The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-07-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The secretary of the treasury has in
structed the assistant treasurer of New York
to sell 81 900, 900 gold, on each Thursday dur
ing July.
A Washington dispatch states Col. 81.
c. Whiteley, chief of the secret service, has
not resigned, but has demanded thorough
investigation, which has been granted.
The Encouragement 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 Bristow has ordered & pat
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&pan-
ish minister at Washington has saifea for
Spain. 1t is said the admiral has been elected
by the serano government to resume his posi-
ton in the Spanish navy.
The president has appointed Jackson
E. Sickles and Paul A. 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
inundation.
Hon. Marshall Jewell, the minister at
St Petersburg. has accepted. by cable. the
postmaster generalship. Marshall, the first
assistant postmaster-general viii 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 slight decrease. The gov
ernment Will pay s22, 10000 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. Consnt has /
been clerk in the warrant division of the 4
treasury for nine years, and chief Of the divis- I
ion for the last four years.
The attorney general has decided that /
EEader tia act OF June~t6, ISI4s no-Rayment
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 any of its officers with the gov
ernment may be conducted through the de-
partment of the interior, Secretary Delano has /
called the attention Of the secretary Of state /
to the joint resolution approved June 5, au-
thorizing the extension of a cordial invitation /
to foreign governments to participate in the /
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 I
York city; Gen. II. H. Sibley, OF st. Paul, |
Num- 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 Washing ton Dispatch says4 Mr.. |
Cushing, United States minister to Sp9n, has /
made peremptory demand upon the Spanish /
government for full indemnity for the Yir- /
ginius prisoners, slain by the order Of Gov. |
Burriel, and for consequential damages. She |
same authority makes Secretary Fish saY 4hst |
the American government has made pi lmpt |
demand and quite decided aud per-
emptory as 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 falling of OF /
fro TO oh rod
with the corresponding months in 1873. The |
difference is chiefly seen in the German ele
ment. In the sixth month of the present
year over $4,000 immigrants arrived, and an
unusually large proportion go 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 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
beyond the will be prohibited The re-
port of the tour of the late Japanese en-
bassy around the world is finished and placed
in the hands OF the censors. It will be pub
lished in Japanese. The Sagasake Express
says it is the evident intention of the Japa-
nese government to annex so much of the
Formasan territory is not under the cnntrol
Of China The Alaska brought 10 900 Cd ese.
hereafter to be separately arranged byeach
country.
The designation of commissioners
made by the freedman's savings bank and
trust company has been approved by Xhe sec
retary of the treasury. They are Po Raster-
General Cresswell, DR.. c. B. Parvis and L. H.
Leopold. 1t is reported that some Of the de-
positors in the freedman's bank are selling
their cash books for less than their value.
either from necessity or in ignorance of the
fact that Bank Examiner Meigs, after thor
ough examination OF its affairs placed the as
sets, deducting bad and doubtful debts. at
cents on the dollar. The officers
of the company say that with proper care on
the part of the management, the books will be
worth more than that sum, and that large
dividend will be made at as early day as
practicable
The National Crop Reporter pub
fishes crop information OF which the follow
ing is brief abstract Returns ffom over two
hundred and fifty counties in the nine princi-
pal cotton states, indicate, as compared with
last year, decreased area, amounting to ff-
Teen and six Nor cont rrI,o