Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-01
DOMESTIC NEWS
The Carson Mint Question-Piain Talk
from Director Burchard.

The Carson Mint Question-Piain Tall
from Director Burchard.
Special to the RECORD UNroN.1
WASHINGTON, April 30th.-It having beer
assigned as a reason for the temporary closing
of the Carson Mint last November that suf
icient bullion could not be purchased to KEEP
the Mint in operation, Representative Dag
gett, on the 18th instant, addressed letter
to the Secretary of the Treasury, PROFOUND
ing sundry interrogatories concerning the
cost of transportation of uncoined and coined
bdllion from San Francisco to New York OF
Washington, from Carson to New York and
San Francisco, and from San Francisco tc
Virginia City, with a view of ascertainine
why bullion could not be purchased, coined
and shipped East as cheaply at Carson as al
San Francisco. Secretary Sherman has TO-
day sent to Daggett a detailed answer in the
form of a letter from the Director of the
Mint.
Director Burchard first notices statement
of Representative Daggett, that the bullion
produce of Nevada is to large extent con
sumed in the payment of the cost of produc.
ton, and that the removal of uncoined gold
and silver from the State, consequent upon
the closure of the Mint at Carson, subjects
the producer to charges for transportation OF
his bullion.
Burchard, in reply to this complaint, re-
marks that the Carson Mint is now, and has
been continually, open for the deposit Of
gold bullion and the purchase of silver
bullion, and bullion fund has been main
tanned, by means of which gold depositors
and silver sellers have been paid the value OF
the bullion by them delivered as soon as ii
could be ascertained, but although it has
thus been continually open for the purchase
of silver b1l1lIOO N lots of lass than IN 00i
ounces at the same rates as at the San Fran
cisco Mint and although at the same time
the Department has been ready to receive
and consider offers for the sale of larger lots,
yet from July 1, 1879, to April l, 1880, only
-30S, 900 ounces of silver bullion has been
delivered at the Mint, being but little
more than the supply for one months coin
age if the Mint was run to its full capacity.
"This, continues Burchard, sis diff
equity over which the Department has no con-
troll. The owners of bullion cannot be COM
peeled to deposit or sell the same against their
inclination. The Carson Mint was closed for
coinage for the reason that sufficient silver
bullion-the deposits of gold being merely
nominal-could not be procured.at the market
rate to continue the coinage operations. The
cost of coming at Carson is slightly in excess
of that at San Francisco, because the cost of
obtaining supplies is somewhat greater but
this fact was not taken into consideration in
suspending the coming operations"
In conclusion, Director Burchard says that
sufficient bullion has been purchased at the
Carson Mint to run it until the commence
ment of the annual settlement next June, and
refers to the order given on the 10th instant
for the resumption of coinage operations, but
he makes no promise to continue them during
the next fiscal year.
Figuring the Strength of Grant and
Blaine.
NEW York, April 1.-The Tribune says :
Yesterday was Blaiues day. The California
Republican Convention is reported to have
been unanimous for him, and the delega-
ton was instructed to act as unit This
means twelve votes for Blaine in the Chicago
Convention, and it is an index of the unani-
nous Blaine sentiment of the Pacific coast
The Blaine sentiment among South Carolina
delegates, which was known to exist before
the Convention met is making itself heard.
Dispatches received late Wednesday night
gave Grant and Sherman each five delegates
and Blaine four, but said all would no doubt
obey their instructions, which were to vote
as unit for Grant. The Blaine Club in
Washington now has advices that six of the
delegates will support the Maine Senator
from the beginning. The wish may be father
to the expectation, but In any event, the
IuOFd1 cHSCG Vi d SOllQ uelepdIlOu Is ueSCTOYeQ.
The results of the Maryland Republican pri-
maries show that the Blaine men control Is
counties out of "a. ana will, of course, do
what they please with the State Convention.
One offset to all this is the election of an in
structed Grant delegation from Arkansas
This brings u votes to the Grant column,
and is headed by ex-senator Dorsey and
Clayton, who liked the first and second terms
well enough to be anxious for third.
Unprecedented Immigration.
New York, April 30th.-The arrival of
$3.50 immigrants at Castle Garden yesterday
makes the total for the month thus far
4S, PSI, which is greater number than ever
before landed here in any one month. There
has been large increase in immigration of
Hungarians, owing to the terrible distress
which prevails in the northern districts.
People have been reduced to the lowest
depths of restitution. Hundreds of families
are fleeing from the sufferings awaiting those
who remain. 1t is said that the authorities
of Hungary are becoming alarmed at the
large emigration of their people, and are be-
ginning to consider means to check this de-
population of their country.
NEW YORK, April 30th.-Six ocean steam
ers arrived to-day, bringing 1886 immigrants
from all parts of Europe. The total arrivals
for April is 46, lis, the largest number ever
al OaStlc OaEuen III
Westward.boundP Passengers.
OMAHA, April S0th.-The following through
passengers were on to-day's train, leaving at
1890 P. NJ, to arrive in Sacramento May
4th: John McGrath, Boston; Captain F.
P. Jocelyn, U. S. A; S. A. Van Praag,
New York ; A. L. Stevens, Stevens, Mich. !;
Miss J. Alleger, San Francisco; f. E. Gill,
Bay City, Mich. Z. B. Shattuck and wife,
Worcester, Mass. ID. w. Griffin, Louisville,
KY; H. J. Taylor, wife and two children,
Athens Ala Miss A. S. Bond, Sandwich
Islands: NJ. K. Ackerman, Chicago; w. G..
Wilson, Queenstown.
Eighty-six through emigrants left on last
nights emigrant train, to arrive in Sacra-
mento May 7th.
Long-Pending Patent Suit Decided.
NEW YoRK, April S0th.-The "rivet
suit - of Levi Stratus & Co., of San Fran
cisco, against H. W. King & Co., of Chi
cago, for an infringement of the patent for
protecting pocket-openings of garments from
ripping by means of rivets, was to-day de-
cided in favor of plaintiff by Judge Blatch-
ford, in the United States Circuit Court.
The action has been pending since 1876, and
was vigorously contested. Over 400 wit
resses were examined all over the United
States. The Court overrules the alleged de-
sanse, sustains the novelty of the patent
nd the ability of the invention. 1t holds
defendants to be infringers, and orders a
decree against them for perpetual injunc-
SION and damages.
The Wine Market.
NEW York, April 30th.-The Bulletin says
of French brandies and wines Prices are
very firm in all the markets. Wines from