The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-14
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Treasury Department has decid-
cd that mutilatod silver coins are only worth
the price of the bullion they contain, and they
shall be paid for at the mints at the rate pre-
vaiiing for silver on the day they are pre-
scented.
Tuesday 1876 mail-pouches filed with
intcrDal-revenue stamps were sent out from
tho Internal Revenue Bureau at Washington.
The shipment was the largest ever known in
the history Of the bureau. There were in the
pouches 100000 stamps, whose face value
was So, $4,000.
The demand upon the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau for tobacco stamps is unprecodent-
cd, and induces the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue to think either that large traders are
preparing a corner in tobacco OF that dealers
generally, in view of the short crop, anticipate
a very considerable rise in that article, and wish
to purchase it now to hold for the increase in
price.
President Arthur continues to occupy
the residence of Senator Jones. 1t is said
that, after the extra session adjourns, he will
remove to and reside at the Soldiers Home ull-
til the White House repairs are completed.
Cabinet meetings will hereafter be
held on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The President has appointed Calvin
G. Walker Deputy Commissioner of Pensions.
After an investigation covering sever
al weeks, Pension Commissioner Dudley has
discovered that about thirty employees of his
Office have been concerned in frauds which will
reach into the millions
Senator Jones has remarked to init
mate friends that Wall street spectators need
not look to the treasury to relieve the money
market. Secretary Window informed the bank
ers of Boston that he would not deviate from
his programme in purchasing bonds.
Justice Miller has appointed an Elk
ecutive Committee, with Gen. W. 7. Sherman
| as Chairman, for the establishment in Wash
ington of "a National and International Garfield
Memorial Hospital to the erection of which he
asks popular subscriptions in any sums from
not only the people Of the United States but
from the world at large.
A Washington dispatch says that
Guiteau's counsel, George Scoville, carried to
the assassin's cell sensation. He left with
him some papers, including some Chicago files,
which were the first papers that GIIiteau has
seen since he assassinated the President
Some of these papers spoke very freely of
Guiteaus crime, and of the necessity of hang
ing him as speedily as possible. He is report
ed to have been so excited by reading these
papers that he has been thrown into high
fever, which still continues
The pastors of the various Protestant
churches at Washington called on President
Arthur and presented him with an address.
President Arthur suitably responded. and con-
versed with the individual members of the DEL
egation.
A Washington correspondent says that
President Arthur has become to the politicians
| SpeaSing of an interview with him the other
day, a prominent political leader said; "vou
can't get word out of him. He is a compete
mystery"
The Grand Jury of the District of Co.
lumbia appeared in the Criminal Court room
at Washington, on the Sth inst, and presented
the Indictment against Guiteau. It embraces
eleven counts, and is drawn with great minute
ness. They describe the shooting as having
been done at the Baltimore and Potomac depot
in Washington, of malice aforethought, with a
pistol, inficting a mortal wound, from the
effects of which the President died.
President Arthur has appointed O. P.
Clarke First Deputy Commissioner of Pensions.
Guiteau's counsel found no lawyer in
New York willing undertake the defense with.
out large retainer, and witnesses as to char.
acter refused to go to Washington to testify
Richard T. Merrick, of Washington, declined
an engagement as counsel because of the pres
sure of business, but added that he would in
no event defend the assassin.