The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-07

Inc Oincldl ueDL stdtellleut lOr Jan. L. print
ed below shows an increase of the public in
debtedness for the month of December of
$1,915, 062.
Six per cent. bonds. ISL ,O176!5,4OO
Five per cent. bonds. $50
Total coin bonds. $50, 900 lGO
Lawful money debt. 14000,OO0
Matured debt........... 227l2'540
| Legal tenuefS. 81, hJb,SO2
| Certificates OF deposit.... 35l75,000
| Fractional currency...... 44l47,072
Coin certificates. ......... si,i9s'Sao
Total without interest ............. 4s2, All ,2Si
Total debt 50, 2O7, 129, 925
Total interest. ..................... 3S,Sl9,062
Total debt and interest 50, PAS 94s ,9s7
Cash in Treasury:
Com. .'............,Sl9o2i,448
currency ll,lli,344
Special deposits held for re-
demption of certificates
OF deposit. minimum. 3ol75,OOO
Total in Treasury. 126,l1G, 1872
Debt less cash in the Treasury. Il9 1872 1875
| Decrease Of debt during December 1.915, 062
Decrease since June 80, lS15......... $3.50, 1871
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway
Companies, interest payable in lawful
money: Principal OF standing ..... 64,6c3, $40
| Interest accrued and not yet paid ... 1885, 700
Interest paid by the Urited States $50. 28,202, s07
| Interest repaid by transportation of
mails, etc. ..................... 6GGs,92
! Balance OF interest paid by United
| states NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2lo33,So
A Washington correspondent states that Con-
gresham Holman has prepared a programme
for reducing appropriation bills $40 000 coo
over last year. He cuts public buildings down
so, 600 900, and allows no more to be started ;
abolishes the letter-carrier system in cities of
less than so, 600 inhabitants abolishes the Ma
rine Corps and closes up all the Navy Yards but
one or two; cuts the army and navy down one
third to one-half, stops river and harbor inn
provements almost entirely; reduces the sala-
ries of Postmasters one-half
George W. ingalls,, Indian Agent at Mus
koqu, l. T., has been suspended by Secretary
Chandler.
General.
battle was recently fought between
Mexics troops and Pesquiera's revolu-
tionarS forces in the State of Sonora, in
which the former were badly defeated. At
last accounts the insurgents were marching on
Hermosillo.
The Anglo-Americsn Cable Company has
made material reduction in rates. The tariff
for political and general news other than COM
mercial dispatches to the press, unabbreviated
and not in cypher, Will be one shilling (25 cents
in gold per word.
The year 1875 was good year for the pre-
ciou5 metals. A statement of the production in
the States and Territories west of the Missouri
River including British Columbia and the west
ern coast of Mexico, places the aggregate yield at
$50 800, OBJ, an increase of CAST, 9S2 over the
product of 1874, and the greatest yield ever
known. There was a decrease in California
Idaho, Utah and Washington Territory, and an
increase in the other districts. IN aggregate
yield Of 800, 600 600 is anticipated for 1876
Foreign.
A Madrid dispatch reports that the Alton
sists have concentrated 80, 600 men in Navarro
and Alava
The French Assembly has passed, after an
exciting debate, bill providing 70, continu-
ance of the state of siege in the cities of
Paris, Versailles, Lyons, and Marseilles
Ex-Queen Isabella strenuously insists upon
taking up her residence in Spain. The Minis
try, however are violently opposed to it, and
serious split among the Royalsts is threatened
in consequence.
The Kingdom of Portugal is making prepare
tons to be represented in proper manner at
our Centennial.
Certain German newspapers, taking the hor-
rible crime of Thomassen at Bremerhaven for
their text, have seen fit to descant unfavorably
upon American civilization, some of them hold |
ing up this exhibition Of brutality AZ one of the
natural outgrowths of our form of government |
American residents in Berlin, not willing to |
remain silent under such groundless aspersions
of their national honor held a meeting the |
other day, and entered solemn protest |
against the unwarrantable utterances of the |
German press declaring that Thomassen's |
crime affects the honor of the human race not |
that of any particular nationality.
Berlin dispatch says the meeting of the
American residents TO protest against the COM
ments of the German press Oh America has
thoroughly attained its object. The offending
journals have withdrawn their unfavorable re-
flections
The Spanish Government has confdentially
declared to the other European powers it's firm
resolution of satisfying all just complaints of
the Cubans.
A Bremerhaven detective is now in Liverpool
engaged in a search for accomplices of Thomas
sen, the dynamite demon, and the suspicion
has been raised that the steamer City of Boston,
which sailed from New York in January, 1870,
and was nevermore heard of, was freighted
with an internal machine which blew the vessel
to atoms in md-ocean and left not plank nor
a survivor tc tell the terrible story.
The British steamer Dante has been lost in
g. Georges Channel. Twenty-three persons
lost their lives by the disaster.
1t is rumored that Germany next proposes to
yobble up Belgium and that the latter is not
opposed to being gobbled.
Heavy rains and damaging floods are reported . !.
n the North of Scotland
CASTELAR, is candidate for the Spanish Par
lament on platform embracing universal sufl- |
age free universities, and separation of the