Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-28
WASHINGTON.
Troops Ordered 20 Hamburg Coinage
OF Trade-DOllars stopped
grafton Statistics.
No Vote on the Currency Question =
he Steamboat Bill Congress and
the Death OF Senator Capertou.

WASHINGTON, July 27.-TeIegrapbi,
instructions have been sent the com
.manding officer at Columbia, Soutl
| Carolina, ordering the commanding off
Ger Of the United States troops st Aiken
30 detail an officer with q picked cusT,
OF twelve men, for duty at Hamburg
| Eight companies of artillery have bee L
ordered to the department OF the Mis-
| siouri, and Lieutenant-C COlonels Dddley
Of the Ninth cavalry, and Otis Of the
| Seventh cavalry have been ordered 10
| join their regiments.
COINAGE OF TRADE-DOLLARs STOPPED
The secretary OF the treasury has
stopped the coinage of trade dollars at
the Philadelphia and Carson City mintp,
and orders the San Francisco mint TO
coin only sufficient to meet the actual
export demand. The mints will be run
to their full capacity on subsidiary coin
and necessary gold cOinsge.
IMMIGRATION STATISTICS.
The official TetUr As made to the bureau
OF statistics show that during the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1875. there arrived
10 the United states q. 572 Chinese I'M
migrants, Of wAom only 259 were fe-
males. Daring the corresponding period
of 1875 the total immigration TO the
United States from China was l6 437, OF
whom ~ were females.
NO VOTE ON TIE CURRENCY QUT TSTION.
The committee on banking and cur
reney again failed to vote on the cur
rency question to-day, Mr.. Cox being
absent on account Of illness.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Se,aGte.-Tmmediatel after the read
ing of the journal, Senator Baysrd said:
| am sure the senate and The country
will be deeply affected by the announce
ment Of the melancholy event Of yes
terday, the death Of our late friend and
brother, Allen T. C4pertop, senator from
West Virginia. l move, as q mark of
respect so justly due to the memory Of
this excellent and honorable man, that
the senate stand adjourned until 10. NOR
row at eleven o'clock. Senator Steven
son said he concuTred in what had been
said by the senator from Delaware; he
moved that a C Ommittee of four senators
be appointed to accompany the remains
of the de ceased to his late residence in
West Virginia. Agreed to, and the
chair appointed Senators Davis, Cooper,
Booth and Hitchcock uch committee.
The motion Of Senator Bayard WAS then
agreed to, and the senate adjourned.
H0nse.-MT. Foster, from Ehe commit.
tee on appropriations, reported back the
senate bill appropristing one hundred
thousand dollars for the construction OF
the Washington monument. Passed
with amendments, one of which in-
crePses the amount to two hundred thou.
sand dollars. A message from the senate
announcing the death of Senator Caper-
ton, OF West Virginia, wes presented,
whereupOn, on motion of Mr.. Wilson, the
usual resolutions were adopted. Msssrs.
Wilson, Banks, Luttrell, Douglass, Hsr-
denburg, Faulkner and KGsson were ap-
pointed a committee to accompany the
body to West Virginia. The house then
adjourned. a
THE STEAMBOAT BILL
The senate committee on commerce
held meeting this evening, and took
up and sgreed on the steamboat bill,
and directed Senator Boutwell, to report
1t to the senate. The senate committee
has entirely remcdeled the bill, as
agreed on to day, and leaves the law
SIS it now exists.