Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1870, Page 1

_— ————— ‘THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sunday cXNeepted, At The Star Buildings, Cerner Pennsylvania ay. and Lith st, BY TH EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY. porsatsrer ass x served Dy corrlers to thelr eB- ® 7 earl ned District at Pex Ox8Ta PaR WHPE cr Forty Fock Cexts Pea MONTH. Copies Sp Fin Morths, $3.00 - Year, ~ecgcie™ y om the office longer t \. Se WEEAEY STAM published on Friday £9 36-—N2. 5,528. worning—$1 50 a year. so — _EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. ET AMUSEMENTS. A TIONAL THEATE: TRUESDAY EVENING POSITIVELY LAs NiIGaT, of the Dixingaished Artiste ua axp MHS BARNEY WILPIAMS, tn the creat Sensational © sina THE EMERALD RUSQ, FRIDAY —ReveGt of Mr. and Mre. Williams. ONGS WiLLIA@S MATINEE BATUBD* ¥ AFTERGUN, AT 2 0 OLOC THE EMERALD B ALL'S UPERA HOUSE. THE SUCCESS OF THE SEASON’ Last thro: nights of fae fascinating MES JAMES A. 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FOUR LECTURES ON LIGHT. ev ROF MENRY HORTON, DOV. 5OAND DEC. 2,7, ANDO These I cov BSE Sant, instrm yuca se panied by Bingle ticket. $0 cents: admitting a cont anc Beente: course tiekets for tne winter, matefor -sle at Bollantynes. Lectures ce atSockek SclEST: Dr. BE. P. HOW Wonders 6! the Wicr THURSDAY EY ENN the finest jnsira vbects fn th micographs tnken } Arwy Medica! 1 wumber ‘The el magnitic tere Aiimi-sion f : Tickets for sale at Uallan Feet, Le: ture ty commenc clock nome Mt MUSEMENTS .)i WINTER BVENINGS. for€ hes. Be Christian Association ties. é 2. with the ver #0 paintings to se! at Views. Ascent the.or Drankard Career, Fairy T. etc. Torin renevnaii«,” Mace Lan Dissolving Views. he HI on’ parties It WILLIAMS. 17 Pinna Woe Ww. n033m" ri *KAND COURSE 0 : Given under the CALVARY & WM. H. MILBURE Mar Saw in BENS ect Clavairy Yeon A Journey to the Conntry of the Dwarte. 4 K. MUBDOCH Sevect Bew Celebrated Au thers. January I = STEPHEN MASSETT. 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Be POR MORNING GLORIES AND o1 Ss, THE BEST BATE -ROENING STOVE EOE cana: 28 THEMAURED, ©. REISSNES S CGEAP STOVE sTOUE, Pose TAT 7h street nt of Role agent fo 9 hd WILLIAM PENN MONITOR CORAL COOK STOVES are the best in the market he had at low Prices at EBL, TAUMAS © OO. o3i-im* Tth atreet. NOE FAELOB COOK, PABLUK LIGHT, and other FIRST-CLASS STOVE: Sor sal ihe iow pete ai sedeiciae: EBEBLY. THOMAS & COS, oa *PBe Waneex BOUBLE © RANGER, with or without Shakiug, Beck —2 (PRE CHALLENGE with Syphon F! BASE BCENER, 5B_F. SIMPSON, Mtewart Sto Agency | ok 1005 Pen T. DW. CLABK _ 7 B.Ckoss, Ja T. EDW. CLARK « Co, DMALERS (6 LUMBER, WOOD +x» ONAL. DOUBS, 848H, BLIND. MOULDINGS, Bc. ke WEABF. DEPOT, and PLANING MILL, foot of 1D street eact, near Us. Navy Yard. BRANCH YARD, Virginia avcoue aud Ith streot cast nodtJani LBD S — Imported CANARY BE MOCBISG BIMDS MOCKI IRD OAGES. between Loud M streets source to-day were many, and t North Germany. The articles have been in- formally agreed upon by the Postmaster Gener- a} Creaswell aud Mr. Catacacy. granted, the entire amount payable and transportation, has been submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Attorney Gen- eral. Pending the decision of that question, payments delayed a this THE PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. 87,175,560 90 Farther Decrease. The statement of the public debt irsued {om the Treasury Department to-day shows tota. 98 Tf" ve sin loa, $2157 9 0 Str 793.943.752.100 96 ia Lavefict Meany. wt. 250500008 (9 1s 080 680 ‘The statement of bonds cad Company, interest payable in shows totals as follows :-—Amuunt on! MALS. Ipteresi acorn not ste 0.88. Interest pa the eS, S8855,45.49. Interest repaid by orm United St ns nierest pra tation ixvenvar, Revence.—The receipts from this ‘Tax Presipent bas completed his message and copies are now being made to be iurnished tw the pres- on Monday. ORD ASSISTANT ENe@rNger James W WAN has heen detached trom the Nex h wavy yard and ordered to the Ga fiw ACTING ConmisstoxER oF PATEN:S is to-day engaged im hearing the case of Ww Heston vs. G. W. N. Yost for an interference in apatent a mowing machine. ATTORNEY GENERAL AKERYAN tu-dey pointed A. J. Falls, formerly disbursing clork, to the position of Chief Clerk of the Department ot Justice, vice M. F. Pleasants, resigned uetT™ @ Nricon, the Supreme © i was in New York ye: to Washington. tle has ex rom his recent illness, S.STRAURE DELAWARE, adron, will be f p ai New York as soun a SEN. rhenmatic pal 2 MoRTON still suffers much from his home iu Indiana, ted reise, Wut he is making prepara 10 Washington this week retor Secretary Ropgsoy left here last even az ror New York, to be present at the laying of th corner stone of the Seamen's Exchanze bu ng, to be erected oppo-ite the Fifth Avenv- Hote , is that city. He will re worrew. PeReowAL.—GeneraiJ.€. Fremort the house of Colonel ©. A. Pitcher, avenur, for the winter. It ir the hoi ev enpied by W. F. Chandler, Esq. Ames ard w./e (ue Miss Blanch rived in toma. taken Vermont THe SEeRRTARY OF Wak has i eralcrder directing that nereatt ned a gen who shall lose through carelessne: of, @ breech-loading musket of tne Sharp o: Kemington patter (Cexprar Ronear Wi LIAMS, ler orders to report to General Pope for duty the irontier, emphatically denies tl at he has contem: He will shorily Te here tor Fert Leavenworth to report Jor d R CENERAL CRESSWELL has snb- Minister a draft ot articles of a postal conveniion between the United States and Kussia, for conveying the maiis via Bremen or Hamburg and North Ger- ot England, Belgium, and PAYMENTS TOSeusipizep Katt Ro ps WitR- dzLD.—The question whether the ‘Trezeury De- partment can reserve for interest due from the s to which subsidies of bonds have been iF mails these railroads for such services are ¢ Treasury. ‘THE COLORED CONGRESSMAN'® SBar Tora ConTESTED.—Senator Sawyer (Rep.) of Souta Carolina, has seut to each Senator and Kepre- in Congress @ pamphlet. in which be assails the board of State Canvassers for award. ing the certificate ef election to a seat in the Uunted State House of Representatives to K. C. De Large colored.) Mr. Sawyer contends that the decision of the Board was entirely unfai and that Mr. C. C. Bowen (white,) was entitled to the seat. ‘Tee HEALTH OF THE CH JvsTics.—The latest autho: ity in regard to the bealth of Chier dustice Chace is Mr. Parsons, Marshal of the Supreme Court, who has just returned from Narragansett. He says Mr. Chase is slowly but apparently surely recovering his strength. The pai ‘bis mind and be is able to walk, ride aud write a8 usual, bot he is suffering from great loss of strength and ysis bas not in any manner a: ted is physician bas torvidden any st- tempt op his part to resume Ais dnties on the ber eh for the present, and prescribed total rest snd relaxation frem ali laber. CAs’? Paver. WENT T CAN Dacrarwa Die Divi- ‘The street railroad company, though too poor to pave their tracks, were abie, at their taccting here the other day, to declare @ diri- cord of ten per cons.’ at this meeting the prop- ‘on Was made to pave their portion of the Avewue according to the act of Congress, but position Was quietly ignored, and the direclors proceeded to the more congesial werk f dec'aring a dividend—it being imtimated to my Mr. Henry Hart, of Chatham street, New Vork, viee president of the road, that if they did pot deciare a dividend they would be turned out by the New York stockholders. Messrs. Henry Mart, Syivanus Biker, M. @. Lane, James McKewna,—— Mitchell, foreign dvectors, and Mesrs, Orme and Vanderwer- hen, of this city, were present. BF Manmng (democrat, beats J. W. Holden for the unexpired term in the Forty.tirst Con~ gress from the Malegh (\. C.) distsiot, by 30 ma_ority. a —————__ Che tity dollars be charged against the pay of any enlisted man or dispose 7. $3. A., whose #ix mouths’ leave has just expired, and who is WASHINGTON, D. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER If, 1870. | THE “REVENUE REFORM” MOV e@yENT IN THE WEST. ITS MEANING. rs"—WO'st Senator Wil- Klason says abov¢ the Matter_fhe a imtho Stouse_The Ways id Meaus Com mittee Biaine, Ke'- fey ieee, Kogeu.Garie Brooks. esbam f ‘arnswerth—The Democrats ared the Revenue Reform- ers—Phe next Presidential m—Gran)is Strong and woald be Invincible aya Revenue Reformer— Ex Secretary Cox “a Weak Man’ Aboat Curl ‘Se Rights Man of If there Is one subject mora than another, connected with the present politics! sitaation, about which both the Administration and the people of the East desire information, it ia the Portentous movement which, commencing in the great Northwest, has alrcady found lodg- ment in Missouri, ard threatens to envelop the entire agricultural interest of the country. 1; has been called a ba zaboo, has been denounced as a child's fright, and has been hooted at as a tangent flight or the “otf year’ in politic bears the high-soundin though not em, title of It REVENUE REFORM.” it drags down old political barriers, erects Rew political organizations, and changes the Political aspect of the entire States. It sup- plants, in the minds of the people, the ques- tions which, during the war, made the South a unit against the North, and the North a unit @gainst the South. It is, im brief, the question ot taxation—a direct appeal tothe pockets of the taxpayers—pnd in its notable revolutionary Dower it has fraternized even the bitter border men of Missouri, who, Unionists, have for years maintained sanguinary opposition to each other, even within the sa- ¢red sactuary of the church. ‘Yo be still more b.ief, it is simply OBITION TO PENNSYLVANIA. 'n one of the large tewns of Olmstead county, Minn., during the recent canvass in that State & prominent republican arose to address a ineeting Composed entirely of voiers of his own party. In fact, the town bad up to that tim been unanimously republican. ‘The speaker proceeded after the usual manner to claim for bis party the credit of having saved the ment during the war, and to give Its 5 A sturdy farmer arose with an interruption which, though briet in words, sounded the tocsin of political disintegration. ‘ Tell us about the tariff,” he said. The speaker replied that he did not propo<c to discuss that question jast then, that he intends 4 fo contine himself to subjects regarding which he was better posted, and attempted to continue bis speech. Another farmer interrupted him as follows :-— “ We are all rcpublicans here. We know a!l you can tel! us about the republican part you can't tell us something about the taritl, you bad better yo home and send some one to us who can.” This incident is but one among mau could be cited as an indicat winds of the towards future di history is ¢ ment that thi a democrat majority, or, rather, a revenue " preseut member from that district, ATOR NORTON 8. WILKINS Jthe county two years ago, running on go platiorm, by nearly tiiteen i change of sentiment, it will be admitted, is almost miraculous, and it was net confined to that nla: locality. The entire State telt its intiuence, and to-day Minnesota stands in the front rank asa EEVENUE RE STATE. ‘The immediate result of this tactling more ment will be developed in the organization ot the next House of Representatives. The emi reform majority. As tie town went, so county. 1 bent gentleman reterred to above, is of ihe Opinion that the reformers, having the balance ot power between the democratsand the protection- ist, Cam control the erganization, provided the former are willing to support a revenue reform republican. There are few men in public lite at present, who are capable of more shrewd than he. ‘he straggle after ali” ue prop hee said to Us a few day’s since, “will be over THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTER, At present there are six protectionists on it apr views on the tariff, and for the purpose o keep ing our tariff rates as near the New England ‘on it, that unless idea as porsible. You may rel, Le can accommodate us by giving us a majority on the committee, le can ot be re-elected. -No man who is pledged to revenue reform as we were in Minnesota, and as my successor is, can ever vote tor any one who is not willing to ac- hnowledge the power of this new movement.’ “« Weill,” we avked, if they don’t take Blaine vtainly cannot take €-ent sews,” was the reply ine. ey will probably take up some eon, of Towa, ar 1 min; LOGAN WON'T bo, becal he is too unpopular with the democrats. That isthe main, in fact the only objecti biw. ARFIELD If A GOOD MAN, intact he isa prolable man; but there are those eho would object tohim on account of the instability of his district. There are inftaences among his constituents to which he is awen ble that might make him unsafe. FARNSWORTH If ANOTHER Probable man. He was conservative enough the reconstruction afair not to be exceeding obnexious to the democrats—he followed 1: aS + you know—ani be is certainly sound on reverue returm. | think, however, that some ew man will come up; some unexpected candi date. Whoever he is, he must be thoroughly and uncompromising!y eppo:-4 to protection.” “Perhaps the democrats will have a cand date,” wesuggested. “Is it Dea ible that reve- reform republicats would, for the purpo~e ‘ofeating protection, vote tor x democra ‘That ix a difficult question to answer,” he replied. “In the BREAKING Ur OF PARTIES it ts hard to tell what will be done. It isn’t probable that they will be called on to vote fer a democrat; but, piedged as they are in oppo- sition to protection, they could as conscientious- ly vote tor Jim Brooks as for Judge Kelley. No, the democrats will doubtless meet the re- formers haif way, and may demand a larger representation on ali the committees; but they would be foolish if they compelled the latter to run a candidate who would receive only afew votes, and ensure the election of a high tariff di they do make such a demand it may be conceded to them, for, as I said betore, the Ways and Means Committee is the only one of importance, and the reformers axe Fn to carry that as the first step ards the accomplishment or the pledges they have made to their constituents. Ali things considered. 1 don’t think they could or will vote for ® democrat under any circum- stances; but their opposition to high tari’ is as esrnest now as their opposition to democracy bus been in the past.” “WHAT IS REVENUB REFORM?” we asked. “It issimply benefitting the mass of our peo- ple by relieving them from taxation and at the same time giving them the necessities of life, at cheap rates, We have, for instance, sixteen or try. while the rest of the people aze pure con- sumers—i.¢. they don’t produce anything—they are the middle men of commerce, who compose the population of our great cities. Now, Judge Kelley Log iting peerage bre gew nod feet never gets to bis feet wi out fection to the laboring mens “Who ate they? ‘Phe reventeen millious of agriculturists, or the six millions of mannfacturers? Both’ are borny-handed; but the former is, after all, the laborer. He rises in the from sun the until sundown, and ont — ae does his mechanic works e! or sy. Who, then, is the lauarers take vwiew—the most ee nemter raat Etamurasrurcrestand? Certainly hey ate'ke Mapufacturere ? are very small minority. Foening Star. THE WAR IN EUROPE. DESPERATE CONDITION OF PRANCE. tm WAR DRAWING TO A CLOsr, PALLADINE A PRISONER, THE FARMERS HAVE COMMENCED to understand this, and they are consequently commencing to assert their rights as the ma- jority. They know that iron enters into the composition of every implement on their farms, that they pay tribute to Pennsylvania whenever they buy a hoe, and that they cannot cut down atree without aiding manutacturing lies to build higher and higher the wal! keep them away from cleap markets. They POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT REPORT OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL. The Workings and Growth of the Depart- ment— Recommendations as to the Frank- ing Privilege, the Use of Postal Cards, &c. Postmaster Generai Cresswell, in bis annual ‘The ordinary revenues of this department for the fiscal year ended Jane 0.65, and the expenditures For the year euded 0. 1869, the ordinary revenues were $18,~ and the expenditures, $23,023 151.50. ‘The increase of revenue for the year 1 the year 1869 was si, y and the increase ot expenditures, 1.32 per cent., showing a nei increas {f, im addition to the ordinary » the department be credited with 370,000, appropriated for tree matter and the Amounts drawn and expended for enbsidies to Steamship lines, it will appear that the dea ciency provided out of the general treasary for is 52,514,118.05, as ag 4 tor the year 1:09. THE ESTIMATED EX!" he year ending June 30, e revenues estin over last year, $: tree matters FIVE TO SEVEN DOLLARS A DAY for harvest hands, when wheat is only seventy- five centsa bushel, and they trace this condi- tion of aifaire to the absorbtion of labor by They commence to see that pay a direct tax DOLLAR GOES INTO TRE but that the tariff’, or rather a high tariff, takes dollars irom them tor every one that geis inte Uncie Sam’s vauite. that the manufacturers are valuable to th farmers as consumers. They form buta smal! portion of thatelass. Why, one or two couat.es in Minnesota alone can raise enough whe .t in oue year to supply every cotton operative in the United States wich bread for anequal length of time and then probably have some torpare. No. sir, the middle-men of commerce, the people of the trades, carpenters. and outnumber the much as the agriculturists do. They are equally interested with the agriculturists in cheap prices, so that you may count the whole coun try except in localities where manutacturiny influences predominate, as joined with the 1510, were S19 of all kinds, $25 Tt is nonsense to say ted at ld per cent. in 313; standing appropria nufacturers alm ates do not inelnde the following s appropriations in the nature of subsidi steamship service between San + tween the United States a: for like service between S: Sandwich islands, $7 “Please explain,” said we, ‘how only ONE DOLLAR ovr « collected by tarifl from the farmer goes into the ‘There were in the service of the department 225 contrac ors tor the ‘Ur mail routes in oper Gl, aggregating i transportatio wual cost, $10,5°14 x the compensation of railway post oliiee local agents, mail messen transportation ation there were “ie miles; in the mules, and in “Oh, that’s simple enough,” just this way, suppose you buy nive at. cles of home mannfacture, and one of foreign. and thatis the raiio of irou manutactures 1 be leye, you pay for the home-made article ju-t the same toat you pay for the foreign one, but the latter, coming through the Custom Hou: pays duty which goes into the Treasury, while you pay the duty on the former to the manufac- he answered clerks, route agent mail route messengere and by. n charge of re zistered package the aggregate ai . ‘Phere was an imerea: year in length of routes of transportation, “That's very plain, sir,’ seem to be dri ting towards SUNSET COX'S FREE TRADE DOCTRINES.” “ Free trade,” he replied, “is an experiment which no man of sense would ventare. haps Sam. Cox is nearer a tree trade man in the of the term than any other man iu vat if he was called upon to draw up @tarif bill for the democratic party, a bil! on which that party was to live or die, he wouldu’t dare to make it purely tree trade. there is a wi de and high tari, and in that difterence will find the happy medium of revenue taritt You will remember that I have voted with Alli- son all the way through on his propositions tor & purely reverue tarif?, and 1 could have carried my district on it, because the people hnow and we in that respect. nly must have revenue from some +, the total increase im cost was READIUSTMENT OF PAY ON RAILROAD ROUTES After a caretul consideration of the sub; «l that the compensation tixed by law is not a fair retain for the important service. rendered by ratiroad compant repeat my recommendation that a readjustmen of their pay be made by law, and that, at €, they be reuired to enter into con tract with the department a* @ comlition pri cedent to drawing any increase of compensa , and heuce | te ditference tables herewith submitted make a tavorable exbibit as to the average speed a With which the mails have been conveyed over etween New York San Francisco, during the vear endi With the month of September, 1+ New York and New Orleans, the double da din March, 156 tioned in the last annual report, li tinued durmg the year ending with the mont ot September jast, one of d over the Southweste ton, District of Columbia; Lynch bw Virginia, and Knoxville, Tennessee: other over the W. 7 miles long: 1, “we must keep the wnust pay Our army and course we must raise The revenue tariit service estab’ public credit tnviolabl a bavy pensions, and of money to do it with. probably the most feasible, if it acceptable, atter all. THR DEMOCRATS DARE NE free trade as a finality. J remember tha’ , during a tariff discussion, Jim Brooks « ii in very comprehensive term: but he afterwards admitted that a duty of thi.- ty-three and a third per cent. was no more than y idea is that thirty-tive per cent. is sufficient protection for our home mau- ufactures, and that it is also enough tor revenue. Let us keep up the tax on whisky and obacco clittom, and we will get i eT Toute, via Cincinnat’ Kentucky, and Hum oldt see. Compared with the showmg tor the period trom March to September. sive, in the last annaal report, returns make the average time i western route to be greater hours 11 minutes going soutl minutes going north; aud by the West ban it was then by © hours noanced the ta this revenue reform business on be greater pr inte ti he replied. ‘has the atiection of the They have conidence in him, and he vill be a strong mw sn ander but es a revenue resormer bi y twe thinds of the on the Western roate, with the a: ge of a departure Lehind time sy circumstances would be invin: uede ® good record thus far, has trmnly vet: reduced the debt, an TRE RATLWAY icod wall of the mas= + HOW ABOUT SECEETARY Cc tporsib'e rapidity, by asorting a them while in wot in local distributing p nas been found, in pi ellthat bas been cl tired to’ s been cleariy demon “Cox is a weak man,” he answered. ngest, and outside of Obio that lit flurry in the Interior Department, didn’t ar- It wouldn't aflect t Sta‘e, One way or the other. ¢ administration gained ratier vban lost by that because, asf told you, the people believe eral Grant, and they think that he did right in getting Cox out.”’ “HOW AnOUT SCRURZ,” was our next inquiry. “ Is he a disorganize! “Well, he hes that reputation,” was the and perhays he deserves it. ber riding a whole day with bim in a buggy, when we were stumping my State together in 18%. We spent a good Tated by the test much attention. aid tor the trans the mails to Great Britain, and continent of Evrope, was * 5 slips employed receiving the sea postage on thie mails conveyed as full compensation ‘The cost of the Fervice during was as iollows ‘ountries on the sted by Mr. Bisine, in accord with his transatlantic m: lrespectiully renew the recommendation made in my last report for ap increase of mail trom monthly to semi-monthly trips on the mx steamship route from San Franc: and China. ‘The recommendations made in my yearre!otive to the neces: jou to encourage the re~ ment of American lines o! transatlantic steam for the transportation of cur mails to Europe are reepecttally renewe jons with foreign ¢o: been made during the ye bave been redvced po: tage—trom tw. cents with Great Britain, the Netherlands, italy um, Switzerland, and the North Germar ortion of the time in etween Webster and le astonished me then by his evide: inclination towards the State's rights doctr: since learned that many hese red republicans are given to licen~ which they mistake for liberty. Their idea oi independence is different from ours, and docs not embrace that respect for the ancient au- thority of common law that ours does.” * Nevertheless the Ge. mans of the Northwest are generally republicans,” we suggested. “: Certainly they are,” he continued, “ and it addition to them we have another foreign ele- party of the Nortuwest, THE NORWEGIANS, who habilitate themselves more readily as cit zens than even the Ge.mans. They are reve- nue reform republicans too, or would be if the party would rominate men in whom they have contidence. They are :rngal, honest, steady- gving people, who pay their taxes prompily; but who would very naturally prefer to pay as little “Did the demo the late election‘ ine with his m Brooks, as he is, would be a acceptable as some legisiat . Lwelve posta: 1 to ment in the republic: ‘The report of the Appointment Ortice show= blished during Appointments mare dur: the number of year to be 25 the year, =fl0. PRER DELVE: The iree delivery system ba- been in opera tion during the year in tifty-o: POSTAL FONFY-ONnDER The numver of money-order ofices ‘The number ot Operation is 267 d during the year was 1, oney Orders issii of which the eggregate ¥ , an increase during the year ; the amount of In my last annual report additional legislation Was recommended to authorize the extension of the money-order system to the stations or sub poet ofticés in the large cities. gestion that the law relating to the money-order system ve so far moditied as to permit the post- muster of any city which the ostmaster Geo- eral may designate to issue and e stations or sub-oftic: manner = boo —— i oy 3 money-order system for the exchange of posta! orders between the United States and Swizer land was put into operation September 1, isu. Negot re now in progress jor the es- tablishment of an international exchauge ‘al orders between the United States and the mot Great Britain and Ireland. a system of that kind will scon be inaugurated, and that it will prove high)y to the people of both countries. GROWTH OF THE POSTAL SYSTEM. pansion of the postal eyetem snserl e a post as str; poe wiasion ane’ ith. weal illustrations of this kind it refers to the first year of President Wash- inistration, the number of letters transmitted in the mails did not probally ex- cced 300,000, and the annual transportatio: ture any of them i ed. “The late election,” he replied, “was, to jon of preference between uestion of principles, tor great extent, men, rather than a the two platforms were identical. rot a single point of material difference be- One was democratic and the © er republican revenue reform.”” And w.th this the interview ended. AND COMMERCIAL. The New York market continues to work easily to borrowers on call with tour to six per cent. asthe range of rates on call loans, five being the common rate. Prime commercial aper is .n moderate sup lor <he same is repo brokers. Chcice acceptances pars at 6 a7 per cent. while the Goub!e names, short date, iss per cent ean eet Government Securities. Jay Cooke & Oo. furnish the ma J renew the sug- An internationa)! ly and a good demand among the note following to-day : Buy’ 8-eInasy ws, 9 6 y °7, of the United the first year of present administration number of lei tere carried in the mails could not have been Jess than 690,060,000, Bautinons.. 1.—Cotton Pater Pe My Lard quiet at 14. as w YORE, Dec. 1. joncy. 408 BS Peete Sea — +22e+——__— - tailed for ew York sosteray tothe Vile ao Pai ‘A movement ison in Arizona to “an- bf e orthern Pot. I ot the whole of the Mexican State of ARMY OF THE LOIRE STILL RETREATING ‘PWO CENTS. The Proposed Conference on the Eastern Question. left but a resort to demonstration by figures. As has been already stated, the deficiency tor the last year bas been reduced to $2,814,1i¢.98. Accurate accounts of the costof free matter .F.VRIETS" 2. BWGLvt dispatched through the mails were ordered to be kept by all pontmasters, for the six months — beginning Ist January, and ending woth Jane aa last, and thereturne which ave been received | A © ABINIST CRISIS. are now being arranged am: alated for sub- mission to Congress. Enough is known to en- —— able those who are most faniliar with the work to express the opinion that the actual retarns u of the Ministry Imevitabie, will show the aggregate cost of tree er for Ry.ejual to the above-men- = tioned deficiency. My anxiety to make the the year to be Department self-sustaining arises trom astrong “grey 8-4 Ee ——. to reduce, eg2al 3 and make unitorm THE SPEUATE the rates of postage. If letter postage could b * “tee reduced {rom three to two cents, I ain sure that =, ee sees es gente the increased correspondence thereby stimn lated would im a few years compensate for any The feeling i becon ng untversal thronghost temporary loss of revenue, and that many mis- by ad that the French war is rapid'y d takes and vexatious delays would be avoided by .1"1y'q close. The anvanat ‘ho the uniforua rate for all distances which woul ‘"# 1 ® Close. The apparent impomib lity be established. 1 despair, however. of se sting the Frencd « arces.|—The Tel-prays this morning a: curing avy furt ion ot letter postage mies, st is heli w compel the + as long as the tranking privilege shall be per- | 1, nder of Gen. Troche initted to impose upon the Vopartment an ir we ewe remediable teticienc’ THE RUSSIAN QUPSTION It is not intended tointimate that there sould eminent members of the Monistry are he an increase of postage on newspapers. Un 6 t.. ; the cor t ie'the duty 3: posed on | DE the immee Part of its work of beneficence, to ald in the “tile the Russian education and elevation of the people by catry- | adopt & peace ing newspapers as cheaply as possibl LAT: I amof opinion that the present , GER. FALLAEE A FRR too low. Nordo I object tothe tree transyor- * reported that Palladine was tation of newspapers to regular subscribers in wounded but taken pr the counties of their publication, as now author- Ung of a convention and to arrange and ¥ te tussle and Fra ner yesterday ired by law. Their conveyance withou: char 4 BALE OUN Ff ES OUT TO SEs does not interiere with the speedy and reg Lospex, Dec + m—iBy ca transmission of the mails, They are usaally Asociated #}.— balloon, pr ied at the county towns, and alway- y trom Pat-, was seem inte last ever stop within the boundaries of their own cou ties. They are sw evenly muted over the whole country that practically they cause ne imconvenience, or injury. or bat one change that I dee oh channel. it seemed > make a landing on oneot the S lands. A violent east wind prevailed time. and i was carried out to se tthe It was un treatment of newspapers, ai ? Atlantic to those sent to points ontsi WHAT THE PLUSSIANS WILL DEMAND their pull 1 would require the post- OY PAKLS. age on printe ter. in all cases, to be pre teh t a Secneiiin che paid by stamps. The law alowing the postage - _ hewad to be paid in money by subscribers at the ofica @ acceptance of the Prur ot delivery i* a ds theors of post o the ure from the accented “ant conditions of peace by the Paris branch of ce Management, and subjects | the French government will be required befor yartmer t to Leavy ' lation of the city will be received. y bas been directed to the BOOMERS OF SONY RAM, orrespondence,” or ‘post ea: third of the town of Thionvilte w ted by North Germany and by fire during ite bombardment Ly ians Jacilitating letter correspondence, and already extensively used im those cour . va — are made of good stitf paper-of TUE AUMY OF THE LOIRE REPRRAP torm and si Phe t . My atte system of * ruled fer the ins: a © Loire is retreating. te the post office stamp: ' poriuonand sts nambers are unknown, side there is Toum {yr * short jetter or message, which may be printed or written in pencil or A PRENCH VICTORY. ink They require no folding orenvelope. are | Advices have beew received here of a Wi specially adapted tor circulars or short commu- |,” tt mits eal ak. eel bicatlon®, and are furnished to the public at the | setwece the Prem, neder Eset, ane the value of the postage stamp impressed upon | Prussi at Etrepagny, im which the Pro them, which is being one-half’ 1 Grea! ritain half a peuny, | sians were beaten with severe loss. The Pres je established inland letter rate | captured three officers and a namberof cam vivantages claimed by their | and horses, as weil as a quentity of small arm-, ensed celerity and ease of | , NEGO OXS Fé SONFEK business and socal wtercommunication, by die. | THE SEG be ia pensing with much of the ordinary epistolary = a form and appiances, &nd by having always at (he 7. «cs, this morning, has @ @pecial tele band, ready for nse at any moment—in the | Toailles, announcing that the we- street, on @ Sourney, or in places where pen, | in re " a : hicrenve ate progressing. ink, paper, and envelopes are not accessibie or ‘ 5 readliy obiainable tue erentials tor» letter © Bremen sieuros) For many messages where th m is now ch as orders, invit iuirements ot business or social ! CABINET CKISIS EN e cards would be welcomed by the pab! : a bam As A simple, inexpensive, and conve of intercourse. They would create a new po-tal augment the number of correspond ents, and greatly multiply the occasions and nies tor writing. Believing that th ymcnt orth « cards weuld be beneficia’ nt means a get to the public, aud result im x | bled Weakens every hour < I respectially sever hOrky be given by law foi be anne vite remain to the basi¢ or the pr pera! reduction of Gur | schakor = note w m. Not for mar CODIFHAT.ON OF TRY AT Laws: ; of Engiand been i The bill “to revise. consolidate. and x the starutes relating to the Post Office Dep ment,” introduced at the last sessio Jobn F. Farneworth, and refer mittee on the Post Uitice and 2 ical a situar ‘pwhere risihl ses. The Ty t ing of Pariiawen SUSSIANS KETREATING PRoM AMiE . NDON, Dec. 1. it is sand the Prussians have enly evacuated Amicns, retiring on Parin. wovemert is regarded at Lille as very sige cessary to pertect | MECaut & ie believed al operation, it may be secured before | Se. the close of the session. He also refers to the onavoidable accumulation of copper and Coins in The post oMices of the country, an remedy he recommends the enactment of a ng postmasters to transmit their sur- Plus copper and nickel coins. m sumsof $5 and upwards, to the Treasurer of the United States, or tothe nearest assistant treasurer or deposi tory of public moneys, and to take credit there- for for account of the Post Ofice Depa-tment the expense of transmission to Le borne out of the general Treasury | 2o'clock this mormng by four mon in TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. j Zeieigek this mpormang | ; This Afternoon's Dispatches. | Sovaree nares GOING FOR THEIR KING. Frorence, Dec A Span pmittee of ¢ taent C ved at Genoa. A dep tee, with a son boart, tion trom Kowo - — Barglary and Attempted Marder. Telegraphed Exci ly to The Bvening Star. | PRILADELPHIA, Dec. 1.—The house eccapie’ by Pottick and Mary MeUuliough,on Front itreet, below the navy yard, was brokea into at the room and departed, leaving the MoUal~ fough+ «til! be «i. Several arreits were made Associated Press Reports. | 320") ng, and W | identified as one of th } atrerted were seen ix Lerott w Ns zat the Canadian A: the rubbery. a thorities— 1 mericans whe Res w= cued Their Vessel Bronght Into | Destractive Fire and Loss of Life im Court. New rien: Telegraphed NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 1.—The Varieties Th. Boston, Dec. ate ln Hawkins’ store room, Schiller @spatch 10 the Boston Advert fee-houre, «stable were all destroyed CHaKLoTTLiOwN, PRINC by 4 fire this morning, which originated in 1) ov. 36.—The cases of John How property-room beater. The ad her rem Welch and M chact McCarthy, j ever: al ~~ ‘ ee ae s=0m were disposed of in court to-day. They, with i i 3 ps ive others, who cecaped’ whan the rece: | Sremen are seported under fallen wal was reeaptored, rescued the Clara F s Se Friend irom the marshals of the Admi. Railroad Accident. raity Couri, at mid-night on the 2ith. ‘oCGRRERYSIE, N.¥., Dec. 1.—An ateident Three mes on gosrd st the time made no re- t ar Livingston, on the Hadson nver firtance, but helped to get the vessel under | railroad, by which @ jocomotive and foui Way under compulsion. They now allege that } press care were wrecked, and the bunkers cuttide ol the harber they got imto a buat | plattorms of the par-crger cars broken. No ams fame back. Ihe vessel then went to Port | was burt. Theaccident was caused by aswitehe Hood tor supplies. and in going through the gut | man being asleep and leaving the switch placed Of Course met the Plover and wae retaken. The | the wrong way. The train war Tuming tiow ot charges against the parties in the Police Court | the time. were — riot = “1 oe a vessel. oo ‘The charge of riet bad to be withdrawn, and the evidence of assault and rescue was very | 7M Vacamey Seance, emmyivania oe 2 : 3 2 De - Sactaed, decrenese tee ate Sua Wie. | Senter dsmaer Ieee ons ae ae we the Oikaas, an batah and ones | Secumcy come’ Sota aeee or ee preterm ™ “Peremive against | Tie clectivu takes place on the 20h of Decom= alll the partios were committed until the Jan- ver. uary term of the Supreme Coa: t, but were dis- . charged on bail, which was at"given by the | More Tronble im Lae = gel owner in $2,000 for bimecif and $20) foreach of | Warmeouth Coming to Washingtos. the men. The ‘eeling ot the crowd of officers NEW ORLEANS, Dee. 1.—it is asserted that Was in javor of the accused. Thoegh not ap- | Gov. Warmouth visits Wash to effect the proving the act nearly all the yeesel } removal of Postmaster Lowell, Marshal Pack. would getof. Mr. Friend —_ im Very Cot ard, aud Assessor Joubert, who with Lieut. plimentary terms of the ki of the captain | Goy. Dunn, stand in the governor's way. of the Piover. ——> is . & Railroad Keceiver Appoimed. ‘The Damage to tho Catievet 1965 ema! isuiszarcim, IxD., Deo i—si Drum. mond, of this district, bas appointed . Gee, Telegraphed Exclusively to The Bvening Star. 3. H. Chapman, of this city, receiver of the L. = bern apg ea pimmesvewrd NN. A. and C. Railroad. pe the steamer Robert Lowe, now en- A Cau.Canist Sent to the Workhouse. gaged cable latter Crscrxpatl, Dec. 1.—dim Davis, the notorious jeamer was sent out to repair the Atlantic x: Cable of 1-06, and the steamer which is to follow Gat Ganiet, Of ils city, was sentenced te thirty — carry the information that the cable of | 24)* im the to-day by Judge Straub. ihe Lowe's grappling ‘wrong cable.” - New soa eeunbe pocket tak A. Hebdear@ Fire—Proposals fer Bonds. Self through the head with © pistol. ng Telegraphed Exclusively to The Evening Star. ————+ 29 i i fi I i a i : i i [ : ile ini