Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-17
WASHINGTON.
LITTLE BREECHES.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-The appointment of
Col. John Hay, the we'll known private secre-
| tary to President Lincoln, as assistant score
| tary of state is announced to day at the de-
| partment. Stewards retirement is in obedience
| to controlling domestic considerations.
THE MINT.
The report of horatlo O.. Burchard, director
| of the mint, was submitted to the secretary of
erations of United States minis and ASSAY
offices during the fiscal year ended June so,
1879. During the year the total deposits OF
gold and silver. including silver purchases,
amounted to $7l 179, 654, of which $42, 254, 1856
were gold and $2S, 9s5, 497 were silver. OF the
anS snS9Sts s 20 of . SGld
were of domestic Production $9soss of I god
and 81 ,O60, 779 of silver were United States
coin, 81, O69 796 Of gold and 81 672, 9l9 of sill
YER were of foreign bullion, $l4 98S, 1877 of gold
| and $685., 632 of silver were foreign coin, and
1881. Isl of gold and $2OS, 600 of silver were of
plate aud other manufactured articles. The
fneries of coinage, mints and the assay office
at New York were 500, 759,549 of
gold $lU,GS7,526.97 of silver. The coinage
during the year amounted to $6S,3l2, 500, and
consisted of 2,759,42l pieces of gold of the
value Of SAC, 9S69l2, and 27,22S, $50 pieces of
| actual use of gold as part of the circulation
| consequent upon the convertibility of United
States notes into coin, it was antici pated
would create demand for smaller denomina-
tions of gold coin and during the last fiscal year
there has been larger coinage of eagles. half
eagles and quarter eagles than in any preceding
year during period of sixteen years. The
coinage of eagles and half eagles will be con-
tinued till the demand is satisfied. The silver
coinage has been almost exclusively of stan
dard silver dollars, of which 1921, 500 were
coined during the year, and the total coinage
to November l, 1879, has been II, 206, 200.
The total amount of subsidiary coin issued
since the passage Of the resumption act was
S42, 974.93l. The full amount coined was
43,994, 03l, but $l,020,00O in dimes, was re-
coined INFO pieces of larger denomination, at
the mint at San Francisco. Bars manufac-
tured' tine and imported, amounted to s22,-
O22.Gl4 of which $12,976,8l2 we're gold and
S3,0i2, S02 silver, The total amount of gold
bars was $l2, SIG, Sl2; the total amount of sill
yer bars, $9,O45, S02.
The director thus closes his report: The true
policy of this country is such conservative
and silver to their former relations, upholdlng
the one and preventing the appreciation of the
other until it can be determined whether the
commercial nations are willing that both met
als should be yoked for equal monetary SER
vices, but in case the use of silver as money
hust DC apahooneu, IL Is gratifying
to believe that the vast resources,
a ricuiture and mineral wealth, present devel-
opmcnt Of the mining and manufacturing in
terest and facilities for inland commerce, the
comparative lightness of taxation and relief
from heavy foreign Indebtedness, and, above
ell, the productive genius, industry, inventive
skill and capacity of the people of the United
States will enable them to retain, or as now,
draw from abroad the gold needed for mon
etary use and that commercial disaster and
depression threatened or feared az result of
restricting the commercial world to one metal
are more likely to fall on the nations that in1-
tiated AID are responsible for the movement.
The Grant Furore in Chicag, Being Over