The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

The secretary of the treasury has in
/ structed the assistant treasurer of New York
to sell 81 ZOO, 900 gold, on each Thursday dur
ing July.
| A Washington dispatch states Col. Il.
G. Whiteley, chief of the secret service, has
not resigned, but has demanded a thorough
investigation, which has been granted.
The attorney-generalh has decided that
the state of Nebraska is not entitled to five
per cent. upon the value of the reservations
for Indian tribes in that state.
Secretary Bnstow has ordered that
advertisements be made Immediately in all
the principal cities for proposals for the pub
lie carriage of merchandise in the custody of
the government.
Admiral Polo DeBarnabe, the Span
Spain. 1t is said the admiral has been elected
ton in the Spanish navy.
The president has appointed Jackson
E. SickIes and Paul s. Herbert to the board of
commissioners to investigate and report per-
/ manent plan for the reclamation for the allu-
vial basin of the Mississippi river biect to
| inuudation.
Hon. Marshall Jewell, the minister at
/ st. Petersburg, has accepted, by cable, the
/ postmaster generalship. Marshall, the first
assistant postmaster-Genera will be appointed
! to serve until the arrival of Jewell.
The customs receipts for June are
| larger than during June, 1873. There is also
] an improvement in the internal revenue re-
ceipts The public debt statement on the 1st
of July will show a slight decrease. The gov
ernment viii pay 322, 600, 600 gold for the
July interest.
Charles I. Conant, of New Hamp-
shire, present chief of the warrant division
of the treasury department, has been appoint
ed by the president, assistant secretary of the
treasury vice Sawyer, resigned. Conant has
been clerk in the warrant division of the
/ treasury for nine years, and chief of the divis-
/ ion for the last four years.
The attorney general has decided that
under the act of juno I6, 1874 no payment
can be made to any railroad company for
transportation of troops or property of the
United States when its railroad was construct
ed in whole or in part by the aid Of grants of
public lands, upon any conditions as to the
use of said roads by the United States. The
| remedy of such company, if it has any, is by
a suit against the government in the court of
claims.
The president having directed that all
correspondence on the part of the centennial
commission or any of its officers. with the gov
ernment may be conducted through the de-
partment of the interior, Secretary DeIano has
called the attention of the secretary of state
to the joint resolution approved June 5, au-
thorizing the extension of cordial invitation
70 fO in Ia
exhibition, and requested him to transmit
copies of the resolution abroad
The secretary of the interior has ap-
pointed as members of the board of Indian
! commissioners to fill the vacancies which re-
Gently occurred therein, r. Butler, Of New
York city; Gen. H. H. Sibley, OF St. Paul,
Mnn., and Clinton B. Fiske, OF st. Louis.
These appointments increase. the number of
members of the commission from four, at
which it was left by the recent resignation of
Brunot and others, to seven. Secretary Della
no will soon fill the remaining three vacancies.
The Washins ton Dispatch says Mr..
| Cushing, United States minister to Spain, has
made peremptory demand upon the Spanish
| government for full indemnity for the Vir-
gnius prisoners, slain by the order of Gov
| Burriel, and for consequential damages The
same authority makes Secretary Fish say that
the American government has made a prompt
demand aud one quite as decided aud per-
emptory that made by the British govern
! ment, for the indemnity of the lives of the
prisoners destroyed and the loss to their
families
The decrease of immigration for the
first six months OF 1874 shows a falling of of
from twenty to about fifty per cent. compared
with the corresponding months in 1873. The
difference Is chiefly seen in the German ele-
| meut. In the sixth month of the present
| year over 81, 600 immigrants arrived and an
unusually iarge proportion so directly west.
Several ships recently arrived have been
almost exclusively filed with young Irish
women, who come for the purpose of hiring
out as housekeepers, and accordingly have
distributed themselves in part through New
York, but still more largely over the eastern
states.
The Pacific mail steamer Alaska,
has arrived at San Francisco, and brings Yo-
kohama dates to June 5. KIDD a member
Of the japanese ministry, head Of the depart
ment OF education, had been murdered by his
countrymen. The Japanese government is
sues a notice to the effect that after the 1st OF
August next the expectation of rice and wheat
beyond the seas viii be prohibited The re-
port Of the tour Of the late Japanese en-
baeey around the world is finished and placed