The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1874, Page 3

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. WASHINGTON. Preeautions Against Treasury Bank- ruptcy Proposed by Mr. Dawes. ABOLITION OF THIRTY CUSTOM HOUSES, Exposare of the Faults of the Present Financial Administration. THE SPECIE STRUGGLE IN THE SENATE, WASHINGTON, Feb, 12, 1874, The Empty Struggiec in the Senate Over the Financial Issue—No Prospect of a Meeconciliation of the Factions of the Body. In the Senate the fight went bravely on to-day, 4M continuation of the issue of yesterday, on the amendment of Senator Merrimon providing fora transfer of seventy-five millions of currency from the Eastern banks to those of other sections of the country, As suggested in theae despatches last night, a modification of nis amendment was made by Senator Merrimon, substituting “forty-six” for “seventy-five” millions, which was discussed with various views by Senators Ferry, Logan, Morton, Sherman and Merrimon on one side, and Freling- huysen, Scott and Allison. on the other, and the day’s debate leaves the result or any practical ter- mination of thia tureadbare subject of finance as Temote agever. It does not seem that the dissen- tient views of the Senatorial body can be recon- ciled, and it 1s becoming paintul to observe upon what slight provocation the financial problem, when reierred to, will branch off into every man- ner of abstruse and impracticable considerations, and speeches by the hour are sprung into preten- ous vitality, seeming to be the order of the day. Senator Wright for a moment aroused the appre- hengions of the inflattonists, who thought he waa becoming disaffected as to their policy, when he effered an amendment renewing the original Proposition made by Senator Merrimon, pro- viding for a transfer of $75,000,000 of circu- Jation from the East. The usual animated speeches which have prevailed throughout on this finance question were made. The only new feature ‘Wus that suggested by Senator Allison, who does Rot speak oiten, but is thoughtful, sound and prac- tical, He said that the general idea of redistribu- tion of $75,000,000, as proposed by Mr, Merrimon, if done at al}, should be carried out by taking a gen- eral percentage of the circulation of all existing banks ana transferring it to the West and South, thus removing the monopoly feature of circulation and not disturbing the existing condition. Sena- tor Merrimon’s idea of providing for $46,000,000 to be transferred is intended to restrict the circula- tion to $400,000,000, The debate consumed the whole day, without result, until the Senate went into executive session and adjourned. Mr. Dawew Annual Arraigument of the Administration of the Finances—Bank- ruptcy at the End of the Year Uniess There is Retreychment or Borrowing. Is naving become known that Mr. Dawes was to take the floor this afternoon to deliver his annual philippic against the Treasury Department, which seems to have the misfortune to fall under bis special displeasure, the attendance was large, ana the majority of memvers remained, though he spoke from hali-past two until hal{-past five. Mr Dawes’ speech was very careiully prepared and contains many valuable tabular statements. His effurt was to convince the House that at the pres- ent rate of expenditure and of income the Treasury of the United States would find itself at the end of the present fiscal year with only a sur- plus of $10,000,000 in tne Treasury, aside trom the $44,000,000 reserve. To escape national bankruptcy only three practicable ways were before the House; either it must increase taxation, or negotiate a temporary loan, or retrench expenditurés. He advocated the last alternative as the only one suit- able for the times. He urged the consolidation, if Rot the entire abolition, of some thirty-four cus- toms collection districts; also the consolidation of the navy yards on the Atlantic coast into two, the abolition of pension agencies and the payment of pensions from Washington direct through the Fost Ofice machinery. He made his usual onslaught upon the propriety of appropriat- ing money for the construction 01 public buildings, lor the District of Columbia and for river and har, bor improvements. The speech, whether designed or not, will have the effect to irighten members into the formation of rings, for no member who has a collection district or a navy yard to protect, or in whose district there is 4 public building about being constructed, can afford to meet his constitu- ents with the statement that he sacrificed their local advantages to the general cry for publicecon- omy. The recent action of the House in taking tre question of appropriating for public buildings vir- tually out of the hands of the Committee on Appropriations and referring it to the Committee on Public Buildings, is only one evidence of many that, while members may be willing to save by cutting down the salaries of clerks and other people in whom they have no special in- terest, they will not consent to the sacrifice of their pet local measures. Mr. Dawes, alter show- ing that for the past four years the public expendi- tures have ranged irom $300,000,000 to $270,060,000, endeavored to make his strong point by stating that last year $319,000,000 were expended. This brought Mr. Garfleld upon the floor, who proved from the finance report itself, which Mr. Dawes seems to have strangely overlooked, that the ordi- Mary expenditures, exclusive of payments made upon the public dept, were only $290,000.00, and that the appropriations for the present fiscal year ‘will not exceed those made ior the previous year. The speech was listened to with great atten- tion, and some of the hits caused considerable merriment, but the general impression obtained that it was @ skiliul attempt on the part of the speaker to ride the economic hovby to his own special advantage and at the expense of his {el- low members, In fact, Mr. Dawes’ long service in the House has made him so arrogant that bis in- fiuence and personal standing have been steadily on the wane, for he has already met with a stun- ning defeat on the adjournment resolution, ana wil! meet with more after the exposure of his motives, as shown in his speech to-aay. His at- tack upon the management of the Treasury was unusually adroit and skilful, and the speech will undoubtedly be, in part, if mot in whole, the lead- ing campaign document of the reform opposition. Statement of the Secretary of the Trea- sury as to the Contracts for Collecting Unpaid Indebtedness—Fees of the In- formers and Assistant Officers. The Secretary of the Treasury sent a communi- cation to the House of Representatives to-day in response to a resolution calling for # statement of the amount of money patd from March 1, 1869, to November 8, 1873, by any person or persons in set- tlements of suits, judgments or clatme made by or in behalt of the United Staves for violation of the reveune laws at Boston and New York. ‘The state- ment accompanying the letter gives about 3,500 cases in New York, the names of the delinquents, the amount of the indebtedness and the names of the informers, with the amount awarded to them and to the Collector, Surveyor ana Naval Officer, 4c. The indebtedness for the greater part, in the individual cages, is small, ranging from $20 to $1,000, Some of the largest sums, together with the names of the delinquents, are ag follows:— Julius Borr, $41,846; Emanvei Hofman, $36,751; Peter J. Sturgis, $10,000; J. G. 0. Gemmans, $10,000; J. M. Mayuga, $12,250; G. W. Wylie and 0, Krenala, $15,000; M. and E, 0. Salomon, $12,000; L. D, Amessink, $39,710; 8. Cora, $10,500; Solomon Townsend and others, $33,748; A. 8. Rosenbaum, $14,600; N. HL Swift and others, $9,000; Joseph v. Ontoira and others, $50,000; R. Barker and G, w, ‘Weld, $75,000; J. R. Nowlindge and otners, $25,000. B. G, Jayne is stated as the informer in $93,000, in addition to at least $10,000 in smalier cases, : ‘Apart from these is the statement of the delin- queney of Phelps, Dodge & Co., namely, $271,017. The costs and expenses of recovery were $8,145. Jayne, as informer in this case, received $65,718, and the Collector, Surveyor and Naval OMcer each one third of that sum, OF $21,906—these officers in all similar cases receiving One-third as much as the informer. Frank E. Howe and George Browne, among other items, received $7,304 from the delin- quency of Charles M. Cosgrove; ana Frank E. Howe, C. M. Bracket and G, Rogers received $7,264 from the delinquency of Augustus Downing & Co., the indebtedness being about $60,000, The gross proceeds were $4,210,891 77. Duties, $222,774 71. Costs and expenses, $234,104 31. Net amount covered into the ‘Treasury, $3,753,512 75. The Collector received $407,245 97; Naval om. cer, $824,058 64; Surveyor, $891,213 61; in- formers, $716,248 04. Total amount distributed, $1,838,766 26, United States share remaining in the Treasury $914,746 49. The Secretary of the Treasury also transmits @ atatement of Ones, penalties and forfeitures in the districts of Boston and Charies- town, from March 1, 1869, to November 3, 1873, Among the larger cases are the following :—S, A. ‘Way, $100,000, of which B. G, Jayne, as iniormer, received $23,925; Richard Baker and others, $100,000, and Richard Baker, Jr., and others, $200,000; N. W. Bingham, B, G. Jayne and R. M. Kimball, as informers, receiving $72,748. The gross proceeds were $652,002 80; duties, $21,831 32; costs and expenses, $21,660 25; the net amount covered into the Treasury, $609,401 23, The Col- lector received $50,816 40; the Naval Omicer, $50,817 74; the Surveyor, $50,817 60; informers, $152,798 17; total amount distriputed, $35,249 92; the United States share remaining in the Treasury, $204,151 31. Expediency of Reducing the Clerical Force ef the Departments—The Appro- priation Bill To Be Reported To-Day. The House Committee on Appropriations to-day heard a statement from the Chief Clerk of the War Department in explanation of the force now em- ployed there, and especially that class known as “general service men,” or soldiers employed in clerical work. General Coburn, chairman of tne Military Committee, and Mr. Williams, chairman of the Committee on Expenses of the War Depart- ment, were present in order to advise them- selves Of the information the Chief Cierk had to communicate, The committee have decided, however, to leave the question of the War Department expenses to Mr. Wiliams’ committee. To-morrow the Commissioner of Agriculture and the Attorney Generai will be Neard in explanation of the affairs of their depart- ments. The committee bave decided upon a basis of organization for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. They, however, will be unable to touch the expenses of the Syndicate, ag that comes under another law. Mr. Garfield in the House to-day stated that he would report the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill to-morrow. The bill 18 not entirely completed, but may be reported and immediately reterred back to the committ-e. The chairman im conversation to-day stated that the bill wonld not be ready until next week, Award of Contracts tor the Supply of the Pablic Stationery. The Joint Committee on Public Printing, having examined the proposals for the supply of paper which were cailed for by the advertisement of January 8 and publicly opened on the 27th ult., made the awards to-day, John A. Sbober, of Lan- caster, Pa., was awarded! the privilege of supplying 25,000 reams of fine uncalendered printing paper, measuring 24 by 88 inches and weighing 53 pounds to the ream, at 11 37-100 cents per pound, Charles Magarge, of Philadelphia, is given the contract for 12,500 reams of calendered paper, weighing 53 pounds per ream, at prices irom 1398-100 to 14 45-100 cents per pound, Wheelwright, Mudge & Co., of Baltimore, secure contracts for some 25,000 reams of writing papers at prices averaging 17% cents per pound, and also ior all the paper required jor Post Office blanks at an average price of 12 89-100 cents per pound. The Seymour Paper Company, of New York, are awarded the contract ior colored writing paper, at 17 64-100 cents per pound. ~» A Bill Giving the Secretary of War New Powers for the Protection of Internal Commerce. The Secretary of War has sent to the House of Representatives the draft of a bill providing that, witha view of protecting the interests of com- merce and navigation, and securing thereto the unobstructed use of the navigable waters of the United States, it shalt be the duty of the Secretary of War to maintain a supervision of the construc- tion of all bridges heretofore authorized and nut completed, or that may be hereafter authorized to be constructed over such waters. The companies or corporations are required to submit to the Sec- retary for his examinstion and approval designs or plans of the proposed bridges, with maps, &c, Is, in his opinion, there will be no material ob- struction or impediment he may authorize their construction, but not otherwise. The bill proposes to repeal the law of 1872 Jor the construction of the bridge across the Arkansas River at Little Rock, because it would obstruct navigation. The bill was referred to the Committee on Commerce. Pians Recommended for Improving the Ohio River—An Important Scheme. The Secretary of War has sent to the House of Representatives a letter of the Chief of Engineers and the report of Majors G. Weitzel and William E, Merrill, of the corps of engineers, on the improve- ment of the navigation of the Ohio River. They are now prepared to submit a plan which they feel confident will fully meet the necessities of the case. Ihe special importance of the investiga- tion in question comes from its intimate connec- tion with the slack water plan for radi- cally improving the navigation of the river. This method of improvement has received the sanction of the great majority of the engineers who have investigated the subject, and it has also been approved by the Ohio River Com- missioners, a body composed of delegates ap- pointed by the Governors of the seven States bor- dering on the Ohio River or its tributaries. The commercial interests of the Ohio Valley demand that this river shall be so improved as to secure a minimum navigation of six feet. To test the whole scheme the Monongahela Navigation Company, who need something of the kind for their own use, Offer the use of the lowest dam on the Mononga- heia River for a chute 100 feet in width or half the wiuth proposed for ultimate adoption on the Ohio River. They propose to pay one-half the cost of the experiment, it being understood that in case of success they are to become owners of the gate and chute, The Board, therefore, recommend its acceptance, Important Meeting of the Committee on Claims on Saturday, The Senate Committee on Claims will hold an important meeting on Saturday to consider the question of the lability of the government for the use, damage or destruction of the property of loyal citizens in the operations of the national forces during the rebellion. There were certain sections where @ Union sentiment generally prevailed, but the exigencies of the service necessitated the use of the property of the inhabitants, the same as if they were less amicably disposed. There are @ large number of cases of this character, and their consideration is a matter of extreme delicacy, ag the committee are not at all desirous of admitting | any more than can be helped, The President and Other Dignitaries at a Wedding. Mr, John M. Morton, a son of Senator Morton, ‘was married to-night to Miss Brown, a daughter of Mr. 8S. T. Brown, of this city. Among the guests were the President, Speaker Blaine and a number of Senators, Interview Between the President and Governor Kemper—A Cordial Meeting. Governor Kemper of Virg{ftia being in Wasking- ton on business, made a call of courtesy upon President Grant to-day, remaining at the Execu- tive Mansion not more than fifteen or twenty min- utes. It was some time ago stated that Volonel Mosby trad pre-arranged an interview between these gentlemen; but the Governor says there is no truth in the report, and that he called merely to pay his respects to the Chief Magistrate the she above cases and asyeceiving, iM the sggregate, | same as anyother ciijgen of the United States, and with no political object in view. The Governor to-night, im conversation with some friends who called upon him at Wil- lard’s Hotel, spoke of the pleasure the visit afforded, the President receiving him in a apirit of marked friendiincss and courtesy, and in the course of conversa‘ion expressing his views de- Itberately, as if weighing his words, which lefta favorable impression on the Governor's, mind, As the interview was private the subject of conversa- tion cannot be explicitly stated; but it cam only be inferred by the Governor’s own free utterances to-night that he and his political iriends in Vir- ginia stand on @ broad conservative platiorm, which, he says, gives all the States co-equal rights 48 members of the Union, that they may discharge all their duties and restore periect peace and reconciliation to all parts of the country. They will support everybody who supports that plat- form, which the Governor tramed and which was endorsed by the people of Virginia; and they will oppose, he further says, everybody who opposes the conservative and harmonizing principles therein expressed. The Governor will return to Virginia to-morrow morning. Confirmation of Nomin: The Senate, in executive session to-day, con- firmed the tollowing nominations:—Harrison An- dreon, to be Pension Agent at Baltimore; John W. Jenkins, of Virginia, to be Secretary ior the Terri- tory of Colorado; Joseph B. C. Drew, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida; Master John J, Rodgers to be Lieutenant and Ensign Joseph B. Murdock to be Master in the mavy. 4 NATIONAL FINANCES, Mr. Dawes’ Exposure of the Present Con- dition of the Treasury—Owindling Down of the Baiance of Cash on Hand—What Shall Be the Prevent- ive of Bankruptcy!—Nothing Practi- cable But Retrenchment—Abolition of Unprofitable Custom Houses Proposed, WASHINGTON, Feb, 12, 1874, The House to-day discussed some measures of minor importanee,a few of which were passed, and then went into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Wilson (rep.), of lowa, in the chair, on the bill to Tepeal the stamp duty or tax on matches, THE GOVERNMENT'S FINANCIAL QUANDARY, Mr. Dawks, (rep.) of Mass. chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, proceeded to address the House. He said that he proposed to discuss the pending bill and the other bill on the calendar, the one repealing check stamps, together; and that as their discussion involved that of the condi, tion of the Treasury he should be obliged to pre- sent to the House the actual condition of the Treasury to-day. He should indulge in figures, not of rhetoric, but in offictal figures, The tax on matches and on bank checks had yielded to the Treasury Jast year $4,100,000—that on matches $2,500,000, and that on bank checks $1,600,000. The Commissioner of internal Revenue. estimated that the repeal of the tax on bank checks would require ® refund of nearly half a million to those Bow hoiding. the stamps unused. and at least a like sum to those holding unused stamps on friction matches, 80 that the question of tie repeal in- volved the depletion o1 the Treasury.to the amount Of $6,100,000, If the Treasury was im such a con- dition as to justify that reller to the Industry of the manutacture of matches. and the abolition of. Stamps On Qank checks it Was exceedingly desir- abie that tnis should be done, 1t was, tuereiore, the duty of the Committee. of Ways and Means, which was unanimous iD the repoyt that these bills should’ not pags, lo. present to the House the condition of the treasury, 30 that the House could judge whether that repeal could be effected with Buiety. ‘Nhe Secretary of the ‘Treasury had re- ported that he had on hand at the commencement of the fiscal year over $131,000,000. here was tuen ‘due on call against the United States, and ladle at any moment to be drawn— first, a special deposit of legal tender notes heid for redemption of certificates of deposit, $31,- 730,000; and’ com deposited tor coin certincates, $39,460,000. ‘The total available funds beionging to the government with which to meet its current expenses on the 1st of last July weré, thereiore, only $60,002,028. That consisted o: $48,047,402 in com and $11,954,625 in currency. This was the cash on hand on the 1st of July, 1873, the com- mencement of the fiscal year; und available for any purpose of the government. The receipts trom the Ist of July, 1873, to the Ist oi February, 1874, Cone the five lest days of Jannary, were $165,677,972, The estimated re- cepts for the remaining five months of tne ue were $116,100,000; making the total available income or sources of the government on which to draw during tne curreat fiscal year $281,777,972. The following sums had been expended during the fiscal year:—On acoount of the Sinking Fund, $12,936,450; on account of appropriations from July 1, 1873, to February 1, 1874, $17,174,585. The | abilities of the government on account of un- balances of appropriations are ‘The interest on the public debt 236,061. Account interest due and unpaid 18 $6,987,477. The estimated ex. penditures on account of sundry, indefinite and permanent appropriations are $6,826,000, making, witu sume auditional figures, which were Not clearly understood by tae reporter, a total of expenditures, incinding.all of the outstanding ap- aueersiae for which the government is to-day liable, $393,846,650, against available resources of $341,780,201; 80 that, if the government should be called upon during the year for all tne appropria- tions made by Congress, there would be at the ena of the year a deficlL of $52,060,449, ACTUAL CONDITION. OF THE TREASURY, But this did not present the condition of the Treasury feirly—only its actual condition on paper. Of the appropriations that bad been made and that were still unpaid, and ior which the Jreasury was liable, there were many which there was no proba- bitity the Treasury would be called upon to respond to, Many of the items came under the head of oiranton appropriations which, although made over two years siuce, had not been covered into the Treasury. instance, there was an item of two and a half miliions for the pay of the army in 1872, There might be here and there an unpaid claim under that head, but substantially the pay of the army for 1871 was concluded. ‘there was also an item of over twelve millions for the pay Of two and three year volunteers in 1871, and another item of a million and a half for bounty expended 138,381,557. @ half millions tor pensions for 1871, and there was put little probability that the Treasury would be calied upon ior any considerable proportion ¢ these sums, <A caretul revision of al years showed the aguregate amount of these sums to be $72,369,034. ‘Taking this sum into considera- tion and assuming that the Treasury would not be called upon ior it, there woult then be in the Treasury at the close of the current fiscal year the sum Of $20,302,385. This sum excluded the Sinking Fand—tnat is, the government would mect ever: actual lability and every estimated Hability, whic he has referred to, and would also provide for the Sinking Fund, and there would still be on hand over $20,000,000 at the end of the fiscal year. The Treasury had had $60,000,000 at the beginning of the year, and, there/ore, it Was necessary, in order to restore the Treasury to as good a condition as it had been in at the beginning of the year, to provide ior $99,697,614. But that condition of the ‘Ireasury was not entirely the fact, for agwinst. that twenty odd millions were to be drawn all the deficiencies that had arisen during the year, There has been as yet no Deficiency bill reported by the Committee of Ap- propriations except the Navy Deficiency bill, which was Piper and which had gone to tne account he had given. But the ordinary deticien- cles Were sometimes quite large. So far as they would arise this year they would diminish that item of twenty odd millions, He understood there would be $1,000,000 of deficiency in the Indian bureau and he had estimated the miscel- laneous deficiencies at $2,000,000, He had never known the deficiency bills at any session to amount to less than $3,000,000, and he had known them to go up as high as $13,000,000, UNAUTHORIZED EXPENDITURES IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. He had left out of his estimate of deficiencies the claims made by the District of Columbia for expen- ditures made in the District, and varying some- where from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000, By the act of 8th January, 1873, Congress had prohibited the Board of Public Works trom incurring or contract- ing further liabilities on behali of the United States in the improvement of streets, avenues and reservations, and from entering into any contract touching such improvements on behaif of the United States exvept in pursuance of appropria- tions made by Congress. in the tace of that pro- hibition, however, Congress was confronted with a claim that had occurred since the passage of that act of from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000, He did nos care to discuss the propriety or legality of that claim or how the money had been expended; but he would only say that, after the enactment of that statute the Treasury hag could not have contemplated = expenditure by the Board of Public Works for which the Treasury would be liable. If, however, this sam should be paid out it would add to the deficiencies, $4,000,000, which Would require $7,600,000 to be deducted from the twenty odd million dollars, There were @ variety of claims which would also come in to swell the pd il rs sion woul over $1,000,000, Mr. BALE, (rep.) of Ni wo millions, Mr. Dawas—That would raise the deficiency M4 '@ but $10,000,000 oc tO $9,600,000, which would I of cgsh-on hand in the Tre year, the beginning of it) was very evident was not safe for the Treasury of the United States to be re- uced #0 1oW: a8 $10,000,000 to meet such demands a6 might be made upon it ert meet such sudden emergencigg a6 i she abepuge of Con- for that year, and another item of nearly nine and | these outstanding appropriations for past | ‘The claims from the Mixed Commis: | gress. Noman would take upon himself to ais- caarge the duties of the Treasury nt uf he. were exposed to the liability of seeing tne bal- ance reduced to that amount, with the monthly expenses Of the government ver ry much more than that sum, urless ne was provid oy, Congress with some means on which he couid fall back. THE FORTY-FOUR MILLION RESERVE, Mr. GaBFTELD, (rep.) of Obio, asked Mr. Dawes whether, in his statement of the resources of the Treasury, he had included any part of the $44,000,000 of retired not improperly called @ re serve fund, some of which had been reissued. ir. DawkS repiea that the ,000,000 reserve and the ase made of it by the Secretary of the ‘Treasury had not entered into his calculations. He was showing what had become of the ,000, 000 on hand at the beginning of the $40,000,000 of which was im coin. The secretary Ol the Treasury finding his balance running low had, instead of paying out that coin, paid out part of that $44,000,000, and had kept tnat coin in the ‘Treasury, to answer for tne portion of the $44,000, 000 he had paidout. THR INCREABE OF THE PUBLIO DEBT. But when he had run down so low that he dare not retain the coin to answer for every dolar of the $44,000,000 he had paid gut, he increased the indebtedness Of the goverument, as appeared in the monthiy statement, to the amount of $11,000,000, which, however, he had subsequently been able to reduce to $9,000,000. The dept would have been mereased to the extent of the $44,000,000 reserve had it not been for the fact that tne Secre- tary, 1nstead 01 paying out coin, had retamed the coin and paid out paper. He (Mr. Dawes) did not mead to say that, starting irom the 1st of July, the debt nad been increased $9,000,000; but that from the time the Secretary ceased reducing the public debt up to that time the increase was some 39,000,000, Taking the aggregate trom the lst of july there had been more of a decrease than of en increase of the public debt; but what the amount ‘Was we had not now in bis mind. ‘The whole value of his statement depended upon two thiags—the reliability of the estimates of receipts for the next five months and of the expenditures; and, there- fore, he desired to call the attention of the House to the reliability of both those statements. The receipts of the first seven monthe o1 the fiscal year 1872-3 compared with the corresponding months of 1873-4 Were a8 ioliow For 1872-3—Custens. $11,000,000 oda Internal revenue. 67,000,000 odd Total.. - $178,842,786 For 1873-4—Customs. $93,000,000 odd internal revenus ++ 67,000,000 odd Total. ‘This sh + $150,527,084 @ receipts of the present year (rom those of last year of $28,315,702, ‘the comparison of receipts fur the last five mouths of the last fiscal receipts for the coming year was as follows :— 1872-3—Receipts ear with the estimated ve months of this fiscal five « .«»$127,000,000 odd the 116,000,000 oda 11,616,275 whether he took into account the tact that the reaction Irom the of last late panic had shown a leaning upward above the usual level? Mr. Dawes replied he had been going to say that there were doubuess a great many qualifications which were to enter into the estimate. Ail these qualifications must be taken ito account by every member who would sit down and look into the matter. Now, it was fair and due to the adminis- tration of the Treasury Department to inquire why it was that, beginning this year with sixty odd millions of caso on hand, it was to be closed with hardiy ten millions on hand, and with an increase ol the public debt, while last year forty odd milbons of the public deot had been paid, in addition to providing for the sinking fund, Con- gress, on the ist of May, 1872, nad passed a law abolishing the duty on t and tne ‘Treasury by that during tue eleven montus of the last fiscal year on tea $15,959,778 and on coffee $9,059,685, making & total Joss on these two articles of $25,019,463, On the oth of June, 1872, Congress had reduced the duty ou various articles and had put various other articles on the tree list by which the Treasury had lost m the same tine $19,000,000 and making @ to- tal reduction in the revenue of $44,367,313, Mr. KELLOGG, (rep.) of Conn., asked Mr. Dawes whether it was not a fact that the importation of ods had been lirger pefore the reauction of the Sates, under the law oi the 6th of June, 1872, than it bad been subsequently. Mr, DAWES replied that he was unable to answer the question at this moment. Mr. KELLOGG—I call attention to the report of the Secretary o! the Treasury, snowing that goods were imported to a Jarger amount when the duties were ten per cen‘ lugher than they were when the ES— committee will see for itself whether this statement which I have made is of any value. Nobody, of course, cau, with mathe- matical certainty, tell the House what will pe the receipts for the next five months ol this year. THE TREASURY LIABLE TO GO TO PROTEST. Nobody can teil with mathematical certaint; how much of this $72,000,000 will be drawn out of the Treasury belore tue ciose of the year. If there be any Value im this statement I ask the attention of the House a moment to this question :— Whether it be possible for us, in the discharge of our duty, to leave the Treas in this condition? Ifthe House with me that the Treasury is liable at any moment to go to protest unless it can have & margin more. to be relied upon than this, less than $1 every gentleman will see discharge our duty unless we,as @ law-making power, pass some measure by which to increase that margin. Oi course there are but turee ways todo that thing. It may be done by increased taxation, by a loan, or by the cutting down of the expenditures. Uniess one or the other of these three measures be resorted to, and resorted to in earnest, we who have the credit of the Treasury of the United States in our keeping, holding only the secretary of the Treasury and the admunistra- tion to a taithtul discharge of the laws which we make, shall have iaiied in the discharge of our duty. [need not say to the committee that it is our duty to resort to that one of these three meas- ures Which we know will be most productive of good to the country and to the Treasury and will reflect the greatest credit upon us, who have that management committed to our charge. DIRECT TAXATION, Shall (t be by increasing taxation? There never has been an instance in the history of this govern- ment when in time 0: peace new taxes have been imp sed for the purpose of carrying on its current expenses. If to-day we resort to this measure of taxation it will be the first time in the history of the government when we have imposed taxes on the industries of the country for the purpose of meeting our current expenses. We are emerging by degrees from & system of taxation imn- posed under overwhelming necessities, in- volving the lite of the nation, which the people bore iently and maniully and bravely because of the necessities, When the danger passed away the burdens began to be irk- some on tue peopte, and irom time to time we have met their complaints by relieving them, as fast aa the necessity Of the government would per- mit, from those burdens. I make free to say, and to take my share of the respon- sibility, that in the itast Oongress we went too far in relieving them more rapidly than the events which have since trauspired justified. It is due to the late Secretary oi the Treasury to say, and I cheeriully give him the benefit of the statement, that in the last moments ol @ con- ference committee ona bill on which there were four or five millions more of reduction to be made, he appealed to the committee and urged it to strike out four or five millions of that reduction, saying that the contingencies of the tutare were so great and so uncertain that no man could safely occupy the place he occupied and administer the finances of the government if we cut down the re- ceipts of the Treasury to the extent which we proposed, NO NEW BURDENS ! Listening to him, in the very last moments of signing the report there were struck out from that report these very Measures which are now pend- ing—the repeal of tne tax on matches and cueck stamps; but I cannot, for myself, make up my mind that the people of this country will take on their shoulders any new burdens. At this time I feel that nothing would be such a disappointment to the whole industrial interests of the coun- try as the increase of the burdens of taxation just as these industries are lifting {hemseives up out of a depression unparalleled for its suddenness and severity, I think we must Make up our minds to abandon the idea of in- creased taxation. I wish to do this, notwith- standing { know that when we took of the $25,000,000 of tax on tea and coffee that act did not reduce the price forthe consumers of either arti- cle one hall penny, the whole of it betug divided between the producer at one end and the wholesale dealer atthe otner, Bat it we Be on atax to-day it is necessarily Ve 80 Much on the consumer, and, therefore, lam not in favor of the imposi- ‘on even of this tax, although 1 was opposed to its repeal at the time it was repealed, unless I shouid find some other way out of tie pusition in which the Treasury is at present. Shall we resort to a loan In time of peace, of substantial prosper- ity, with no sudden demand on the ‘Treasury ? Have we no other way of meeting our current expenses but by borrowing money ¢ Shall we say to the nations of the earth, which are holding our securities and are invited by @ standing law ot the Jand to take our bonds at five per cent, that such is the condition of our Treasury that we can only pay the interest on these bonds and meet our current expenses by poorowing? I can think of nothing so fatal to the credit of the nation, not only abroad bac at home, as the public announcement here that we have no other way to meet the current and ordin: expenses of the government but by borrowing irom day today—that is, meeting our bills by making more. MAYNARD (rep.) asked Mr. Dawes if he did not recollect that in Mr. Bachanan’s administra- tion a loan had to be resorted to to meet the cur-» rent expenses of the government, ‘Mr. DAWES replied, that never but once or twice in the history of the government had it ever found itself compelled in time bat ~~ to borrow money % Condition of things administration, and the government had then been compelled to borrow een on bonds having sixteen years and the government d the fate of every man or nation that borrows money to meet their current expenses, and bad been compelled to pay these bonds when it was least pope to do it, His democratic friends would bear with him if he said that that was one of the evidences of the decay of the party which had administered the government subgtantialy for fity years, It showed that that party was then becoming | and was dying 0: the dry rot, That admin stra! me come IDLO Royer with $19,500,000 cash in asury, and gone out with @ debt of six Odd miliions, having had no demand upon it bu its current expenses, Since that time, with the ception of the interregnum o! Andrew Johnson, Mf the government had been in the republican party. But the other side was cow wi them, discussing the question whether, fiiteen Phys alterwards, the republican party should fall {nto the same error and meet the same fate. He assumed, thereiore, that the House would witb bim that there must ve some other way out of the dilemma than either impos- ing new ea Or Sompeoing money in the market. What shoula that new way be? EXPENSES OF TUB LAST SIX YEARS. Mr. Dawes then went on to refer 'o the expendi- tures for the last six years, as follows:—In 189, 1332,000,000; in 1870, — $309,000,000; in 1871, 242,000,000; in 1872, $217, 000,000; 1n 1873, $290,000, 000, and im the present i year of 1873-4, $310,052,044, In 1870 the expenditures had been reduced to eae while $101,000,000 of the public debt had been paid. In 1871 the ex- enditures bad been reduced to 000,000, and 94,000,000 of the public debt been paid. in 1872 the expenditures had been reduced to $277,000,000, and $69,000,000 of the public debt had been pald. ‘In 1873 the expenditures had rup up to $2v0,000,000 and only $43,000,000 of the public debt had been paid, This year the expenditures would be $319,000,000, without paying one dollar of the Public debt, Mr. GaRFIgLD asked Mr. Dawes whether he did not include in the expenditures of the present Year the $30,000,000 of the sinking furd, which was Not inclu’ ed im the aggregate of the other years, CUSTOM HOUSES THAT DO NOT PAY EXPENSES. Mr, Dawes plied that if be bad made any mistake on that head le had been migied by the Treasury Department, and he went on to contrast some of the items Of the present year’s expenditures with similar items for last year. as, lor mstance, &) provriations for public works, this year twen' mulions oad, last year fourteen mulhiona odd; aval establisiment, this year twenty-two mu- hons, last year eignteen mulltons; military estab- lishment, this year thirty-six millions, last year thirty millions. He compared the expenses for coliecting the customs irom 1806 to 1773, giving the SuowRS figures :— 866 + $4,200,000 1870 1867 1868, +» 6,614,000 18" 1869, | He then went on to refer to the extravagance of retaining ports of entry in places where the re- ceipts did not begin to pay expenses, and in that connection he had read a letter irom an ex-ap- praiser at one of thoge ports saying that when he received his appointment, with a salary of $3,000 @ year, he had written to bis Senator stating tnat the office was a sinecure, and had aiterwards told the same thing to the Secretary of the Trea- gury, and that about a year ago he had iniormed his other Senator that the law stoula be repealed and the office abolished. The letter went on to guy that an office-nolder who expresses such sentiments about his own position is decidedly unpopular in the republican party, and that in March last he had been removed, ‘or what cause he had not been informed, but ne presumed it was on the ground of iusanity, (Loud laughter.) ‘Ihere could have been no _ charge of negiigence or imcompetency against him, ior no oficer had ever been more fatthiul or diligent in drawing his salary, and there had been absolutely nothing else for him todo, (Continued laughter. Mr. PARKER, (rep.) Ol M0., asked Mr. Dawes to give the name of the writer, or at least to state the port of entry to which the letter referred. THE UNPROFITABLE PORTS OF ENTRY, Mr. Dawes declined to do either, but sent up to the Clerk’s desk and had read alist of ports which come under the category. Tuese included Alaska, Alvemarie, Alexandria, Norfolk, Apalachicola, Barnstable, Gloucester, Nantucket, Beaufort, Bel- fast, Bristol, Warren, Castine, Eastern Dis- trict of Maryland, Edgartown, Fernandina Georgetown. D. C.; Great aud Little Egg Harbors, Kennebec, chias, Marblehead, Michigan, New- ark, Newport, Perth Amboy, Puget Sound, Saco, Sag Harbor, Sandusky, St. Augustine, St. Johns, St. Marks, Stonington, Teche, Wiscasset, York- town, Ogden, Ill.; Evansville, Galena, Omaba, Parkersburg, Wheeling and St. Joseph. Mr. BUTLER, 01 Massachusetts, asked his col- league to state that he had introduced @ bill early in tunis session to abolish Marblehead, in lis (Mr. Butier's) district, a8 a port of oor: M:. DAWEs sald that he was much obliged to his colleague for giving him that opportunity to make an explanation. His colleague had brought him a number of bils the other day, which he wished him to imtroduce, as he was going out. of the House himself, and among those bills was the one to abolish Marblehead as ¥ port of entry. He was afraid that for that be would have his col- Jeague’s constituents rushing ee him “pell mell,’? (Roars of laughter, in which Mr. Butler joined.) Mr. Dawes then went on to specify expenditures 1m the way of iNeed buildings, altuding more par- ticularly to the new post offices—at New rk, which will have cost $7,500,000 at the end of this etd Boston, which would cost $3,268,500; St. uis, Chicago and Cincinnat. He gave the aggre- gate Of expenditures on public buildings since 1865 at $103,204,501. He also discussed, in the same conection, the extravagance of maintaining go many unnecessary navy yards and arsenals, Mr. GARFIELD, Of Ohio, corrected some of Mr. Dawes’ Agarea, particularly in reierence to the sinking fund, and he said that when he would report the Legislative Appropriation bill, as he ex- pected to do in a few days, he would submit some | detaiied statements concerning the expenditures and Es gop tape which would correct the state- ments of the gentleman from Massachusetis. The committee then rose at 6:30 o’clock, Mr. Dawes having occupied nearly three hours in nis speech, and the House took @ recess until 7:30 o'clock. Evening Session. In the evening session several amendments were made to the bill coaifying tue statutes, and Mr, Poland gave notice that in the session of Wednes- day evening next he would present amendments to the statutes in regard to customs, THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE ELECTION, + The election of officers of the American institute ‘was held yesterday at the headquarters of the or- ganization in Cooper Union. As usual the election was contested, there being two tickets in the field, one of which was beaded with the name of William Orton for President and the other by the name of Orestes Cleveland. The tatter was claimed to be the regular ticket by its supporters, while the op- position claimed that it was a ticket put |im the field by a political trick, stated in support of their assertions that the Orton ticket was considered the regular nomi- nation and that the Cleveland ticket was not made up until lace the day previous, its supporters stat- ing as their reason for so doing that it had been ascertained bv them that Mr. Orton was nota memver of the Institute. There were 366 votes cast, the Cleveland ticket being elected by an average majority of 180, Mr. ) Cleveland running ahead of his ticket by 17 votes, Teceiving in all 293 voves, ‘the ticket elected contained names :— bresident—Orestes Cleveland. Vice Presidents—Cyrus H. Loutrel, Thomas Rat- ter, J. Grosnon Herring. Keeording Secretary—Charles McK. Leoser, Corresponding Secretary—Samuel D. ‘Tillman, Treasurer—Edward Schell. Directors—Charies_F. Chandler, Geot Peyton, Charles H. Clayton, James L. Jackson, Hamilton E. Managers of the Pair—Nathan C. Ely, Ge lanagers —Nathan ©. Ely, George Thompson, Charles Wager Hull, ‘Alexander fe Kagleston, James H. Sackett, Walter shriver, George Whitefield, William &. Gavit, Charles F. Alien, Robert Weir, F. D. Curtis, Charles 8, arthar, James Knight, A. J. Halsey, William Rutter, Committee on Finances—J. Delamater, Charies Chamberlain, John P. Crosby, Abram 8. Hewitt, Charles A. Waicney. Committee on Library—Edward Curtis, Edward Walker, Samuel R, Welis, Augustus Wetmore, Jr., William Orton, Committee on Manufactures and Machinery—R. Hi. Thurston, Charles E. Emery, George H. Babcock, Wellington Lee, Frank L. Pape. Committee on Chem istry, Mineralogy and ogy—J. S. Newberry, Henry Morton, Newton Squire, C. V. Newton. Committee on Optics—L. M, Rutherford, John Frey, T. D’Oremieulx, James W. Ward, D.C. Chap- Engineering and Architec- ture—Wiliam J, Mcalpine, Robert G. Hatfield, John W. Rich, Samuel McBiroy, Edward 8. Renwick. Committee on Agriculture—Jonn Crane, Josiah H. Macy, Robert J. Dodge, Aaron M. Powell, Isaac P. Trimble. Committee on Horticulture—William 8, Carpen- ter, John Henderson, Isaac Buchanan, James Knight, E. Williams, Committee on Meteorology—P. H. Vanderweyde, G. Tagilabue, L. Bradley, James Prentice, Thomas ‘T. Howard, Jr. Committee on Weights and Measures—F. A. P. Barnard, John E. Gavit, James Bogaraus, John P, Chitiilion, Lewis Feuchtwanger. Committee on Commerce—Lioyd Aspinwall, Ed- mund Dwight, Alired T, Ackert, Johu T. Cleve- land, Jolin Lreland. “LOVE'S LABOR LOST.” To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Your correspondent, “Buskin Barker,” says that as far as he can find, “‘Love’s Labor Lost’ has not been performed since the days of the Globe and the following Blackfriars, Allow me to correct him. It was performed at the Walnut street Theatre, Philadelphia, during the manage- || ment of Pp. Bowers for the Mrs, ira. John Drew, season of 1857-8, The cur Tncinded ‘Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Mrs. F, B. Con- ‘Way, Mies Caroiine Richings, Mrs. John Drew, the late John Drew, Peter Richings, F. B. Conway, W. A. Chapman, &c. It was also produced in magnifi- cent style at the Arch street eatre during the first season of Mra. John Drew's management. ‘The costumes, scenery and cast were excellent and the final scene was designed aiter ‘“Watteau,” and the models sent from London by Mrs. John Drew, J. L., SAPHORE. and | PLENTY OF ICE. Ninety-Four Thousand Five Hundred Tons ¢ Day Being Gathered Along the Hudson—0,555 Men and Boys, 581 Horses and 41 Steam Engines Employed in the Harvest. PouGHKEEPSIE, Fed, 12, 1874 By the 1st of February last year the ice crop of the Hudson River, amounting to 1,408,500 tons, was snugiy housed and all tears of shortness for that season were dispelle1, This year the harvest- ing is almost @ month behind time, but, neverthe- less, work has commenced In great earnestness, and now the crystal cakes are being cut and stored With astonishing rapidity. Information. has been Teceived irom every ice house on the river, by telegrams, personal visitations and correspond- mae and shows how well the harvest Js progress a The reports commence with the houses of the Knickerbocker Company first. At Barren island, south of Albany, they have a 30,000 ton house, There 2 steam engines, 150 men, 50 boys and 15 horses are at work, At Schodack they have a 65,000 ton house, the largeat one on the Hudson. Seven elevators, 300 men, 60 boys, 25 horses and 1 steam engine are at work there. At Hamburg, between Catskill and Athens, there 18 @ 20,000 ton house, with 1 steam engine, 260 men, 8 boys and 10 horses at work, ‘At Athens there is @ 60,000 ton honse, with 7 elevators, 1 steam engine, 300 men, 60 boys and 25 horses at work. At Coxsackie there are two houses, with a capa- city of 75,000 tons, which are being filled by 490 men, 50 boys, 50 horses and 2 steam engines, ‘AU New baltimore there are two houses, 20,000 tons each, and 100 men, 50 boys, 10 horses and 1 steam engine are engaged in filling them. ‘At Little Flatbush there Is an 8,000 ton house, whicn is being filled by 125 men, 25 boys ana & orses. ‘At Catskill there are two houses, one on the Point, hoiding 35,000 tons, and one in the creek, hold- ing 8,000 tons; 300 men, 60 boys, 20 horgea and 4 steam engine are filling them, At Eavesport there is a 25,000 ton house, with 1 Steamer, 200 men, 25 boys and 8 horses at work. At Tarkey Point there is a 36,000 ton house, with 6 elevators, 1 steam engine, 279 men, 25 boys and 20 horses engaged in filling it, At Barrytown there 18 @ 20,000 ton house, with 1 rea engine, 175 men, 26 boya and 10 horses ac work. At Flatbush there i¢ a 65,000 ton house, with 1 ston engine, 400 men, 50 boys and 30 horses at work, In Rondout Creek there is an 8,000 tom house, 40 meu, 10 boys and 20 horses filling 1. At Roinebeck there 1s a 23,000 ton house, and fill- ing it are Leteam engine, 125 men, 25 boys and 10 oraes. At Keopus there is a 45,000 ton house, with 8 ele- vators, 1 steam engne, 4u6 mex, 60 boys and 30 horses at work. At Staatsburg there is a 26,000 ton house being filled rapidly by 1 steamer, 280 men, 20 boys and 16 horses, iY Opposite this city, a little north, there are two houses, both holding 26,000 tons, They have just commenced work with 3.0 men, 100 boys, 1 steam engine and 12 horses. At Mariborough there are two honses, holding 30,000 tous, and 350 men, 100 boys, 2 steam engines and 20 horses are filling them, From Marlborough south to Verplanck’s Point, at the southern entrance to the Hivhiahds, the Knickerbocker Company have no houses. Last season they purchased the rignt to take Ice from Menaugh Lake, inside of Verplanck’s Pot, ana erected a 20,000 ton honse there, and aow 100 men, 60 boys, 1 steam engine and 20 norses are filing it. Full work commenced at Rockland Lake yester- day, where to-day 5vd men, 150 boys, 2 steam en- gmes and 35 horses are at work. ‘The houses there hold 80,000 tons, ‘rhe avove is a fall and reliable report from all the houses of the Kmickerbocker Ice Company on the Hudson, At Highland Lake, south of Fort Montgomery, there 1s a 50,000 ton house, which 1s being tilled ror private parties by 200 men, 25 boys, 10 horses and 1 steam engine. At Hampton Point Mr. Peck has a 165,000 ton house, With 75 men, 12 boys, 6 horses and a steamer filling it. The Mutual Benefit Company are not at work at their house at West Park, but probably will com- mence to-morrow. At Stautsburg, however, the company have a@ 15,000 ton house, and 76 men, 5 horses, 10 boys und 1 steam engine diling it. At Port Ewen, opposite Kniuebeck, the Washing- ton Company have a 50,000 ton house, and 200 men, 60 boys, 16 horses and a steamer are at work at it. The ‘same company have @ house in Roudout Creek whitch holds 15,000 tons, and 75 men, 8 horses, 10 opre aud’s steamer are working it. At Whiskey Point they have another house which holds 45,000 tons, and 200 men, 25 boys, 10 horses and a steamer are at work there. Just north of there the Newark Company have a 20,000 ton house, with 150 men, 10 boys, 8 horses aud a steamer working it. At Barrytown 200 men, 20 boys, 12 horses and a steam engine are filling the Mutual Benefit Com- | pany’s house with 4,000 tons, Opposite barryton, on the west shore, the New | Jersey company are filliag a 20,000 ton house; 150 men, 20 boys, 8 horses aud @ steamer are doing the work. Farther north the Newark Company have another house of 40,000 tons, with 200 men, 20 boys, 12 horses and @ steamer filling it, Opposite Germantown the Consumers’ Company have a 70,000 ton nouse, owned principaily by New York hotel keepers, There are 260 men, 30 boys, 18 horses and a steam engine at work there, At Smith’s Dock, south of the above house, the New Jersey Company have a 45,000 ton house, sd nH ee 20 boys, 15 horses and 1 steamer are ling it. H. Van Steenburgh has two houses in Catekill Creek, holding 12,500 tons, nearly tuil. ne ANtioci Company have a 20,000 ton bouse in Catskill Creek, where 60 meu, 6 horses and a steam | engine are at work, ‘Tne Wasbington Oa have @ house on Rogers’ Island, just nurta of Catskill, which holds 40,000 tons, They have 175 men, 25 boys, 10 horses ana asteam engine at work. The same company have a 30,0u0 tum house at Athens and 180 men, 20 boys, 15 horses and a steamer are Milling It, Jonn Rolfe has a 10,000 fon house at Coxsackie, win men, 26 boys, 6 horses aud a steamer Work- in ae Stuyvesant J. Clark & Co. have a 32,000 ton house, and 160 men, 20 boys, 8 horses at a steamer are Niling that. KE. R. Seward & Co, have a 45,000 ton house at Barren Island nearly full, the work being per- tormed by 200 men, 16 horses, 20 boys and 1 steam engine. ‘tae Washington Company have 150 men, 30 boys, | 12 horses and a steamer at work on their 40,000 ton house at Coeymans. Winch & Kemp havea new icehouse at Catskill, | which holas about 4,000 tons, and which will be filled by 100 men, 20 boys and 10 horses. At ail of the houses above mentioned the ice averages nine inches in thickness, with a@ little snow ice in the Upper Hudson. The wages tor men and boys are about the same as last year. The men get $175 per day and tue boys from 6c, to $1 20 per day. Mr, Uren Dennet, the General Superintendent of | the Knickerbocker Company, who has just returned | day nignt fully one-half of the crop will be har- vested and that by one week from Saturday all the houses wiil be jull. Me states that now there are no fears whatever Of & short crop, The Poughkeepsie Ice Company are hard at work filling their house here with good ice irom the river, a8 are aiso the Morgan Lake Company. The petou! of the Hudson will certainly be fully Jathered, Us All the above statistics show that at the present time 8,180 men, 1,375 boys, 681 horses and 41 steam engines are engaged in the work of the harvest. Ail these houses gather, according to a close ea- timate, 756,000 cakes daily, or 94,500 tons, Ice Gathering Throughout the Country. The New Orleans ice crop is harvested in Maine, A fall ice crop has been secured at Paterson, Nd At Bath, Me., they are stowing away clear ice eighteen inches thick, The ice men of Taunton, Mass., are Milling their houses with cakes twelve inches thick. The ice men of Norwich, Conn., worked on San- day witn all their force, the seg doubled. Ice cutting has commenced on North Pond, at Fall River, Mass., the ice being about eight inches ‘thick, tonte (Conn.) Railroad Company have De rene Toehouse at Kent, wuich they propose to fill with ice from the Housatonic River, «ford (Conn.) Ice Company began cutting or gtr Park River houses on Tuesday. The danger of even @ short supply of ice appears to have passed. wae Three heavy ice trains passed through Ne flaven, Conn., on Thursday, from Manenchuserte, bound to New York. The ice in Eastern Massa- chusetts is six inches thicker than it isio Now York State. The ice crop in Indiana is reported to be a poor yield to the acre. In former years Fort Wayne has raised enough, not only for home consum} won but to supply other points, but this year will be obliged to seek @ supply in other The Hartford (Conn.) Post tat weather of the last iew has saved the tee ion from despair, and a crop ot toe, & foot lg The of ice thick, ng popiayy be annually stored in turd 18 about 27,000 tons,” It will the Newport cott learn Mnatinere will Der ho acaret ¢ "ice next of ice next New. | from a tour 01 all the houses, states that by Satur-.