Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-05-07
WASHINGTON.

A citizen OF Washington calls attention TO
the important fact that the writing of the
original Declaration of Independence is be-
coming so pale that Il will in a comparatively
short time be wholly undecipherable.
At the Cabinet meeting on the 9th ult., the
Secretary of the Treasury read statements
showing that the surplus receipts for April
will aggregate from $4,000, 900 to s12, 900, 900.
The report circulated on the 26th ult, that
United States men-of-war will be dispatched to
Canadian waters to protect American interests,
is pronounced erroneous.
The Secretary Of the Interior received dis
patch from Los Pinos Agency on the 29th ult.,
stating that miners and prospectors were daily
invading the Ute reservation.
Postmaster-General Key, it is reported at
Washington, win be appointed Judge Of the
United States District Court for Tennessee.
The United States relief ship Constellation
will sail for home about the 10th Of May.
The Comptroller of the Currency reports
that the total number of National banks or
ganized since November l, 1879, is forty, with
a capital Of s5,3l2,070 Nine banks, with a
capital of s1,3OO,OOO have gone into liquida-
tion since that time. The net increase of Ma
tional bank notes for the year ending May l,
1880, was Sl5900, 800. The total amount of
such notes outstanding at that date was S343,-
$4,000.
Postmaster-General Key was appointed to
the vacant United States Judgeship for the
eastern and middle district of Tennessee, on
the 30th ult.
The total value of imports during the first
eight months of the fiscal year ending June 30,
1879, was $2S7, sis, 500, and during the same
period of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880,
s397, ,305, l1S.
The President, on the SOth ult., nominated
Orange Ferris, of New York, Second Auditor
of the Treasury, vice French deceased.
At a Cabinet meeting, on the 30th ult., II
was decided TO send General Mckenzie and
his forces into the Ute reservation to prevent
a collision between the white trespassers and
the Indians.
A Washington dispatch says the Republican
members have agreed to cooperate with the
Democrats to secure an adjournment of Con
gress by the first of June.
Coinage at the United States mints during
April; Double eagles, 1884, 900; eagles, BIB,
100; half eagles, 2,317, 900; silver dollars,
$500 900; cents, 81 200; total coinage, 90, 1871,
900
The public debt statement for the month
ending April 80 shows decrease in the debt
during the month of $l2,07S070; decrease
since June 80, 1879, $5s,s99,5O2; total debt
S2,147, ,957, ,O4s, cash in Treasury, Sl99, ,464 1893
debt less cash in Treasury, Sl,06S, S,3l4,753
Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman died
at Washington on the lst
The Speaker, on the LIST, laid before the
House a letter from the Secretary of the Treas
ury in response to its resolution Of the 26tt
ult. calling for information as TO the cause
of the delay in the payment of claims fol
bounty and back pay allowed by the Second
Auditor Secretary sherman replies that the
official estimates of the amount required tC
pay such claims have been duly submitted tC
both Houses of Congress but no action has
been taken on them.