Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1879 — FEDERAL FINANCE. [ARTICLE]

FEDERAL FINANCE.

PUBLIC-DEBT STATEMENT. Following is the regular monthly debt statement, issued by the United States treasury on the Ist inst.: % Six per cent, bonds... .#233,681,860 Five per cent, bonds .. 608,440,350 Four and half per cent. bonds 250,000,000 Four per cent, bonds.. 736 348,000 liotundinK ceriificates. 4,306 500 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds.. #1.796,917,000 Matnred debt $ 41,140,910 Legal-tenders $316,742,441 Certificates of deposit. 35,175,000 fractional .currency.... 16,762,064 Gold and silver certificates 18,410,550 Total Without Interest 416,090,056 Total debt $2,254,147,966 Unclaimed Pacific railroad Interest .. 7,927 Total interest - 19,311,466 Cash in treasury rcTT 243,696 228 Debt less cash In treasury Sept. 1. $2,029,766,204 Decrease during August 3,527,395 Increase since June 30 2,558,948 CURRENT LIABILITIES. Interest due and unpaid $ 4,693,522 Debt on which interest has ceased.... 41,140,910 Interest thereon 1,836,567 Gold aud silver certificates 18,410,660 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 36,175.000 Cash balance available Sept. 1, 1879.. 142,439,678 Total $ 243,696,228 AVAILABLE ASSETS. Cash in treasury $ 243,696,228 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad Companies, interest payable in lawful money: Principal outstanding.. $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 646,235 Interest paid by the United States.... 43,712 450 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 12,710,188 Balance of interestpaidby the United States 81,002,261 SILVER CIRCULATION. During August the silver payments from the United States treasury and United States mints amounted to $1,805,000, exclusive of the amount returned for silver certificates. The aggregate weight of the coin thue distributed is fifty-six tons. BOND CONVERSIONS. Up to Sept 1 the receipts of refunding certificates for conversion into 4-per-cent, bonds aggregated #35,7(4;,000. The total issues of the 4-per-cent, loan by the Treasury Department amounted to $740,795,300, leaving $726,600 not yet disposed of. SILVER DOLLARS. The number of standard silver dollars coined during August was 2,787,050; number coined up to Sept. 1, 40,237,050/