The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

Carlotta F. Shatwe.i or Mrs. Gen.
Roddy, as she claims to be, has been discharg-
ed from the Tombs on her parole.
Capt. David White, closely connected
with steamboat Interests on the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers, died at KeokuE, Iowa, re-
Gently
Baron Sehwarz SerI,of;i, new envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, OF
Austrla, to the Uni. ed States, has arrived.
The baron was director-generAl Of the late
Vienna internal exposition.
The secretary of the treasury has di-
rected the assistsnt treasurer at New York to
sell gold the present month as follows: One
million FIVE hundred thousand dollars on the
first and third Thursdays and one million dol
lars on the second and fourth Thursdays each,
making in all five million dolarn
The public debt statement shows a
reduction during June OF 81, ,2s2, 1885, coin in
treasury S71, 113, ,21O; currency S16 919, ,252 ;
coin certificates S3S, 469, 600, special deposits
of legal tender for redemption Of certificates
of deposits s55, e55. 600. Total expenditures
of government for fiscal year, ending June
80, 1874, were S2s7, ,133, s73.
The payments made from the treasu-
~ department during July We're IS fellows
Civil and miscellaneous, g, ,6656 672; war, ss. -
173, ,o96, navy, S2,72s, ,27O; ; interior, pensions
and Indians, =, 94s.49O. Total, SIG, SIC 875.
The above is exclusive of payments on ac-
count Of principal and interest OF tho public
debt
Negotiations for the per cent. fund
ed loan were concluded by the secretary of the
treasury last week, with August Belmont &
Co., on behalf of \. NJ. Rothschild & Sons, of
London, and J. and W SaHgman & Co., on
behalf OF themselves and associates. These
parties made an absolute subscription Of S45,
600, 900, coupled with the option of taking the
remainder Of the loan at any tine within six
months. The loan is token at por, to be paid
for in coin or 500 bonds, the parties to re-
ceive one-quarter of one per cent. commission,
and to defray all the expenses of the transac-
ton, including delivery of the bonds. No
doubt exists at the treasury department of
the ability of these bankers to place the en-
tire loan.
The treasury department has issued
the following: By virtue Of authority given
by act of congress, approved July Il. 1870,
entitled an act to authorize the refunding OF
tho national debt, hereby give notice that
the principal anu Hccrueu interest OF the DOlQz
hereinbelow designated, as follows: Bonds
known as $40 bonds will be paid at the treas
ury of the UniSd States in the city of Wash
ington, on and after the 1st of November,
1874, and that interest on said bonds will cease
on that date; that is to cay, coupon bonds
known as the third series, act of Feb. 25. 1862,
dated May /, 1862; coupon bonds, $50, Nos.
Il, ,2O1 TO II, 500 both inclusive 500. Nos.
| SO. 2O1 to 45,100, both inclusive; $500, Nos.
19, 401 to %, 700, both inclusive 81, ,O0O, Nos.
47.30l to 70, 200, both inclusive total, p 900,
900. Registered bonds, $50, Nos. 1.461 to 1,
$50, both inclusive; S1,OO Nos. IL, 7O1 to 49,
3OO both inclusive $500, Nos; .4O1 to 200.
both inclusive; 81, 600, Nos. 26, 167 to 81, ,6O9,
both inclusive; $4,000, Nos. s,3O4 to $500,
both inclusive 10000, Nos. 1O,51s to 11,75O,
both inclusive; total, So, 600, COO grand total,
s25, 600, 900. The interest due on Nov. 1 on
the registered bonds embraced in the call viii
be paid with the principal of the bonds.