Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-07-11
MISCELLAN NEOUS.

The secretary OF the treasury has in
structed the assistant treasurer Of Now York
to sell 81, 100000 gold on each Thursday dur
ing July.
A Washington dispatch states Col. II.
c. Whteley, chief Of tho secret service has
not resigned, but has demanded thorough
investigation, which has been granted
The attorney-g general 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 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
ish minister at Washington has sailed for
Spain 1t is said the admiral has been elected
by the Serrano government to resume his posi-
tonin the Spanish navy.
The president has appointed Jackson
+. Sickles and Paul A. Herbert to the board Of
commissioners to investigate and report per-
mancnt plan for the reclamation for the allu-
vial basin of the Mississippi river biect to
uundation.
Hon. Marshall Jewell, the minister Mt
s. Petersburg, has accepted by cable, the
postmaster general-hip. Marshall, the first
assis.an. postmastorgcnoral, 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-
ceps. The public debt statement on the lst
Of July will show slight decrease. The gov
ernment will pay :22 100000 gold for the
July interest
Charles |. Copant, of New Hamp-
slirc, 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
beena clerk in the warrant division Of the
treasury for nine years, and chief OF the diyls-
ion for the last four years
The attorney general has decided that
pnder the act Of June l6, 1874, no payment
can be made to any railroad company for
transportation of troops or property OF the
TInited States when its railroad was construct
cd 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, ID 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
crnmcnt NAV 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 D. au-
thorizing the extension Of cordial invitation
IN foreign governments to participate in the
exhibition. and requested him to transmit
comics of the resolution abroad.
The secretary of the interior has ap'
ronted AZ members of the board of Indian
commissioners to fll the vacancies which re-
oortv occurred therein, r. Butler, OF New
York CITY; Gen. H. H. Sibley, OF St. Paul
Mimi, and Clinton b. Flske, OF st. Louis.
These appointments increase the number oi
members of the commission from four, az
which il WAS left by the recent resignation oi
prrnot and others, to seven. Secretary Dela
no will soon fill the remaining three vacancies
Tho Washins ton Dispatch says; Mr.
Cushing, United States minister to spaln mas
made a peremptory demand upon the Spanish
government for full indemnity for tho VIZ
oirirs nrisopers, slain by the order OF GOV
Rrrriel and for consequential damages Ihe
same authority makes Secretary Fish say tha'
tbo American government has made promp'
demand. and one quite as decided and per
emptory as that made by the British govern
ment for the indemnity Of the lives OF th'
prisoners destroyed and the loss to thel
families.
The decrease of immigration for the
srst ak months OF 1874 shows failing OF o.
from twenty to about fifty per cent compared
with the corresponding months in 1878. I'M
difference is chiefly seen in the German ele
mnnt In the sixth month of the presen
wear over $4,000 immigrants arrived, and al
unusually large proportion go directly wes'
several ships recently arrived have beer
almost exclusively filed with young lrSl
women. who come for the purpose OF hirinl
ont as housekoepers, and accordingly haV
distributed themselves in part through Ne'
York. but still more largely over the caster
states. ~.
The Pacific mail steamer Alaska
has arrived at San Francisco, and brings 10
Lobama dates to June ). KIDD memoe
~ the Japanese ministry, head OF the depart
ment OF education, had been murdered py nj
oountrymen. The Japanese government ID
sues notice to the effect that after the ls'
August next the expectation of rice and ID, vho'
beyond the seas will be prohibited inc re re
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