! 1860 to 32,950, both inclusive OF
S. 900, Nos $500 to l0,l5O, both inclu-
sive; of $4,000, Nos. l,75l to l2,500,
both inclusive. Total, $3,000,000.
Grand total, $l5 100000.
| OF the amount outstanding, embraced in
numbers as above, $4,000, 900 are cou-
pon bonds and $3,000,00O registered bonds.
| United States securities forwarded for
redemption should be addressed to the
loan Division of the Secretarys Office, .
and all registered bonds should be assigned
to the Secretary Of the Treasury for re-
demption.
(Signed,) B. H. BRIsTow,
Secretary.
Amended to the call is statement OF
the ten previous calls for the redemption
of 500 bonds They commence with sep
tember l, 1871, and aggregate, to August
], 1874, S2Gl 100000 and the present, or
eleventh call, $276,000,000.
The decrease in the public debt during
August is 81 .O26, 100; coin in the Treasu-
|rv. S7I. .OS3, ,92S, including coin certificates,
500, l4l 200; currency balance, $l6,6l9,-
J, 232; special deposit of legal tenders fol
redemption of certificates of deposit, $5S,
100000; legal tenders outstanding, S3S2,
100000.
New YORK, Sept 1.-The Christian
> Union, MIR. Beecher's paper, has an article
on the Brooklyn scandal, in the course OF
which it says Mr.. Tilton, Mr.. Moulton
| and Mrs. Tilton have each, on their Owl
admission, or on ample, incontrovertiblt
! proof, told two wholly different stories o.
the whole matter, Mr.. Beecher, alone, has
Ill a., tba cama thing
The burst of self-reproach in which ht
carlessly set his hand to paper which ht
had neither written nor read, which gross
" perverted his expressions, the tenn
pestuous self,reproach and sorrow which
he has described, and in which it seems h'
committed himself to a mistaken course II
the whole matter, is surely easy to com
Z prehend. MIR, Beechers we'll known, Ole
: and long affection for Tilton, strengthened
as he has graphically told, by a great ser
vice which Tilton had done him; his pro
found desire springing from the sentlmen
: which is deepest in his life, to reclaim ant
save one who had erred the stern reckon
Y ing to which he held himself for error
;, that had aggravated the trouble; that ut
e ter forgiveness which he gave to offense
S against himself; the dread Of disaster. no
r to himself only but to Mr.. and Mrs. Ill
d ton, and to the public morality and decen
:, cy. in the storm of vile scandal whic
y has at last been let loose, the utter wearl
h ness of life, at times, under the burden
o the exalted and heroic ministry to others
never once interrupted by his own trou
, bles: all these things though they may b
J. forgotten or misunderstood in the tumu
.e of the present, will one day shine cut clea
7. and ennobling in the eyes OF the world, a
d a man who made many mistakes, and neI
ID er erred ignobly who held himself, throug
Is all, pure and upright, and the friend
men and the servant of God. In not
to friend Just after the Woodruff attach
Mr.. Beecher wrote: Living or dying,
Fl am the Lords He knows it, and L kno'
it, After that, it matters little what hal
y 10 him, indeed" continues the UnioI
: sit matters little His noble work will
! on. and his Master will care for him an
for it. and. sooner or latter, the world WI
know the truth but each OF US IL col
Germs deeply that we do not wrong ou
u selves by misjudging in this issue betWee
= a true man and lie.
!. President Grant and party arrived hel
: this morning and left Immediately Tor Lot
D Branch.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 1.-Donaldson
7 large balloon with SIX newspaper nl'
aboard passed oyer this city southeast 10
New Jersey at 5:l5 P. NJ. Ihe VIM W
% strong from the northwest
re- WASHINGTON, Sept. Hon. Marshi