The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-16
WASHINGTON.

NATIONAL BANK REDEMPTION AGENCY,
WASHINGTON, August l4.-The Re-
demptiOn Agency has Just completed the
statement Of its transactions for the first
fiscal year Of It's existence. The total
amount redeemed was $3.50, O,322,945. The
number Of notes was 7S42,Sl0, with an
average denomination at seven dollars
and thirty cents, The aggregate expenses
OF the year were about two-ninths OF one
per Centum upon the amount assorted.
The assessment upon each bank varies
from this average according as the aver
age denomination Of lis notes assorted is
greater or less than the average denOmt-
nation OF all the notes assorted. Unless
there should be some Unforeseen increase
OF expenses, the rate per cent OF the ex.
penses for the current fiscal year will be
much less than for the last year, on nc.
count Of the increased efficiency Of the
force and the fact that the requisite fur
niture and appliances have been provided.
PREEDMENs BANK.
The Commissioners appointed 10 liqui.
date the affairs Of the Freedmen's Bank
report that there are now In the United
States Treasury to the credit Of the bank
$466,OO0. This sum Is sufficient to do.
clare dividend Of fifteen per centum.
Congress, however, provided that no diyi-
dcnd less than twenty per cent, should be
declared. The Commissioners are now
preparing checks payable to the sixty.
i've thousand depositors, so that there will
be no delay in payment when the dividend
il declared. This will not be before Decem.
Der lat. DepositOrs outside Of Washing.
ton will be paid by check upon the Sub
Treasurer at New York. Depositors will
be required to send their pass-books TO
Washington. The commissioners have
discovered that the real estate assets in
this city are quito rs WORTHLESS as they
were Represented In Congress 10 be. OF
thirty.five pieces Of real estate here offer
ed for sale, the Commissioners were oblig-
ed to bid In thirty-one, "a
alaska FUR SEAL COMPANY.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has had
an investigation privately made into the
relations Of the Alaska Fur Seal Com
pany with the government. II Is said
that tho report is favorable to the COM
pany.
HARD ON THE POOR INDIAN.
The President has COuntermanded for
the present tho order allowing the wives
Of the Indian prisoners at Fort Marion,
Florida, to he sent them from Fort Sill.
APPOINTMENTS.
The President has signed the commits.
siOns Of Robert I. Van Horn to be Col.
lector OF Internal Revenue for the Sixth
District OF Missouri, and Thomas W.
Reakirt, Postmaster ut Lebanon, Illinois.
DIED.
Lieutenant Commander G. W. Armen.
ire ,liOd on the steamship Spnin, en- route
from Europe.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
WAsHINoToN, August l5.-The follow
ing Is an official statement from the
Treasury Department Of the Government
receipts and expenditures, by warrant,
for the year ending June 80, 1876: Net
receipts, Sl57, ,lO7, ,722; Internal Revenue,
$ll,O0O,774; sales Of public lands, 81 ,4l3,.
$40; miscellaneous sources, $l0,4ll 1876
total, $2SS,OOO,O5l. Net expenditures,
civil and miscellaneous, $7l, ,07O,702; War
Department, SAL, ,l20,645; Navy Depart.
ment, 81, ,407, ,026j Indians and pensions,
$37, ,S40,873; interest on public debt,
81, ,0S0,0 ,025i total ordinary expenditures
S27I. .023,3 ,392,