The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-03

| 1t is stated that the appropriation for the pay
OF the army for the current fiscal year is made
quate, and in Consequence officers and soldiers
will receive only fifteen days pay at the end
of June instead of for full month. The de-
fciency will have to be made up by the next
Congress.
Instructions have been sent by Attorney
General Pierrepont to the various District
Attorneys directing them to commence prose-
cutions against all the members of the whisky
ring. The government is experiencing some
difficulty in hiring additional counsel, owing to
the fact that the counsel already designated
have shown an unwillingness to accept the COM
/ pensation fixed by the government.
summary statement of the receipts from
the various sources of internal revenue for the
first eight months of the fiscal year ending June
&c. 1875, exhibits an increase over the receipts
for the same period of the previous year of over
$40, 900, 900. The tax on liquors of all kinds
yielded nearly $4,000, 600 that OH tobacco
| 500, 0O0,O0O The tax upon the circulation
and business of the banks gave about
So, 00O 600, and all other sources less than S.
100000.
Special Agent Hale who was deputed by the
Treasury Department to make an examination
of the workings of the system of customs
revenue collection at interior ports of entry and
delivery, has submitted his report and is of the
opinion that some of the one-horse Custom
Houses of the West can be abolished.
| Attorney General Pierrepont has issued a
circular saying that he finds the appropriation
for the Office nearly exhausted, and command
ing general economy and retrenchment.
! general order issued from the War De-
partment announces that the appropriation
made by the last Congress for the pay, etc., of
the army for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1875, is $780, 900 short of the sum estimated
for the War Department. and present indica-
tons are that the appropriation will prove def
fcient.
A scheme is on foot at New York for the re-
organization of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company, with view to the completion of the
line from it's present terminus at Bismarck, Da-
kota, to Puget Sound
This is the season of religious anniversaries.
Judging by the number recently in session in
all parts of the country one would think the
Americans very religious people. Neverthe-
less the criminal record does not seem to dimin-
ish very perceptibly. More missionary work at
home is evidently greatly needed.
Decoration Day was generally observed
throughout the Northwest on the 29th ult.,
and the fower-strewers honored alike the last
resting places of the fallen heroes who wore
the blue and the gray. Eloquent orators were
on hand in profusion, and the bird of freedom
fiuttered, and the English language suffered.
In the shyster' libel suit of Bush VS.. the
proprietor of the Chicago Times the jury
brought in verdict for the defendant The
plaintiff asked for $4,000 damages, but didn't
get cent.
Recent deaths: At Munich, Bavaria, Johann
Klein, the eminent painter at st. Louis, of
consumption, Col James Mccoy, of Gen.
Sherman's staff.
The railroad war at the East has assumed
decidedly important aspect The Pennsylvania
Company refuses to allow any of the postal
cars of the Baltimore and Ohio road to pass over
its line from Philadelphia to New York. This,
of course, prevents the Baltimore and Ohio
from fulfilling it's contract for carrying the mails
between these points.
POLITICAL.
The Pennsylvania Republican State Conven-
tion met at Lancaster last week, and re-nomina-
ted Gov. Hartranft. Henry Rawle, of Erie, was
nominated for State Treasurer. The resolu-
lions favor protection to home industry,
cheap transportation, free banking, and safe
and uniform national currency, adjusted to the
growing wants Of the business interests of the
country equalization of soldiers bounties, and
the speedy adjustment of all claims arising out
of the late war. resolution was adopted de-
claring against third term, and another oppos-
ing the doctrine of State rights.
The President has availed himself of the OPP
portunity presented by the resolutions adopted
by the Pennsylvania Republican Convention to
definitely announce his views on the third-term
question. In letter addressed to Gen. Harry
White, President of the Pennsylvania Conven-
ton, Gen. Grant states that he was not willing
ly candidate either for first or for second
term. The reason given for not sooner answer
ing the assertions regarding his third-term can
didacy is, that heretofore the question has never
been presented in such form that he could,
without seeming undignifed, notice it. Now,
however, the reason no longer exists, and he
accepts the earliest occasion for reply. In
closing his letter he says 81 am not, nor have
ever been, a candidate for denomination
would not accept nomination if it were ten
dered, unless it should come under such cir
cumstances as to make it an imperative duty
circumstances not likely to arise ;,
Col. ]. H. Britton Democrat, has been in
augurated Mayor of st. Louis. 1t is not known
whether Mr.. Overstolz, independent, will con-
tinue the contest for the Office or not.
Foreign.
The Mark Lane cypress predicts poor crop |