The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1878, Page 6

8 NEW YORK HERALD!? po BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, pe e dollar por year, f SUBSCRIBERS. —Rem 11A OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH THE NEW YORK HERALD— AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. BT. JAMES THEATRE—Tnx Beuss or Comnevitie. GRAND OPERA HO PARK THEATRE—Cow THEATRE COMIQUE BROADWAY THEATRE BOWERY THEATE NEW YORK AQu. WALLACK'S TH SAMO, THE SORCERER Prainky Houses. CHICKER The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and eluudy, with rain, followed toward night by a@ gradual fall in temperature and clearing. To-morrow it promises to be cold and partly cloudy, possibly wiih light snow. Watt Srreer YesTerpay—' ‘was active and strong until near the close, when there was a general decline. Gold was more ac- tive, at 1001, a 10014. Government bonds were firm, States steady and railroads strong. Money on call was easy at 3 a 31, per cent. Tue Rumor Yesterpay that the lost se- eurities of the Manhattan Bank had been re- turned was of eourse unfounded. AROQND TEE ; Cirr Hau just J now the great and absorving question is, Who wili be the next President of the sRoent of Aldermen ? ‘Tux ‘Yessi: SBEL MooNsHINER! RS s will be glad to learn that an opposition house in the classic re gions of opi street came to Lien yesterday. Tue Tureves who robbed the mansion of the Episcopal Bishop of Central Pennsylvania had evidently no fear of the present or the here- after, ‘Tue Excrss of exports over imports during the past ten months foots up the enormous sum of more than two hundred and thirty-seven mill- ion dollars. —— Hunter, THE CAMDEN Murprrer, is making a desperate effort for life. The latest point in, his defence is that, under a recent law, the State of New Jersey bus uo jurisdiction in his euse. ir Conoress is in the mood it ean do some work before the hotidays. Several of the ap- propriation bilis will be ready: and there is really little other business of importance to be done. . Ir Wit Be Sexes from our court reports that, while Murphy is rescuing the intemperate brands from the burning, Dr. Crosby's society is ener- getically gnthering in the protits of the illegal liquor traftie. p A Dreision in one of the courts something more tangible than a mere allegation of irresponsibility or insolvency must be offered to justify u judge in compelling # suitor to tile seeurity for costs. ACCORDING Is THE OPryion of the Rey. Mr. Heyt, who took the trouble to investigute the Indian question last summer, plundering ihe Indian in the name of Christianity and religion is the chief industry on the tronti ix Rounp Nempens sev arrests were made yea bear in mind that nearly one- third of the mum- ber were next morni ischarged. In small dingly zealous, ty-eight thousand in the city during the past g matters our police foree are exce As THn Law Now Stayps p! and el ft will 1 regard to the e as mercantil ceedi trance craft. ranee trom porta seen by the pro- attention of Congress is to be called to the sub- ject next session. ‘Tae Weariren.—The tro of low bavome- ter that extended from the Gulf to the St. Law- reuce Valley on Sunday has moved over the Atlantic const districts without changing its relative direetion. The pressures within its area are very little below the me but they will very likely full as the depression moves iuto the ocean. The baromecer is highest in the Northern Mississippi and Missouri valleys and over the northern jake regions. It is also high, but falling rapidly, on the South Atlantic and eastern Gulf coasts. Rain has fallen in the lower lake districts and the Ohio Valley, the Middle Atlantic and New England States and over the Gulf. Snow is reported in the north- ern Jake regions. The weather in all the distriets has been generally cloudy. The winds have been from fresh to brisk in the northern lake regions and the West, fresh over the western Gulf coast and generally light elsewhere. There has been a de mperature on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, is been variable in some sections of the aie regions and has fallen in the other dis. triets During the latter part of this week the weather will very probably become extremely cold. 16 will be felé more from the fact that the her we have been experiencing for the past cight or ten days w remarkable for this late season, The weather in New York and its vieinity toalay will he warm and cloudy, with rain, followed toward night by a gradual fall in temperature and clearing. ‘To-morrow it promises to be cold and partly cloudy, possibly with light snow. ided rise The stock market | The Talmages, however, will do well to | easure yachts are | absurdly subjected to the same regulations in | gs of the Seawanhaka Yacht Club that the | _ NEW YORK HERALD, ,.TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1878. TRIPLE SHEET. | The Machinery of Specie Payments. | Secretary Sherman’s reply to the inquiries |-of the Baltimore bankers is not sufficiently explicit and cannot be regarded as satis- factory. He leaves the country quite ina | fog as to the facilities which he will afford to the holders of United States notes for readily converting themintocoin. It is too evident that public convenience requires that the law on this subject be supplemented | by aset of well digested Treasury regula- tions. The only provision made in the Ke- sumption act itself is in these words:—On and after the first day of January, | 1879, the Secretary of the ‘Treasury shall redeem in coin the United States legal tender notes then outstanding on their presentation for redemption at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States in the city of New York, in | sums’ not less than fifty dollars,” If there jis to be no other channel of redemption than the one here designated legal tender notes will be at a discount in most parts of the country whenever there is an active de- mand for gold. Ifa citizen of New Orleans or St. Louis or San Francisco happens to need coin for any purpose he will be sub- | ject to the risk, expense and delay of send- ing greenbacks to New York by express, and the further risk, expense and de- lay of having the coin received in exchange sent back to him by ex- press. ‘The agent who transacts the business for him in New York may have to await his turn behind a long line of people at the Sub-Treasury, adding to the expense and the vexatious delay. Besides the expense of transmission both ways he will lose the use of his money during the time consumed in the operation. He would find it cheaper and more convenient to paya premium on coin in his own city. The business of the gold brokers would not be abolished by redemption at one point on the extreme eastern edge of a country three thousand miles in extent. We must not be misled by an analogy founded on the method of » redemp- tion in England. ‘There are, to be sure, some close points of re- semblance between Bank of England notes and our government notes. Both are a fnll legal tender for the discharge of debts and for the redemption of other paper currency; but it must not be in- ferred that because one certre of coin re- demption is sufficient in England that it will answer equally weil in the United States, The local banks of England have abundant means of obtaining coin otlfer | than the sending of Bank of England notes to London for redemption. The great distinction between the currency of England and our own consists in the absence of small notes in the circulation of that country. No bank notes are allowed to be issned of a smaller denomination than five pounds, and the consequence is that a large amount of gold is used in ordinary daily transactions. A great proportion of our paper currency, both legal tender notes and national bank notes, is in small denominuations—ones, | twos, fives, tens and twenties. If these were all suppressed by law and notes of twenty-five dollars were the lowest that could be issued, there would be needed an \ immense amount of coin to fill the vacuum. In England wages are mostly paid and the retail trade mostly conducted in metallic money. ‘The state of the circulation affords to all the banks in every part of the kingdom facilities for recruiting their sup- | plies of coin at will, as a soil saturated with moisture feeds abundant springs and rivers, In that country there is gold in the hands of the people everywhere, and it flows into and out of the banks daily in the ordinary course of trade. The retail dealers receive coin for agreat part of what they sell and deposit it regularly with their bankers, so that it requires no trouble or foresight for banks to keep a supply of coin without having constant recourse to the Bank of England. They are always prepared to supply their customers with either notes or | coin, according to their wants, from sources | independent of the great central reserve in | London—namely, from their own depositors. Now, the condition of our own currency ia so different that the English practice is no guide for this country. Our small note cirenlation extludes gold from the ordinary channels of business ; our banks have not a source of supply in their depositors. When resumption begins they can procure | what gold they may want by sending green- backs to ‘the Treasury for redemption, | which will drain away the government re- serve to that extent, his is the reason why the co-operation of the banks is so im- | portant in the work of resumption. Secre- | tary Sherman has no right to expect their hearty and continued co-operation unless he meets them in a spirit ofmutual accom- | modation. It is for his interest that they | should take away no more of his stock of | gold than is actually needed in the current | transaction of business. He must not tempt them to make provision for fanciful exigencies and to accumulate large gold re- serves by way of precantion. If they find that they can obtain gold in exchange for | greenbacks only by the enmbrous process of sending their greenbacks thousands of miles and taking their chances of getting hustled in acrowd atthe doors of one sub-treasury, they will undertake to provide themselves in advance against such expense and an- noyance by converting a great part of their legal tender reserves into gold reserves and causing the government stock to dwindle very rapidly during the months of January and February, This would give uneasiness to Mr. Sherman himself and cause distrust among the bankers, who might then go into a general scramble to get as much of the gold as they could before the government gold on any business day of the year with- | ont the expense and trouble of sending to New York, they will feel no need of keeping a stock on hand beyond their current wants and will be content to leave the greater part of the coin in the enstody of the govern- ment, They will act on the same principle as private depositors ina bank, who prefer to leave their money in its keeping so long las they feel sure of getting it on call, but | Teserve was exhausted. But if such {arrangements are mode that bankers j and citizens in every part of the | conntry can exchange greenbacks for attempt to draw it all out at once as soon as they begin to have any doubts, Mr. Sherman's surest guarantee for retaining the greater part of his gold after resump- tion is a declared readiness, supported by adequate preparations, to give all parts of the country equal facilities for the prompt conversion of legal tender notes into coin. When everybody can procure gold in his own city or State any day he may | happen to want it very few will desire to | keep any great amount of it on hand for improbable exigencies, It may require some courage for See: a a Sherman to make every sub-treasury every government depository a place of re- | demption; but there are occasions when boldness is the truest wisdom, and even the safest precaution. By pro- viding numerous and widely distrib- uted places of redemption Mr, Sher- man will evince such complete confi- dence in the adequacy of his reserve and in the success of his great experiment as will inspire a like confidence in the country and forestall attempts to draw ‘out more gold than is really needed for the imme- diate accommodation of the public. Be- sides, the furnishing of such wide facilities will be an act of justice by giving equal ad- vantages to all parts of the country, and meking redemption an impartial blessing. Yellow Fever and Quarantine. It is a pity the sessions of the American Public Health Association should have ended in nothing. The published con- clusions of its deliberations disappoint the expectations of those who had hoped it would present some practical proposition for the prevention of future scourges of yel- low fever. It would have been better to suspend all opinions until a complete in- vestigation had been made rather than re- vive those which ample experience has long since shown to be unnecessary and re- strictive. i In reading the accounts of the rise and progress of the fever it is soon realized that panic feelings still overshadowed all cool and dispassionate reasoning, and that the spirit of the Middle Ages was predominant in suggesting remedies to prevent the in- troduction of the scourge. Here is one of the conclusions xdopted by the association as the sentiment.of that body:— “Second—That quarantine, established with such rigor and precision‘as to produce absolute nen-intercourse, will prevent the importatiom of specific causes of yellow fever.” The establishment of such a quarantine at this port would, as a matter of necessity, destroy our West India trade. To declare that no vessel from an infected port should enter this harbor from the Ist of May to the 1st of November would not be encouraging to the immense capitel now engaged in that trade. Yet.such were the measures advo- cated by the principal speakers and received with acclamation by the association. Ifthe South desires to pursue a policy so suicidal toward her ports we cannot assent to any such restrictions. For years past commerce from here with the West Indies has gone on with restrictions so slight as scarcely to in- terfere with the most active relations, while for four months of the year yellow fever is rarely absent from the Quarantine Hospital. This difference of action does not arise wholly from difference in situation during that time. As experience has again and again shown in past epidemics, the condi- tions for the spread of the yellow fever fo- mites areas favorable hore as at the South, It is not strange that yellow fever was introduced in New Orleans by the Emily Soutter last May. Were the same course adopted here as was practised with her yellow fever would reach our docks nearly every day during the season. So far, then, from studying the preven- tion of the fever from the light of experi- ence and the phenomeua of its natural history they present us jmpotent conclu- sions, founded in fear—retrograde, not pro- gressive. The Welcome to Lorne. . The exceedingly enthusiastic reception which the city of Halifax gave yesterday to the Marquis of Lorne and his wife, the Princess Louise, is fully described in our despatches from that point. If any doubt were felt that the sending of a son-in-law of Her Majesty to rule over the Dominion would prove in the least unpopular or ill advised it is dis- pelled by the evonis of yesterday. The good old city was stirred to a depth of eh- thusiagm such as she never felt before, and it is very certain that the exhibition of loyalty and affection she manifested toward the mother country is but the forerunner of the display of exuberant devotion that will be ‘presented ail over the chief colony of Great Britain. ‘This to the home government and to the Queen is the chief yalue of the demonstration, It shows that Canada is intensely loyal to the British throne and that there is no reason to fear that in the near future the North American dependen- cies of England will seek to sever the silken cords that unite them to the Empire. In a personal way the reception was a rare compliment to the Marquis and the Princess Louise. It is an auspicious opening of the new admin- istration ; the augury that in their new position they can count upon the citizens of Canada to make their path as smooth and pleasant af possible When the Cows Come Home. Really the cows seem disposed to come home to us now, and it comes home very handsomely to learn that the cow product is, exelusive of beef, superior in value to all the crops inthe country save only one— that of corn, Even King Cotton stands | lower down the statistical line than King Butter and Cheese. “Ho isan inferior po- tentate, Butif the cow stands so high com- mercially in the dairy respect how high would she stand if to the value of milk and butter and cheese should be added the valne of beef and ledther and the inex- haustible fortune that Peter Cooper has made out of glue? Perhaps in view of the possi- ble results of an inqniry in that direction the national gratitude might with a modifica. tion of Franklin's fancy obliterate the bird lof freedom from our ssciihilhanes and put the useful cow in his place, ‘Then we might well contemplate tlat~ ‘hulking fellow, John Ball, as ‘ta little more if-less than kine.” No doubt the dairy fair so soon to be held will convince the world at large that this is really a cow country, as, indeed, a land of fertile valleys and vast grassy plains should be. Is not the buffalo, indeed, nature’s evidence of this fact experimentally exhibited? He is | our wild beast, and his existence is a tribute to the climate and the capacities of the country. He is passing away, too, they say. Let him pass; let him, indeed, be slaughtered down to the last buffalo, His extirpation is the real solution of the Indian problem. One of these days, when he is gone, all those plains he now inhabits will mestic cow, and one cow is worth at least twenty buffalocs. Sheridan versus Sehi The lively controversy which has arisen between the two highest officers of the army on one side and the Department of the In- terior on the other turns on dispated ques- tions of fact, and the public naturally as- sumes that the army has a more tlforough state of things in the Indian country than it-is possible for civilians in Washing- ton to possess. It has been the main business of the army for several years to watch and punish the Indians, and the two or three Indian wars per annum have made the study of the Indian question the engrossing occupation of our most dis- tinguished officers, General Sherman has made repeated tours of observation through that part of our territory, and Generals Sheridan and Pope are as familiar with it as Secretary Schurz is with his favorite stumping ground in Ohio, These officers speak on their intimate personal knowl- edge of a region which they have many times explored, while Mr. Schurz can deal only in second hand impressions, de- rived from such Indian agents or other in- terested parties as thrust themselves upon him. or as he chooses toconsult. The dif- ference is not at all a question of sincerity or of veracity, but of the comparative value of the two sources of information, It is a pitting of second hand impressions against long and accurate personal observg- tion by officers who haye passed a great part of their military life in close contact with the Indians, Secretary Schurz should have reflected on this great contrast of op- portunities before writing to the Secretary of War his impetuous letter complaining of and repelling certain statements made by General Sheridan in his recent an- nual report, Sucha display was certain to provoke a rejoinder, and it is not quite sefe to fall into the vigorous hands of Gen- eral Sheridan on a subject which he has so much better means of understanding. General Sheridan’s letter to the War De- partment is strongly indorsed by General Sherman, who expresses himself with the incisive frankness which is so characteristic of this keen and clear-headed soldier. He gives his personal testimony to the salubrity, fertility and convenience of Fort Sill asa post for watching and supplying the Indians, and he remonstrates against the waste of abandoning it to take up a new position which might save a pitiful hundred dollars to the Indian Bureau at the expense ofa hun- dred thousand dollars to the government. If the Secretary of the Interior is unwilling toaccept his statements General Sherman suggests that Mr. Schurz send a disinter- ested inspector, ‘‘who will find that Fort Sill is, of all places, the best in the whole Indian Territory for water, soil, everything.” General Sherman speaks with as much con- tempt as is consistent with official decorum of the sources of Mr. Schurz’s information. “Neither the President,” he says, ‘‘Secre- tary of the Interior nor Commissioner of Indian Affairs has ever been in that region, but General Sheridan has, and so have I, We believe honestly that deceit has been practised by somebody to influence these high officiala to remove the large tribes of Kiowas and Comanches to the small tribe of Wichitas.” The public will believe that this air of confidence betokens correct in- formation. + Horrible Revelations, The revelations made in our Syracuse despatch, published yesterday, in regard to the treatment of insane paupers in the lunatic asylum attached to tho Onondaga Poorhouse are of a horrible character, and it isto be feared that the revolting story might be told of a great many other coun- tics in the State. A committee of the On- ondaga Board of Supervisors having been deputed to inspect the Poorhonse decided to make their visit unahnounced, in order that they might see the institution in its everyday dress and under its ordinary management. Their determination proved to be wisely taken, and their investigation hag brought to light abuses which might otherwise have continued for years without “discovery and exposure. It bas been the custom of the Onondaga Board of Sup- ervisors to make annual inspections of the county buildings, of which due information has always been given to the county authorities. These yearly visits have been a mere matter of form so far as a proper inquiry into the’ management of the institutions is concerned, although they have been pleasant enough junketing parties for the county representatives. The proceedings on such occasions in Onondaga have not differed from the custom in other counties. The first business in order has been a collation at the expense of the county, at which turkeys, partridges, chickens, sandwiches, cake, wine, liquors and cigars have done their best to pai the Supervisors in a happy mood with ‘all the world and the rest of mankind.” Then the “examination” of the county in- stitutions has commenced, and newly serubbed floors, paupers in holiday suits and cotintenances drilled into an expression of smiling content, seen throngh the pleasant colors of amber sherry, straw tinted champagne and maroon shaded brandy, have satisfied the Sipervisors that there never were mote efficient county officials than those of Onondaga. So yearly reports have been made by the Board, and the peovle have been led to believe that the be the home of his remote relation, the do- | and more practical acquaintance with the | men intrusted with ie enre of the unfortu- nate beings who become wards of the county | of Onondaga are as remarkable for their than kin | humanity as for their bpnenly and efficiency in the public service. All these rose-colored “stories have been spoiled by the sudden visit of the practical. committee, which entered the Poorhouse “without a word of warning, taking the keeper unawares.” An examination of the building set apart for the pauper insane brought to light the fact that some of these unfortunate beings are thrown into wooden | cages in a foul and filthy cellar, to which | scarcely a ray of light can penetrate, and where they are left in a condition horrible | Por the ten months ended October to contemplate until death—which cannot | belong delayed in such o pestilential at mosphere—comes to relieve them of their sufferings. ‘Ihe deseription of the poo creatures, as they stood startled and dazed | by the gleam‘of light trom the lantern car- ried by the committee, would be regarded | as overdrawn if given in a novel, but is only a truthfal account written by an eye witness | from a scene of real life. Our criminal ‘laws must, indeed, need revision it such brutality as is shown to have been practised in the treatment of these insane paupers cannot be punished as it deserves to be. But the Supervisors of Onondaga county should at least take steps to make an example of the inhuman officials and their subordinates by driving them at once from the public service, There can be no necossity to search where the re- sponsibility lies. It is shared by every human being in authority at the Poorhouse ; by the superintendent, the doctors, the keepers, the nurses and alt whose duties employ them in the buildings. The hor- rible treatment of the unfortunate inmates can have been no secret from any person in or about the buildings, and no man or woman who was aware of the existence of these filthy pens and failed to make the fact known should be allowed to hold a public position, however humble. An ex- ample made in this case by the discharge of every employé in the County Poorhouge and by the prosecution of the principals, if they can possibly be reached by law, may have the effect of reforming similar abuses in other counties of the State. The Case of Miss Fancher. ‘From time to time we have recorded the peculiarities of the case of the unfortunate invalid lady in Brooklyn whose condition has within a few days attracted in so grcat a degree the attention of our contempora- ries ; and a few days since we said that the case might properly enough be classed in the number of histories of hysterical imposture, if there was any preteace that this person actually lived without food. There is not, as we have pointed out, any such pretence ; and it seems unfortunate that a distin- guished physician has: rather coarsely and hastily put the case ing category in which, therefore, it is not rightly placed. Miss Fancher’s friends, it appears, are aston- ished at the infinitely small quantity of nutriment that suffices with her to sus- tain life. Perhaps, im the natural hu- man disposition to make ao wonder of whatever is aside from the ordinary line of common experience, they exaggerate this part of the case in their statements; but with allowance made f@ this rigid inquiry might find that the food taken is much less in quantity than is commonly supposed to be necessary to support life, It must be re- membered how different, however, is the life of this bedridden person from that of one in ordinary activity. Growth completed, food has two purposes—to supply the waste of the system and to furnish force. Now, Miss Fancher has the smallest conceivable necessity for food for the supply of force, and, if possible, an even smaller need for it for the supply of waste tissues. She does some needlework and she talks a little, and in respect to any other activity seems more nearly dead than alive. Would it not be better worth while to make physiological anomalies of this sort the basis of inquiries in the problems the cases touch than to coarsely denounce t them ? b PERSONAL | INTELLIGENCE. Princess Louise's sick transit was ended on glori- ous Monday, Senator George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, is at the New York Hotel. How prondly the stately turkey walks to-day. How proudly we shall walk on Thursday. Senators M, C. Butler, of South Carolina, and William Pitt Kellogg, of Louisiana, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ‘Tam Kin Cho, Chon Cho Sy and Lew Lang Po, of the Chinese Embarsy, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, on their way from Hartford to Washington. When the daughter of » Russian nobleman goes into an institute for her education she is not allowed to go home until she leaves for good; o that She has no home life in her girlhood. Von Biilow says that music can be enltivated with success in those countries only where the sun shines and the grape ripens; and Sir George Bowyer says that nol more than two per cent of the inhabitants of Great Britain can be tanght to sing a tune. Justice Miller, of the Supreme Court, says that even on the benclt David Davis was @ good politician, who controlled most of ihe appointments, and that, upright and frank, he has earned more money than any other man who ever was a Justice of the Supreme Court. Henry Faweett, M. P., insists that socialism prom- isea danger in Germany because the government is paternal, aud workmen have come to look upon the State as able to provide anything; and he likens the socialism of the United States to that of Germany, becanse our system of protection has made car gov- ernment paternal, ‘ Yoshida Kiyonaro, Japanese Minister, passed through Omaha, Neb., yesterday*en rowle for Japan, whither he ix going on a visit of five or six months’ duration. He was accompanied by his ily and servants and Takaki Sanaro, Japanese Consul, and wife, arfl Asada Gasunon, Secretary of the Japanese Legation. Mr. David Taylor is the agent of Ole Bull; and either he or Mr. Bull or both have made a bull of it. He or they have enclosed to a gentleman connected with the Tiinaip a check for $26, ostensibly for work | done, but really to pay for notices which they expect to find in the Henanp this week, Well, let us begin the notices by presenting the public with the check :— ee eoamean 2 yNo. 4. Browns, ——— 187. 3 Brooklyn Trust Company, pay to the order of myseit 3 ‘Twenty-five dollars, ees DAVID TAYLOR, | QD OLLLELONEEDIELE REL OREVOEDLOOE DEDEDE PEED OEE Here is Mr. Taylor's letter ale Guvere AVENUE, Broon.ys, Nov. 22, "73. Dean Ma, ——— :—1 had @ letter from Mrs. Bull today and she thinks it best to begin announcing Mr. Bull's concert for the 14th Devember. If you think beat supposing you give afew notices for next week. Feeling gratefal for what you have already done for Mr. Bull I enclose check, Yours traly, DAVID TAYLOR. : 5 ; WASHINGTON. ° FBI att S28: GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. [WasHincron, Nov. 25, 1878.) IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF MERCHANDISE AND COIN, - From the monthly statement of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics to the Secretary of the Treasury the excess of exports over imports ef merchandise appears to have been as follows:— ; For the month ended October U1, 187! For the month ended October 31, 187" For the teu months ended October 31) 1 y A comparison of the exports and imports of gold and silver coin and bullion exhibits the fotlowing:— For the month ended October 31, 18 096,801 ror the month cess of exports. 298,169 ‘Ten months ended October 31, 1578, excess of imports s+ 2,416,261 ‘Ten mouth: IN THE RAILWAY MAIL SERVIC: IGNATON OF SUPERINTERDENT VAIL, The resignation of Theodore N, Vail, perintendent of the Railway Mail Service, to take | effect on December 1, was to-day accepted by the Postmaster General, William B, Thompson, at pres* ent Superintendent of the Ninth division of the Rail- way Mail Service, at Cleveland, Ohio, will succeed Mr, Vail, aud Mr. Thompson's successor will be Mr, Lovell, late head clerk of the same service at New | York. The tender of Mr, Vail’s resignation elicited the following letter;— Post Orricz DupartMeEstT, | Wasutneton, D. C., Oct. 23, 1878, J Var, Superintendent ot the Railway Mail —With very great reluctaney I aceept your resignation as Superintendent of the Railway s The ability, energy and skill with conducted your branch of the postal service have, in my opinion, contributed ve: ig largely to bringing that service to its present high state of cltic 'y, and entitle yow not only to # high rank among those who have built up and improved our postal system, but also to the gratitude and approba- tion of the country. With the very best wishes for your future success, Ihave the honor to be, very truly yours, . M. KEY, Postmaster General. TEMPORARY CLERKS DISCHARGED FROM -THE ‘TREASURY DEPARTMENT. . Daring the past few days between sixty and seventy exmptonsel the majority of them being females and on the roll for “temporary clerks,” were discharged frou the Preasury Department. They were paid out of the appropriation of $26,000 for temporary clerks made at the last session, and that appropriation being ex- hausted they were consequently discharged. As Sec- retary Sherman is convinced ‘that the necessary dis- charges made ‘h year when the appropriation is exhausted canses greater distress than no appropria- tion, and on account of the great trouble given to the department, he will not recommend a renewal of the appropriation in his report to Congress. : “ WORK OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEES. ‘The House Appropriations Committee have dis- tributed to the various sub-committees the estimates which have been submitted by the several depart- ments. These will be informally considered in the interval between now argl Friday, when a formal meoting of the Appropriations Committce will again be held. The suh-committee, consisting of Representatives Durham, Smith and Clymer, have completed the Mili- tary Academy Dill, and it will be reported at the open- ing of Congress. It is substantially the same as tho bill passed at the former session for the support of the Academy for the present fiscal year. A sub-committee, consisting of Representatives Atkins, Foster and Durham, made considerable prog- reas to-day with the Legislative, Executive and Ju- dicial Appropriation bill. ‘The Fortification and Pension bills will be ready bed report to the House at an early day. The joint committes to consider the question ot transferring the Indian Bureau to the cuatody of the War Department are now announced to sit with open doors. The'committee mects to-morrow. ‘The Ways and Means Committce have been called to meet on Tuesday of next week. Mr. Fernande ‘Wood, the chairtian, 46 expected to arrive on Friday next. AMOUNT OF STANDARD SILVER DOLLARS COINED. The total number of standard silver dollars coined since their remonetization, upto and including the 28d inst., is 19,814,551, Of this number about ten and: a half million are in the United States), Treasury, some four million ¢wo hundred thousand are in the Mint vanits, and the balance (alittle over five million) is in general circulation. The first coinage under the Remonetization act of last seasion was on the 13th of March, The total, it will be observed, is in excoss of the minimum requirement of the law, which pro- vided that not leas than two million nor more than four million of the standard silver dollars should be coined monthly. THE CUSTER MASSACRE. A COURT OF INQUIRY INTO THE CONDUCT OF MAJOR RENO AT THE LITTLE BIG HOBN BAT~ TLE. Wasursortor, D. C., Nov. 25, 1878, By direction of the President, on the application of Major Marcus A. Reno, Seventh cavalry, a court of inquiry is appointed to assemble at Chicago, Ill, on the second Monday of January next, for the purpose of inguiring into Major Beno’s conduct at the battle of Little Big Horn on the 25th and 26th of June, 1370, ‘This was the fight with the Indians In which General Custer was killed. The court is to report its opinion and whether further action ia deomed necessary. It has been charged that Major Beno was remiss in car- rying out his orders, The following is the detail of the court:—Colonel John_H. King, Ninth infantry; Colonel Wesley Mer- rett, Pitth cavalry; Lieutenant Colonel N. B. Ko} al, Thiyd cavalry W th Lieutenant Lee, Ninth infantey, as THE DEATH H PENALTY. [py ‘TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Harnmisnunc, Pa, Nov. 25, 1873. As was indicated in a previous despateh, the coun- vel of Jack Kehoe, whose death warrant has twice been signed, has made an applicatich for the re- opening of the case by the Board of Pardons. The bore was filed to-day, and should it be fave ly considered there is ecarcely a doubt that the murderer would escape execution, a stich action would lead to the kimi of the death warrant, designating the of » De- cember for the hanging. As the nex agate Be facet. ing of the Board would not be held until the first ‘Tuesday in January, it is believed by Kehoe's friends that if his case can be carried over 's adl- ministration he will not suffer capital punishment, asthe new Governor would not take responsi- bility of hanging him. Applications were also filed to-day for commute tion of the death sentences of Martin Birgin James MeDonneil, two Moll lires, to imprison- ment for life. ‘These two Molly aires are also to be hanged on the 18th of December. KILLED BY AN ACCIDENT. (BY TELEGRAPH To THR HERALD.) Py + Newporr, R. L., Nov. 25, 1878. Advices from Vineyard Haven this evening state that, on Saturday afternoon, while the schooner L. 3, Levering, Captain Corson, coal laden, from Hobokea for Boston, was in res Sound, off Cuttyhunk, the mute, Socrates nee Goshen, N. J., was caught in the main in eee acess wh against the Jee rail, His back was broken and he lingered until tive o'clock yesterday morning, when he expired, - ———— ane THE AUBURN STATE PRISON. [#Y TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Synacuse, N. ¥., Nov. 25, 1878, ‘The reported determination on the part of the Gow ernor to remove Mr. Welles, the present Warden of the Auburn State Prison, creates a sensation in polié ical circles hereaboute, William J, M the Auburn News, ia the man to si It is claimed that this is a move to get rid of Super intendent Pillsbury, with whom Welles is a spec’ otegé. The former says he will resign it Mr, Velles is disturbed, and that is what is desired, Su> . perintendent Pillsbury having refused point blank te administer the prisons for party pw es. His ape pointments in Auburn Prison are partly republ. as they are in other penal institutions over which has control, NEW YORK ELECTION. ALnANy, Nov. 25, 1878, ‘The Board of State Canvassers met this afternoon and canvaseed all the returns except those from Erie and Kings counties, and then adjourned until Wednes- day morning next,