The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-07-28
WASHINGTON
Settled.

WASHINGTON, July 27.-SecrAtary Bristow
and Treasurer Spinner have arranged that all
appointments to office in Treasurer Spinner's
bureau shall be made only after an examination
Treasurer objects shall not BE- appointed 1t
has also been agreed that all persons nominated
by Gen. Spinner for appointment in his office
shall be allowed to appear for examination.
Special Treasury Agents.
The circular just issued by the Secretary OF
the Treasury provides that tho Commissioner of
Customs shall superintend all special agents of
the Treasury appointed under the act of Con-
Sress, May II, 1870. The existing division of
the United States into districts, placed under
the superintendence of certain special agents,
will be discontinued from and after LIST of Aug.
1874 and special agents will thereafter act
under the immediate direction and report to the
Commissioner of Customs, who will designate
their respective stations. A sufficient Der
of special agents will be assigned to duty in-
speeding the books, papers and accounts of the
collectors and other officers of customs, and re-
port errors and irregularities, any lack Of TT
ness or efficiency promptly to the department..
Treasury Baiances.
The following are the Treasury balances to-
day:-Curreney, $l3, 4O3,71S; special deposit of
legal tenders for redemption of certificates of
Deposit $61, 10000; coin, S71, 1881 729 including
coin certificates $33, 581 200; outstanding legal
tenders, $685., 100000.
Various Matters.
The President has ratified the declaration re-
speeding trade marks concluded with Russia on
the 10th and 18th of March, 1874.
Six inbred and fifty-nine thousand seven
hundred and fifty dollars in national bank notes
were received at the Treasury Department to-
day for redemption, making the total amount
received since the organization of the bureau
| $S,5OO892.
The Indian office has information of the ar
rest of a notorious waiskey trader and horse
| thief named Martin alias Hurricane Bill, in
Kansas, and his having been turned over to the
| U. s. Marshal at Leavenworth. Martin has
| been one of the principal operators in stirring
| up the present Indian troubles by killing buffa-
Ices and stealing horses from Indian reserva-
| tons
Results Of the New Banking Law.
NEW YORK, July 27.-The Treasurer at
Washington to-day received $6,570,0O0 in
national bank notes for redemption. A COM
| parison of the condition in point of legal tend
ers of New York and Boston, June 10th and
| July 18th, show that during the first four weeks
| of the working of the new law these banks lost
but 1855, 900 of legal tenders. The amount of
deposits in the Treasury against national bank
circulation aggregated on the 23d inst SIG, 153,
269, covering the deposit required on $685., $685.,
| $50 national bank circulation, showing that
nearly the entire deposit required under the
new law against the circulation is already
made The amount of So, 3SO,050 of legal tend
ers has been paid by the banks into the Treas
| ury for the withdrawal of bonds deposited
| against circulation, and the amount of bonds
| withdrawn by the banks from such use as de-
| posits to secure circulation is 81 1857 300.
The Mississippi Trouble.
Adiutant General Plat of the Department of
| the South, in letter to the War Department.
| refers to the ordering of troops to Vicksburg
| and expresses the opinion that Acting Governor
Davis of Mississippi will not be able to make
| out sufficient case to warrant interference of
| the federal authorities
Treaty with Perm.
| The President has issued his procla nation
| ratifying the treaty with Peru, which was con-
cluded and signed at Lima by the Plenipoten-
taries of the two governments, the 18th of Sep
tember 1870; also treaty of friendship, COM
MERGE aud navigation with the same govern
ment, concluded and signed at Lima on the 9th
| of September 1870.
Rumored Cabinet Changes Denied.
A Washington dispatch says that Secretary
Bristow has no knowledge of any contemplated
| Cabinet changes, and his language was misun-
| desstood What ho did say was, that as law
yer he would of course prefer position at the
head of the Department of Justice to any
other, but as the matter now stands he does not
wish to make any change.