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United States Treasury' Items.—
The new Secretary of the Treasury
takes possession of the Treasury
when it is in a very fair condition.
There are now on hand about $102,-
000,000 in coin in the vaults, $29,000,
000 of which is gold-bearing certifi
cates and $13,000,000 currency. The
public bebt on the Ist of March, was
$2,545,296,804 28; but since that time
it has decreased about $3,000,000.
No payment of interest will be due
until the first of May, when $30,000,-
000 in coin will be required to pay
the semi'f.nnual instalments of inter'
est on the five*twenty bonds, which
falls due on that day.
AWAKE UPON ALL SUBJECTS: NEUTRAL UPON NONE.
LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1869.
The New Cabinet Appointees.
Tbe following sketches of the last
Cabinet appointments are published:
HAMILTON FISH, SECRETARY OF STATE.
Mr. Fish is a native of Now York
city, his family long having held a
position of wealth a<nd prominence.
He was born in 1809, and in bis youth
was surrounded by all the advanta
ges which wealth can command.—
He was educated at Columbia Col
lege, and having graduated, com
menced the stiffly of law, and in 1830
was admitted to practice in the
SupremeCourtof the State. Though
eminently fitted by education and
natural abilities for tbe successful
prosecution of the legal profession,
he was restrained from accepting a
large practice by tbe cares which a
large inheritance devolved upon him.
