The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-24
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
WASHINGTON, June 22.-The Secretary ee
the Navy has made requisition for $500. OO0
on the Secretary Of the Treasury, to pay the
remainder Of the Farragut prize awards. The
original amount was $3.50, 600. The sum first
named will be placed to the credit of the As
sistant Treasurer for the use of the prize
fund
1t viii be distributed among $500 persons.
heretofore attached to thirty-five or forty
vessels Of Farraguts feet which made the
capture from the Confederates The aggre-
naval captures during the late war was about
$38, 600, 600, of which $14,O00.000 were
turned over to the Navy Pension Fund,
SIG, OOO, 900 distributed to the captors, and
the remainder absorbed in expenses, etc.
The Farragut cases are the last to be adj
justed.
The following synopsis of the condition Of
certain crops has been received from j. B.
Dodge, Statistician Of the Department OF
Agriculture:
The condition of winter wheat generally,
is reported as comparatively low. A marked
improvement is noted since the April and
West, especially in Kansas.
The State averages of the condition of
winter wheat in the Alleghenies are as fol-
lows: West Virginia 60, Kentucky so, Ohio
So, Michigan 80, Indiana II, Illinois Ga, Mis-
souri, IS, Kansas 81.
Rye promises better than wheat, yet it may
not mature full crop. 1t is best in Norther1
New England and in the Gulf States. There
b . small increase in the breadth of the ost
crop, caused in part by the abandonment Of
winter wheat areas.
It's condition is generally good almost
full average in the States of largest produc-
ton, and better in the central districts than
on the Atlantic coast or in California
WASHINGTON. June 23.-The Signal Bureau
Telegraph is working to Fort Sill, Indian
Inv irsuiasns has signed the commissioa
Of McGrew to be Sixth Auditor, vice Sheats;
also that OF Miller, to be postmaster at Tus-
caloosa.
Charles Lee has been appointed Surveyor
|of Customs at Augusta, Ga.
The Controller of the Currency has re-
ceived information of decision recently rem
dered by Judge McCandless in an action Of
debt brought against the cashier of the Mon
onQahela National Bank of Brownsville, Pa,
to recover penalty of $500 for the refusal OF
the cashier to permit the deputy collector Of
internal revenue to examine the checks on
file in said bank. The court entered judg-
ment for the defendant, holding that the in
ternal revenue collector had no right, under
section 3l77 of the Revised Statutes, to exer-
else the powers claimed by him.
Secretary Delano has returned.
A new and dangerous counterfeit was dis
covered ct the National Bank Redemption
Agency, of the Ave dollar notes of the First
~ ~In ru
evidently changed from the plate on which
the counterfeit on the Traders National Bank
eff Chicago and the First National Bank Of
Paxton, Illinois, was printed.
A dispatch received at the War Department
to-day from Assistant Adj utant General Whip
pie, of Gen. Sherman's staff, dated st. Louis,
June %, announces that dispatch just re-
ceived there from Col. Dodge, dated Harney's
Peak, June II, reports that gold was found in
paying quantities on French Creek Custar's
report is confirmed in every particular. Col.
Dodge reports that the command is well and
in fine condition. He has written fully upon
the discovery and will forward his reports by
mail.
The following dispatch has been received 1t
the Indian Bureau from Prof Janney, dated
Camp French Greek, near Harveys Peak,
June II, 1876 To Hon. E. ?. Smith, Wash
ington-I have discovered gold in small
qua ntities on the north bend Of Castle Greek,
in terraces or bars of quartz gravel. We az
rived here yesterday. About fifteen miners
have located camp on the creek above here
and have commenced working. Gold IL
found from Castle Creek southwardly to
French Greek, at this point, and the deposits
are almost wholly in Dacotah.
The region has not been freely explored,
but the yield of gold thus far has been quite
small and the reports OF the richness OF the
gravel bars are greatly exaggerated. On
French Creek the deposits of gravel are
very unfavorably situated. The water supply
is small and failing, and the grade too little to
admit of the tailings being carried Oft by the
stream. The prospect at present is not such
as to warrant extended explorations in min
ing. w. T. JANNEY,
E. P. M. G. Expedition.
WASHINGTON. June 23.-Preparatory steps
are being taken to bring about system Of
international exchange between Great Britain
and the United States, through the medium
of the cooperative societies in Great Britain
and the Patrons Of Husbandry in America
The Central Cooperative Board OF the Co
operative societies has been in correspondence
with Secretary Kelly, of the National Grange
for some time past, relative to the project
and at . meeting Of the Executive COMMITTEES
of the National Grange next week the subject
will be formally presented by deputatioR
from the cooperative societies en- route to the
United Sthtes.
The British corporators ask the acceptance
of their plan of union, and state that the OBJ
ject is to reform commercial abuses, get rid
of middle men, restore integrity in dealing
equalize wealth, and represent that much
greater quantity of American products would
be sold in England but for the extravaganza