The Portland daily press., 1875-03-10
WASHINGTON.
The Proposed Re irem emit of Bonds.


WASHINGTON, March 9.-It is intimated at
the Treasury Department that the contempat-
ed call for the retirement of thirty millions
of bonds on account of the shaking fund will
not be made for day or two and 1T has not
yet been absolutely decided what the numbers
of the bonds to be called in are, nor can it yet
be learned whether they will be all registered
or coupon, or what proportion of each denomi-
nation of the bonds is intended to be called in.
Treasury Balances.
The following are the Treasury balances for
to-day :-Currency, SO, ,23S; special deposit
of legal tenders for redemption OF certificates OF
deposit $4670, 900; coin, SIS, 81 1856, including
coin certificates, 1922, 619, 400; outstanding legal
tenders, $685., 900. 900.
Nominations Confirmed.
The Senate this afternoon confirmed the fol-
lowing nominations &c. S. Orth of Indiana,
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary to Austria and Hungary; Horace May
nard. minister resident of the United States at
Constantinople Lemuel Evans United States
marshal for the eastern district of Texas, vice
Thomas P. Ochiltree.
A Question under the New Revenue Laws.
The new revenue act under which the Is per
cent additional duty is levied upon sugar,
meado and molasses placed on ship board and
bound to the United States after the 10th of
February, 1875, is construed at Baltimore to
mean that any such cargo cleared from port
for the United States after the 10th is liable to
the new duty, whether partly on board previous
to that date or not. 1t IS commended that car
90 cannot be divided under the act, but that
the whole must pay the rs per cent. additional.
The importer of cargo of sugar which cleared
at West Indies port after the 10th, but which
was partly on board prior to that date, Will pro-
test against this ruling, and when assessments
are made the question will be referred to
the United States Treasury Department for de-
cision
Various Matters.
The President sent to the Senate to-day the
following nominations Don A. Pardee, as
United States District Judge for the district of
Louisiana; Rowland G. Usher as United States
Marshal for Massachusetts,; William l.. Burt,
as postmaster at Boston.
The internal revenue receipts to-day were
1913, 1874, and the customs recei is 1896, 559.
Among those who had interviews with the
President to day were Senators Mcdonald, Nc
MILAN, Boutwell,, Dawes ex Senator Spra2ue,
Bishop Ames, Generals ingalls, and Alverd,
Gov Brooks vf Arkansas, and Representatives
Garfield, Whitley, Parker, Niback, Morey,
McNutter and ex-R Representative Poland.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
that under the act of Feb. 1875, amending the
existing customs and internal revenue laws,
yellow sheathing, metal and yellow metal bolts
must pay the duty imposed on manufactures of
copper, and are entitled to drawback when
used in the construction or repair of vessels
bnilt in the United States employed in foreign
trade.
The President to-day sent to the Senate
supplemental treaty with Belgium, with a view
of better securing reciprocal relations between
the two countries.
The Hawaiian treaty was informally trans
ferred to-day to the new committee on foreign
relations.
The aggregate sum in the. twelve general APP
preparation bills passed during TIE tie late session
of Congress, is about S175,000,0OO apart from
other bills containing appropriations
Among the bills defeated during the late e s tS
sion of Congress was that for the beneht OF the
Bayfield, & St. Croix Railroad, the object being
to confirm to the company about S3oO,OOo in
cssh and S15,OOO0OO worth of pine timber
lands.
A draft of message which the President
was preparing to send to the Senate Vetolng
the bill for the equalization of soldiers bountles
is published 1t contains the Presidents rea-
sons a. already given some time since.
Brig Rietta from Baltimore, ashore at Queens
town, will probably become a wreck Bark M.
G. Coming from Mobile for Revel has arrived
at r. msgate leaky and with loss of SAILS Bark