Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1880 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Treasury Department estimates that about *4,000,000 of foroigngold willarrivo at New York each week until the Ist of November. Tho Treasury Department has directed that *20.000,000 in gold coin in the New York subtreasnry be placed to the credit of the buperintendent of the Assay Office in that city, to pay for foreign bullion as it arrives. A Washington telegram says: “ The census returns as they come in are being carefully examined at the census office in order to detect fraud or incompleteness. Particular attention is being paid to returns from those States where it is alleged that fraud has been committed and a wholesale inflation of population made. All returns arc, however, subjected to tho closest scrutiny. While some apparent incongruities and irregularities have been discovered in returns from South Carolina, nothing that positively shows fraud has been brought to light. If there has been fraud it will be detected and remedied. Gen. Walker says that nothing upon which official action could he taken has yet been discovered. When it is discovered action will be taken promptly.”

Since the passage of ‘the Silver bill there lias been coined to date *63,189,750 in standard silver dollars. Of this amount, *19,886.443 is outstanding in circulation. The balance, *48,303,307, is in the treasury vaults. During the month of August there were paid out from the mints *1,285,483 in standard silver dollars, against *314,826 in July. The regular monthly public-debt statement, issued on tho Ist inst., is as follows: Six per cent bonds $ 226,440,150 Five per cents ' 480,410,450 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four per cents 738,241,350 Refunding certificates 1,106,450 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,713,198,400 Matured debt $ 6.128,035 Legal tenders.., 346,741,896 Certificates of deposit... 11,300,000 Fractional currency 7,181,995 Gold and silver certificates 20,835,940 Total without interest. • 386,059,831 Total debt $2,105,386,266 Total interest 15,951,139 Cash in treasury 196,668,332 Debt less oash in treasury $1,924,569,074 Decrease during August. 12,027,167 Decrease since June 30 17,603,221 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 2,964,803 Debt on which interest has ceased 6,128,035 Interest tlioroon 771,413 Gold and silver certificates 20,835,940 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 11,300,000 Cash balance available 154,668,141 Total $ 196,668,332 Available assets— Cash in treasury $ 196,668,332 \ = Bonds issued to Pacific i -•oN'V’ companies, interest payable qd mouey, principal outstandl -pV $ 64,623,512 Interest’accrued and I’Oj-x said 646,235 Interest paid by Unite, 47,589,861 Interest repaid by coi e V’lf.es — Interest repaid by jrtation of mails By cash payments of 5 per cent, of net eamingH 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 33,291,329 It is estimated that four years will be necessary to complete the full compilation of tho census. This, of course, does not refer to population, but to tho statistics of trade, industry, mechanics and special subjects. This estimate is evidently large, but the persons having these special subjects in charge do not expect to be ablo to complete their work for the printer in less than a year from this time. Washington dispatches state that Gen. Walker’s investigation of the manner of taking the census in South Carolina has convinced him that wholesale frauds have been perpetrated. The evidence is sufficiently conclusive to warrant prosecutions under the law