The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-07

1, $349, 10, 424. Amount of national-bank
notes outstanding Feb. /, $500, 629,690, to-
gether with $1,432,12O national gold bank
notes.
The House Committee on Public Lands has
agreed to the bill extending the time for COM
pletion of the Northern Pacific railroad for ten
years. and protecting the rights of settlers.
The Third Assistant Postmaster General has
telegraphed and written to the Postmaster at
New York as follows Trade dollars not being
legal tender, you are not obliged to receive
them. A joint resolution of Congress- approved
July %, 1876, is the authority upon which the
above decision is based. The second section of
the law referred to contains the following ex-
picit provision: The trade dollar shall not
hereafter be legal tender"
The silver certificates proposed to be issued
in the amendments offered in the Senate by
Messrs Booth and Morgan are to be received
for all dues Of the Government, including Gus
toms duties.
According to a statement of the Chief of the
Bureau of Statistics, the value of the merchan-
the calendar year 1877 was 10000, 600; value
of imports, 1880 ZOO, 900; excess in value of ex-
ports, $40, 600, 600.
1t is announced from Washington that the
House Pacific Railroad Committee have agreed
to report in favor of an extension Of the time
to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company on
condition that the lands shall remain open to
settlement until earned, and shall be subject
to taxation after being earned as fast as SOLD
or consented to be sold. In case of default,
the lands granted are to revert to the Govern
ment. Ten years extension is granted on the
main line.
The public debt statement for Feb. is as
follows:
Six per cent. bonds. $748.66I lOO
Five per cent bonds. 1U3,2 ooooU
Four and half per cent. bonds. ....... 200 ,OoOOO0
Four per cent bonds ........... 75,000,00g
Total coin bonds. S., TIC, 1888. $50
lawful money debt 100000
Matured debt II, 599,620
Legal lenders. of0.1 iooHa
Testimonies of denosit 31,115.G09
Fractional currency. !o'4oa a9a0
Coin certificates ..................... 4A' oo'ooo
Total without interest ......$ 440,494,641
Total debt 50, 1873, O28O11
Total interest. %. 427834
Cash in treasury-coin. ........$ 12s, ,9S9
Cash in treasury-currency . 3,170,490
tional ' currency r1 1cy 100000
Special deposits held for redemption
Of certificates OF deposit. 3l,ll5,OOo
Total in treasury. III, ,479
Debt less cash in treasury 2,O44 2S7 1866
Decrease of debt during January. 1,668,076
Decrease since June 80 l877. II, 870,857
Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Com
panies, interest payable in lawful
money; principal outstanding 800. 64,623,5I2
Interest accrued and not yet paid. 3z5, ~
Interest paid by United States 37,096,334
mails. etc. ..................... 90O6, 1862
States ........................ 26s89,472
Another mysterious treasury theft is re-
ported. A package of 1900 was taken from
a safe in the Redemption Bureau, and mo one
has an idea where it went or by whom it was
taken.
The Treasury Department has ordered an
investigation of the circumstances attending
the loss of the steamer Metropolis.
Federal appointments Joseph W. Huston,
United States Attorney for the Territory of
Idaho; Thomas Adamson, SftPenpsylvania,
Consul General at Rio de Janeiro Ernest L.
Oppenheim, of New York, United States Con-
sui at Guttenburg Edward Wheeler, Collector
of Internal Revenue for Arkansas.