Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1887 — THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

A Washington dispatch says that the United States Treasurer has prepared a statement in regard to the circulating medium which shows that the total circulation—coin and currency— May 21, 1887, was $1,297,256,563, being a net increase of $58,566,545 as compared with the circulation May 31, 1886. The increase by items was as follows: Gold coin, $16,879,944; standard silver dollars, $2,463,364; subsidiary silver, $2,346,842; gold certificates, $10,843,952; silver certificates, $49,956,199; United

States notes, $4,521,722; total, $87,009,043. This amount wm reduced to $58,566,545 by a decrease of $28,442,498 in the circulation of national bank notes. The principal portion of the increase, nearly $34,000,000, was in paper currency and coin of denominations of S2O and under. For the purpose of carrying out the act of Congress making an annual appropriation to provide arms and equipments for the militia, the following regulations have been issued by the War Department: The Adjutant General of the army shall annually, on or before July lof each year, report to the War Department the number of regularly enlisted, organized, and uniformed active militia in each State and Territory, and this report will be tne basis of the action to be taken for the ensuing year. Requisitions for any or all of the public property provided for in this act will be made by the Governor of the several States and Territories on the War Department. The 5400,000 appropriated in the act will be distributed as follows:

Alabama.s9,2l6' Arkansas6,4sll California 7,373 C010rad02,764 Connecticuts,s29l Delaware 2,764 Florida3,6B6 Georgiall,os9 111in0i520,276 Indianal3,B24, 10wa11,9811 Kansas 8,294' Kentuckyll,9Bl Louisiana 7.373 Maine 5,529 Maryland 7,373 Massachusetts... .12,903 Michiganll,9Bl Minnesota 6,451 Mississippi 8,2.44 Missouril4,746 Nebraska 468 Nevada 2,764! New Hampshire.. 3,686 i

(New Jerseysß,294 New Y0rk33,179 North Carolina... 10,138 0hi0.21,198 lOregon 2,764 Pennsylvania.... .27,649 Rhode 151and3,686 South Carolina... 8,294 .Tennesseell,os9 .Texasll,9Bl Vermont"... 3,686 'Virginiall,os9 West Virginia.... 5,529 .Wisconsinlo,l3B Alaska 2,764 Arizona 2,764 'Dakota 2,764 Idaho 2,764 New Mexico 2,764 Montana 2,764 (Utah 2,764 .Washington 2,764 IWyoming2,764 |Dist. of Columbia. 5,529

During the last fiscal year the customs collections upon imports from Canada aggregated $8,214,438.