Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-19
WASHINGTON.
Additional signal Stations EstabIishe ed
on the Lakes-The Demand for
Four Per Cents-Mint and
Treasury Statistics.
Deliberations OF the Railway Mail
SuDerintendents in Convention
They Resolve upon a Little
Experiment on Third
Glass Matter.

WASHINGTON, July IS The President
has appointed Thomas Helm register of the
land office at KerwiD, Kansas, in place o.
Frank Campbell, suspended.
Between the twentieth Of this month anC
the first of August the chief signal officer will
have established stations for the display o.
stationary signals at the following lake ports
Peatwater, huntington, Traverse City, Frank
FORT NJrthp0rt and Mackinac, in Michigan
on Lake M;chigan-Rogers City, East Trdv-
erse City, Port Austin, Forester and Bay City
Michigan; on Lake Huron-Mourop, Michi-
gan; Painsville and Ashtabula, Ohio, and
Dunkirk, New York; on Lake Erie and Char
lotte aud, Cape Vincent, on Lake Ontario
New York.
Owing to the numerous applications for
registered four per cent bonds of small de
nominations the treasury has been unable,
with all the clerical force which could be en-
plOyed therein, to fill orders as rapidly as re.
ceiyed. Purchasers of bonds should under
stand, however, that the interest will run
from the time of payment of bonds and
not from the date of their issue, and that the
little delay from time TO time on account OF
suddenly increased orders will result in no
loss or injury. The department is using every
possible exertlon, however, to prevent any
delay in the future, and in a few days will
probably be able to fill all orders upon their
receipt.
The director of the mint received a dis
patch to day from the superintendent of the
mint at San Francisco stating that since the
first instant five hundred and ifty-6ve thou
sand silver dollars had been exchanged at
that mint at par for gold coins.
The treasury department Oday issued a
statement showing the amount of State, ma
tional and United States notes, etc. ,outstand-
ing at the close of each fiscal year from 1860
to 1875, inclusive. The total amount in cur
rency outstanding June so, 1860, was $2O7,-
l02, All, all of which WAS State bank clrcula "a
ton. The amount outstanding June 80,
1873, was as follows: State bank circulation,
1926 04; national bank circulation, 1924,
514, 2S4; demand notes, Sc 229, $50; legal
tender notes, 1916, 68l ,0l6; one and two year
notes of 1868, $50, 485; compound interest
notes, S274, 800; fractional currency, $16, SAT,
1853. Total amount in currency, 1858, 597, 275.
According to the statement the value of a
paper dollar with coin on July LIST was
SO 10; value of currency in gold, $751;
465, 29l.
The convention of superintendent of the
railway mail service, superintendent of
mails and OF registration at the postottce,
continued its session to-day. The report of
the committee on the extension and modifi-
c4tion OF the through pouch system is to the
effect that the system could be extended with
benefit to the service, and recommending
such extension as saving of labor of rail-
way postoffice clerks; disappearing of open
ing through registered pouches, and recon-
mending an exchange OF through registered
pouches between some one line IN each super
lntendents division and New York city, in
order to test the prhcticabiiity of railway
postothee clerks pouching registered matter.
After amendment in the last particular,
permitting an experiment to be made with
other offices than New York, the report was
adopted. The report Of the committee having
under consideration the subject of registEa-
ton of thlrd-class matter, to the effect
that the extension of registration to third
class matter was advisable, was read, and
the following substitute adopted:
ResOIred, That this convention recommend
to the department that in order to test the
practicability of registering third-class mat
ter the experiment oe tried at ten frst-class
offices for period of four months from Octo-
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