Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-08-01

How TIE SAN Francisco BANKS MAKE
A NICE LITTLE Per CENT.-Just now tht
bankers aud merchants Of San Francisco arc
making their exchange out It the Natlona
Treasury. Tue way in which they make q
nice thing cut of the Government is described
10 San Francisco paper as follows:
Ordinarily, at this season OF the year, before
the wheat crop comes to market in large guam
titles and furnishes exchange, our lndebte dne5
to the east and to Europe for goods imported !:
settled by the remittance of gold 10 New orb
ia considerable amounts. This year the amoun
of gold sent ovarland from July to Jul y IL !:
only $50, 1856. against Sl.526. 300 for the CIR
responding period last season. and this depart
ure from the ordinary course OF trade Is &C
counted for by the existence OF silver certh
Gates.
1t costs about per cent. 10 send gold by tx
press 1t costs little to send silver certificates
and az these are available for payment OF Gus
toms duties in New York and can consequently
be disposed ofat par, or 8 fraction below par it
gold, our bankers arc sending them instead oil
cola, and so saving the transportation charges
In STIMULATING that purchases Of silver would bt
paid for only in silver standard dollars
The treasury officials thought, perhaps tina
they would succeed in getting cartaiu guam
tity OF these coins into circulation. Ii go they
have been disappointed.
The silver dollars dsburscl q payment o.
bullion are simply deposited at the sub
treasury here, and silver certificates taken II
return. These are forwarded t. New York
and find their way directly to the treasury
through the Custom House. The silver dol
lars remain on deposit here, and ii gold is no
directly paid Tor them the result is the same
since the gold revenue of the COVER nment /:
diminished by exactly tho amount OF silver
certificates received instead. The operation
simply gives San Francisco bankers an opDor
uul,y to save nearly ono half per cent. upor
their remittanoes without getting sing lie stan
dard dollar into circulation. Some alteration
in the treasury programme is eV identity IN order
A WEES WRoNGs. The suit Of Mrs. Kate
Carpenter for divorce from her husband, John
r. Carpenter, filed yesterday -ecil es terrible
array Of alleged facts which, if true, will tend
to make this cause colebre. The parties were
married io this city December 81, 1867, &C.
oording to the allegation, by the Rev. -, Z.
Smith, the lady's namo being Ball. After
living in various places they settled 10 New
York, 10 1874. when he commenced to gamble.
failed to support his family, and ssuandered
their household goods, including his wite's
sewing machine. She farther alleges that
she then had to seek employment, and that
she obtained place as reporter on the New
York Herald to report sermons, lectures, el>c.
On the I'd of February. 1877, the defendant 8
alleged to have committed adultery and big
amy by marrying one Annie E. Welcb. at
Mount Clair, N. j., for which latter crime he
was sentenced to imprisonment for two years in:
the Trenton Jail. Another allegation 10 the
declaration is that he has four times tried to
poison his wife, onco before and three times
after bis marriage with Mrs. WEIGH. On one
of these occasions he was SO certain of having
comprised her death, says tho bill, that he
borrowed $3.50 from tho editor of the New
York Times for tho purpose of burying her,
telling the lender that his wife had died the
night previous. For this ofense, she states,
he was tried, but the result is not told. Alb.
solute divorce and the right to resume her
maiden name are sought Wash, Post.