Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-12
FROM WASHINGTON
Comes the News that Hayes has Removed
COnkling's Friends, Taking Advan-
tage OF the Adjournment OF
Congress to Do what
he Could Not
Otherwise AccOmp1ish-Appointment OF a
Board of Engineer Officers to Con-
slider and Report a Plan for
the Improvement of
the Mississippi.

WASHINGTON, July II I7Fbe President
TO- day removed General c. A Arthur, col
lector of customs at the port of New York,
and appointed General.E. A Merrill, present
surveyor of Customs of that port, in his stead
he also removed q: B. Cornell, naval officer,
and appointed as his Succession Srlas W.
Burt, the present deputy naval officer.
Subscriptions to the four per cent loan,
four hundred and ninety-six thousand i've
hundred dollars.
CALL FOR REDEMPTION BONDS.
tie sectstar4 Of the treasury called for the
following fve-twenty bonds of 1885. Princl-
pal and interest will be paid at the treasury
on and after the eleventh of October next,
and Interest will cease that day. Coupon
bonds dated July, and cotpon bonds daIeS
July LIST, 1865, namely: $50, Nos. ,E209l 70
IS 900, both lnclusive; 800, Nos. 1O6, OCT to
to Tic, 900, both inclusive; $5000 Nos. "a, 0Ol
to 76, 800, both ihclusivef $1,000, Nos. 135, OO1
to lao, 900, both inclusive; totd. hnmber cou-
pons, 81, 100000. Registered bonds redeen:.
| able at the pleasure of the United States at
ter the first of July, 1870. are as follows: $50,
hos. 2201 to 1858, birth inelusiyej $lOO, Nos.
| 1901 to II, $50, both InclusiFe; $se9; Nos.
| 1O,201 to 10, 450, both inclusive; $1,000, Nos.
| 80, FOL to 34,400, both inclusive; $1,000, Nos.
| 9IOl to $3.50. both inclusive; $4,000, Nos.
| l7;101 to II. 100, both inclusive; total regis
| tered, S2,50G, Geo, aggregate, S6,eOO,oOo.
By direction of the secretary Of war a
board of engineer fcers is constituted to
| taks iuto consideration the improvement OF
| low-water navigation of the Mississippi river;
| and to submit plan therefor, together with
a recommendation for the most practicable
measures to be adopted from time to time IN
| order to secure its earliest and most econom-
ical completion. The board will consist OF
Colonel f. G.. Bernard, Colonel 2. B. Tower,
| lieutenant Colonel FL. g. Wright; and the
| following officers in charge of the irhpro7e-
ments or surveys of the Missouri river dur
ing the consideration of specified portions
of the river for that portion of the river
above the mouth of the Illinois river: Colonel
F. H. Simpson and Major F. U. Farquhan;
! for that portion between the mouths of the
Illinois and Ohio: Colonel F. Il. Simpson and
Major G. H.. Suterj for that portion below the
mouth of the 0hioi Major G. i. Comstock
and Major C. r. Sutef.
The board will also take into consideration
and submit plans for the Improvement OF the
| low. water navigation of the Missouri river,
and the most practicable measures to be
| adopted to secure its earliest execution. For
| the consideration of this subject Colonel Z.
H. Simpson and Major G. r. Sutor will be
associated with the board as members there
Of The board will receive its Instructions
| from the chief of engineers, and make its re-
| ports to him. The board will assemble In the
| city of St. Louis on the fourteenth OF August
next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and
is authorized to adjourn from time to time
subject TO the call of its presiding officer, and
may meet at any point most suitable or con-
venient for the prosecution of the duties i'm.
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