The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-11-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

Inc lOunderlnS OF inc steamship
Pacific, between Portland and San Francisco,
is announced. All ON board are reported
lost
Postal cards were issued by the post
office department last month, the largest
issue by at least 100000 ever made in the
same time.
The supreme court of Maine has re-
Gently decided that if person buys a rail
road ticket for passage between two given
points, he has n right to ride an equal dis
tancc anywhere on the road, and in any
direction. This decision is just one, as
the passenger is supposed to pay for so many
miles of transportation
The president has appointed John B.
Raymond postmaster at Vickbnrg, Missls-
sippi, in place of Henry r. Peasc, suspended
under the tenure of office act. Pease was
elected United States senator from Missis-
sippi, from February 1874, to last March, the
unexpired term of Gov. Ames. He was
then appointed postmaster at Vicksburg, and
now has been removed through the influence
of his colored successor, United States sena-
tor Bruce, aided by delegation from Mis-
sissippi.
The following statistics as to the opera
tions of the fast mail trains in the west have
been obtained from the pOstOllice depart
Ment The mail from the east and south
east into Chicago weigh daily an average OF
| 80, ,2O2 pounds. The mails from the north
east, east and south into st. Louis weigh daily
an average of 10,203 pounds. Mails from
st. Louis to Chicago weigh daily an average
of 1918 pounds. This includes only St.
Louis proper and Arkansas mails. Mails
from Chicago to st. Louis daily average
1853 pounds. This includes mail from north
of Chicago and from Michigan. Mails going
into Missouri for the country west and south
west of.and including that state, daily aver
age III, 1855 pounds This includes mails
from all directions, north, south and east
Mails from Cleveland from the south and
west daily average 800 pounds.
The volume of currency in actual cir
culation may be gathered from the following
statistics obtained from the treasury depart
ment: The amount of national bank note
issued by the currency bureau up to the q
of November, inclusive and now outstand
inr, was $3i5 ,sO2; the amount of lega
tenders; as per public debt statement Of tn
list of November, was $373,236,2H; the cur
rency in the treasury consists Of $9,73G,67l
of which about half is legal tender and one
half national bank notes; the fractional cul
rency, according to the debt statement, wa
siO,6s1 ,629. SO; adding this amount to tn
\ legal tenders ailoat, we have $i13,9l7, ,S73.SE
and deducting one-half the currency balance
we have $iO9,0i9, $3.50 as the amount c
government or federal currency actually j
| circulation. Deducting from the nationi
, bank notes issued half the currency balance
we find the amount of national bank not,
in actual circulation to $3i0,76L ,i66.5O, or
+ total currency circulation Of 37l9,Sl5,Wi.S
:. The amount of legal tenders in the treasul
r on the first Of November, held for REDEEM
, tion Of the national bank note circulatio
e was S20,23 S,6i2; but this is a part Of Il
c Sl73,O00,OO0 legal tenders, and the treasu
t officers regard it as being in actual circul
e ton. The amount Of money held by Il
r secretary OF the treasury being balances
:. disbursing officers, and held by him subje
/. to their checks, is not precisely known, b
a is roughly estimated at S3,O00,OCO or sl,oV
l. co. but varies from time to time. The tot
e amount of legal tenders deposited under .
G act of June 20, 1874, allowing banks to
e. duce their circulation, is S27952,132, T
e. amount of national bank notes actually
e. tired is sl2, 29,Sli, leaving sl5,222,5l5. 1
<. amount of legal tenders deposited by ban
rt going into liquidation is Si,6ll,692' 1