Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-14
WASHINGTON.
Ten Million 8 20 Bonds Called In
Report of the Department of
Agriculture for Aug. 1.
Corruption Unearthed in the
Marine Corps,
The Treasurer Preparing fol
Resumption.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-A call for ten
dollars worth Of bOnds will be is
sued by the Treasury Department to-day,
the syndicate having made another sub
scriptiOn for that sum. This leaves but
s., SS5, 755 of new five per cent bonds in
the hands of the Secretary and the syndi
cate has until November Is to take this
amount.
Treasury Department, Aug. 10, 1870
By virtue OF authority given by act Of Con-
gress, approved July IA, 1870, entitled an
act 10 authorize the refunding at the IA
tional debt, hereby give notice that the
principal and accrued interest of bonds
hereinbeloW designated, known as $40
bonds, tWill be paid at the Treas
ury Of the United States, Washington, on
and after the 18th day Of November, 1875,
and that interest on said bonds will cease
that day, that is to say bonds Of the acts
of March 8, 1864, and June 80, 1864, as
follows: Six per cent. restored bonds of
the act Of March 8, 1864, one hundred dol
lars, No to Y, both inclusive; 500 dol
lars, No. to AZ, both inclusive, one thou
sand dollars, No. to 253, both, inclusive;
five thousand dollars, No. I to 1856, both
inclusive, Total eco. June 80, 1854, cou-
pom bonds-ffty dollars, No. to $50, both
inclusive; one hundred dollars, No. l to
:, 100, both inclusive; five hundred dOllafs,
No. to 4,3O0, birth inclusive; one thou
sand dollars, No. l to 1920, both inclu-
siye. Total 100000. Registered bonds
fifty dollars, No. to so, both inclusive; 100
dollars, No. l to %, both inclusive;
$500, No. / to 500, bOlG inclusive; 81 900,
No. to 1,l00, both inclusive; 5000, No.
l to 500, both inclusive; $4,000, No. l to
1,520, both inclusive. Total, S5,555, 400.
Grand total, S10,OO0,O00. OF the amount
outstanding embraced in the numbers as
above, S5,5OO,000 are coupon bonds, and
S4,EUO,O00 are registered bonds. United
States securities forwarded for redemption
should be addressed to the Loan Division,
Secretsry's Office, and all registered bonds
should be assigned TO the Secretary OF the
Treasury for redemption.
CT. BURNASi, Act'g Sec'y.
The Cotton Outlook.
Returns Of the Department Of Agricul-
ture for Aug. /, show an improvement Of
the cotton crop of per cent in North
Caroliua, per cent in Mississippi and 4
per cent in Arkansas. These States were
largely favored with the same condition of
growth. which had secured their high aver
ages Of July. Texas maintained her
previous figures, drought in some counties
being cOuuterbalanced by fine weather in
others. Tennessee lost 2 Pc cent, mostly on
account Ofinjuries to bottom land crops from
rains. In Louisiana the average declines
6 per cent. on account Of local drought,
though several parishes report very promis-
ing crops. This injurious influence cut
down the average of Georgia IL per cent,
of South Carolina Is per cent. and Florida
16 per cent. August averages were as fol-
lows:
North Carolina 90, South Carolina 81,
Georgia SO, Florida IS, Alabama 70, Missis-
sippi lO4; Louisiana 80; Texas SO, Arkan-
sss los, Tennessee l07.
Denied.
It can be authoratively stated there IS no
foundation in fact for the statements that
appeared 10 the effect that serious differ
ences exist between the Secretary Of the
Treasury and the United States Treasurer.
Another Bonanza OF Corruption I'm
Special TO the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The following from the Washington
Chronicle of 20 day is supposed 70 refer TO
the United States Marine Corps: "TheTe
have been slight Irregularities charged
against an institution Of the Government
in the south eastern section Of the city, and
certain men are marked in connection with
the matter. When a Congressional Inves-
tigation Committee begins to work on this
institution, as it surely will, the biggest
bonanza Of fraud and corruption, running
through the last twenty years, will be
shown up, and a sensation as is a sensation
will be created. II involves brick houses
horses and carriages, farms, pious men and
fast women"
Hard Times.
This morning the Postmaster General re
ceived from Germany an exchange draft fOi
$500 in gold, and balance due this govern
meut on postal mOney-Order business for the
quarter ending March 81, 1875. This il
the first time in the history of postal money
orders that any balance has been found to
the credit of the United States as between
this and the European country. A couple
OF years since it was usual for the UniteC
States to become indebted by the posta
money-Order business - the amount o
three or four thousand dollars a week. Th'
change, the Postmaster General says, is al
indication of harder times in this cOuntT.
and better times in Europe.
Fractional Resumption.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-The actua
amount of five per cent. bonds sold on &C
count of the Specie Resumption Act i
S1O,5O0,O0O. The silver bullionfund fOOts u
Sl5,OOOOO0, which with the bars and coineu
silver on hand last January amounts b
nearly S2OOOO,OO0. In beginning the re
demp.ion of fractional currency, it is III
derstoOd 10 be the intention Of SecretaT
Bristow to call in all the denomination
under fifty cents, which includes the three
five, fifteen and twenty-five cent notes Is
sued since 1862, and which, it is estimated
will require S20,0G0,O0O often, twenty an
twenty-five cent subsidiary coin to prOvid
for the temporary boarding and the az
tual demands of business. The fifty Ger
notes will then be called in. Th
actual amount of fractional currency to b
replaced is, in round numbers, but $4,000
600, more than one-fourth Of the amour
now reported IN circulation having bee
DESTROYED, the evidence Of this being tina
of the first three series long since called IL
and aggrpgating over ST., 100000, not SlOO
600 was received during the last fiscal yea
Already the minis have shipped 10 the Sui
Treasury and designated repositories larg
sums of the new cOIDs, and through theI
the Issue will be made and the rag none
received. The Treasurer now says that
million of dollars Of the hard money ca
be issued in New York in short time q
a cost not exceeding 500.
ReckIessuess OF Life.
A short time since, the Captain Of th
Plymouth Rock, a steamer which is run b
Alessrs. Jarrett 81 Palmer Of Black CroO
fame as a pleasure boat along the Atlanti
coast, was fined five hundred dollars by ID
United States authorities, for carrying MOI
passengers than her certificate Of insPectlo
permitted. Under the law she is above
/ to carry only sixteen hundred, and on r
cent trip from Boston to Msrtha's Vinegar
| she took on board over four thousand soul
| There are very few excursion boats thu
| comply with the law in this regard, an
unless it is enforced the result will De
| terrible loss of life some day, for whiC
| there will be "nObody to blame
Jefferson Davis.
The portrait Of Jefferson Davis, SecTetal
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