The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-09-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ore.l.ona-nee Of The slanaara.


From the monthly statement Of the
p1blic debt recently issued 10y the
Treasury Department the following
items are condensed as of vital public
iaterest. Bonds bearing interest in coin
at q, .. A. and 1 per cent, amount,
in the order named, 90 S123, ,553, $50;
s703, ,266, $50; $3.50, ,OO00, 900; SlIl, $50, =
900; total debt bearing interest @ per
cent. in lawful money. navy pension
fund, sll, 600, 900. Debt on which in
tercst ceased after maturity, Sll,973,
6J0.2G. Debt bearing no interest, old
4 'mRnd and legal tender notes, $40, =
! 7l3, ,25G. 90. Certificate Of deposit, $40, =
lS0,0 600. Fractional currency, sl6,-
35l, TBS. Coin and silver certificates,
sH, or, $50; total. Sij6, ,572 .s9i; total
debt. - ,30l ZIG, ,9Si. sc; interest, ST.
/ Sl0.9 Z. -: cash in the Treasury, coin,
] S]3s. 400, 700; currency. S2,022, 1877;
currency held for redemption Of frac-
tional currency, $40, 900, 600; special de-
posit held for redemption Of certiii-
Gates Of deposit, $40, iG0. 900; total,
/ 500. O02, ISL debt less cash in Treasury
Sept !, 1878. 81, 129, 105, ,02O; the same
Aug ], 1873, s2,O35, $50. .523; decrease
Turing the month, SG,l75, 50i; since
June / 1879, SG,6sl, ,sll.75 bonds is-
,ued TO Pacific Railroad Companies.
interest payable in lawful money: prin-
cipnl outstanding, SCI, ,G23,5l2, accured
interest not yet paid. SG4G, 235. II, in
,crest paid by L. S. $40, ,s35. .O39. Sc, in
torest repaid 10y transportion Of mails,
etc. $40. ,7l9.
The many matters that have come
forward to engage public attention
since the adjournment Of Congress
\ seem to have crowded the fishery award
nut Of sight; but Mr.. Evarts week ago,
and in accord with the expressed desire
II Congress, addressed a letter TO the
/ British Government, stating the
grounds for the general sentiment ex-
istinp throughout the country that the
award was excessive. Ne reply has
been received. A recent order from
Mr.. Sherman's department directs col
lectors Of customs 10 obtain reports
from all masters of fishing vessels ar
irving in their District, showing the
quantity and kind Of fish taken by the
! vessls within three miles Of the Cana
dian shores. IL is presumed that the
object is 10 obtain more definite data
\ with which 20 reinforce the protests al
ready made against exactipg payment
I ~ an award that is almost uniformly
\ lissented from as without foundation
I ia equity.
While the action Of Gov. Rice in re-
i fusing 10 give mp kempton on the re-
QUESTION OF Wade Hampton seems to
\ have been very comforting to Senator
/ patterson's friends, the partisans Of
Hampton profess TO be in no wise dis
couraged by the adverse decision in
/ question. It il intimated that kiup-
T ton will be kept under surveillance and
I nabbed nj the first favorable opportu-
uity. The reasons given for Gov.
Rico's refusal 10 surrender kimpton
we're because the granting Of the war
rant lies in the Governors discretion:
that Kimpton's alleged crime was com
mitted in 1872, aud that no attempt
was made 10 punish him until SIX years
later; that there IL now no apparent
disposition 10 try him on the indict-
ment, that ovcrturos have repeatedly
been made (Once or more since his ar
restl, Offering him immunity IL he
\ would remove 10 South Carolina aud
volunteer as a witness against other al
leQed criminals, and that the indict-
ment appears to have been found for
an ultenor purpose.
We have got around again 10 that
point in the circle in which we revOlve,
where the Mexican question was last
dropped, and from the sanguinary
mauner and talk a the unassigned ma
iors, colonels and generals always
hanging about our hotels, and prompt
TO respond 10 any chance ivitation 70
imbibe, we are 20 have war whether
Mexico IL agreed or not. There seems
a settled purpose on the part Of those
responsible for the protection Of ouI
frontiers that raiding shall cease. But
10 the face Of the disposition manifest.
ed by Diaz, particularly during the
past few weeks, 10 remove ell csnse oi
complaint on our part, war will moi
probably be insisted on just 10 CRAFTY
handful OF srrant braggarts.
The astonishing combination o.
. Greenbackers, Nationals and Demo
Gratis which took the place of the Dem
Ocratic party 10 Maine, has apparentl,
succeeded in electiug two members o
Congress out of FIVE, aud in getting
control of one branch 81 the Legisla
ture. To state what the combination
was n 90 prove It's eDhemeral character
and. so the election leaves the Repub
: licaus with n majority Of the represent
atives, the two Senators and an unim
paired organizatiJn. Rrhecting Repub
ncsns can hook upon the result will
syme complacency. MILToN.