Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1884, Page 1

OMAHA DaAIlLy BEE FOURTEENTH YEAR. u;_g;M. Tie Aumnal Report of Postmaster General Hatton, HATTON'S REPORT. The annnal report of the postmaster general for the fiscal year ended June 50, 1884, is com- pleted, and for tha fiest time made public Tntroducing his report with “a well-deserved tribute” to the Assistants and various chiefs for “efficiont service and valuable aid,” the secretary firet makes the FINANCIAL STATEMENT, The total expenditures made on account of the service cf the fisosl year ended Juno 80, ) 1884, were. ..o o..iilll $40,401,960 G5 Therovennes for the year were as follows: 1. Ordinary postal rovenua........$42,818,635 00 2. Net revenue from money-or- dor business. . — 4 19,492 08 38,127 03 Excess of expeiditures over receipts. .. vos « 3,066,833 57 To which should be adde 1 Estimated amount of standing linbilivies. .......... 2. Amount credi ed on books of treasury to Pacific railroad companies. ... out. 87, 71 04 1,260,179 51 Gives estimate | cost of service over the revenues for the fiscal year . o .$ 5,204,484 12 The revenues wera $2,170,565.63, or moro than 4 7 per cent less thn those of tha pre- vious year; tho decreaso being attributable to the reduction of letter postage from 3 to 2 cents, which took effect October 1, 1883, In addition to the amount expendea for the service of the year $819,000.62 was paid on account of liabilities of previous years, mak- inz the total amouvt disbursed during the year (axclnsiva of credits to tha Pacifie rail- ronds,) $17.2:4,500.27. Tha amount paid to postmastors was S11, 283,830,87, sn increase of $£65,436 41 over that of the previous year for the same pur- pose. 'This expenditure was $333,830.87 in excess of the uppropriation, For railroad transportation the audited ex- penditures and estimated liabilities for the e of the year, including also the sums ed t> the Pacific roads, 813,815,163, The aggegate amount appropriate for the service of the year $16,746.087.62, or $341,- 076,97 more than the amount disbursed on ac count thereof, and $536,394.07 less th n the total disbursementsand outstanding liabilities. Estimated receipts for 1886, $31,272,820 2 estimatad expenditures for 1886, $56. 169.50; defi iency to bo supplied froai the general treasury, 34 826 349,20, An estimats of the revenue for the ensuiog fiscal year is attended with great uncertainty, becauee of the reduction of letier postage to two cents, which took effect on the 1st Octo- ber, 183, Although the change was in actual operation duricg three-quarters only of the Inst tiscal year, its effoct was felt ujon the revenua for the entire year; the sales of stamps for the quarter ending September 30, 1883, having been geeatly cuctailed in view of the then approaching reduction in the rate. Thus the salos for that quirier vnder the three-cent rate amounted to $10,(83,509 53, while the averago for the thres succeeding (uarters was $10,220,781.88 REDUCTION IN THE RATE OF POSTAGE. The past year marked an important opsch in the history of th postal serzice througu the reduction ia” the letter rato of postage from three to two cents, taking effect on the 1st of October, 1883 uuder the provisions of the act of March 8, 1883, As the class of matter af- fected yielde | by far tha larger portion of tho postal revetus, the change, ot course, pro- duced an imwediate falling off in the recipt: The ordinsry postal reveous for the yoar end- ed Juae 32, 1354, was $2,278, 434,24 les« than that of the preceding your. To this loss should, of course, be added that of the natural iucreass o have been expectad had the three—c2nt rate ramained in force. Thowgh the three-ceut rate was ia force during the quarter ended Soptember 3). 1883, the sales of stamps, &2, for that quarter were $137,271.85 lss than tho average for the three remaining quarters under the 2-cent rate; the anticipated (hange i the rats hav- 1og lud to a serivus fallivg off in ths sale of stamps, That the loes of revenue wes not greater must be regardet as gratifying, in view of the fact that © e estimates on which the change was based contemplat.d a loss for the first year of about S8 000,000, 1+ is avi- cenc the prediction has been fully verrifie that the reduced rato would greatly stimuls letter c.rrespondence, and lead to the sutstitu- tion of sealed inclosures for postal cards and open circulars, The Increase ia {he number of letters carnot be stat d, the department havi 1g 1o ktatistics o show the number of s of each of the several classes of muttor mailed, ond the sams kicd of stamps being used indiscriminatoly for firet, thivd aud fourty class matt Na.ther do th rales furnish any goide, siace postinaste s in acconnting to the auditor report the smount in tho aggee- gate and not in detail of the several kinde anl denominations, In postal ¢ rds thera was a'decrease in the issues of 16,640,000, “or 45 poc cent, for the year ended June 3), 1884 as compared wita the provious yaar, ' Dariog tha pracoding fi yeors there has 7 au average annual in- erease of 13 (8 per cent. VABIOUS MAIL MATTER “The amount; of postige collested on s olass matter dusiug the yearw s 81,68 ) an increase of £181,414 61, or 10 82 per ceat, over the previous yoar, The number of lettors and parcols through the rezistered mails duning the year was 11,246,545, of which 8,008, were do- mestic lotturs, 465,902 were letters addressed to forelgn countiies, The amount of r gistry fees colle tod was $U57,050.80, an increase of $30.509 60, or 33 per cant, over the provious year. The ectually ascertained losses during the year numbered 516, or one in every 21,79) let- ters aud parcels registered. Tais is o' smaller proportion of loss thun in any previ-us year, and shows increasing « fliciency end fideli'y on the part of postal officials ia this beanch of the service, "The gros3 recoipte of articlos of undeli mail matter during the year were 4 751 5 increase of listle more than 8 per cent over the previous year, THE APPOINTMENT DIVISION, Number of officse establisted during the year, 3,410; discontinuad, i 8o of offices estaulished, 151; iucraase discontinned, 361, Thers are 561 dapartm mtal officss and e ployes, uud 71,671 pusiuasters and othcr offi cers aud ageuts,? POSTOFFICES AS SINEOURRS, At differont times during the year & thor. ough investigation was ma fe, under the direo tion of the chisf postmaster inspecter, of all first and second “class offices. Tae result of these investizations was gratifying to the de- paremant. Dishonest wud negligent offiials wera discoveied The former were removed s Litter razrimanded and mors fully instructad 10 thele dutios. La a largs number of caes whern postm w6 ware discovered Lo be whors in thal: ue ounts it way owing to egligenes or w lack of abilily to mansge the afaits of their offi ex Too mauy pwtmasters foel warraoted in ro- garding their positious s sinecures und feel free to give theie attention to other business, content o draw theic walaries s official | leaving the work of managing their offices to others, Thisshoud not e allowed, Post mastura at fisat aud second clye offic’s should be required to give their entioe time to their official dutics, aud should not be permitted to engag » in sny other business that requires any portion « £ the viw s for which they are pud by the governuient, Tnis aesult should be brought ubout il it 1equires & sta‘utory evact ment to effoct i THE FREB DELIVERY YSTEN, The system was extended :lurlr* the year to the cities of Chuttancoga, Teon.; Los worn a1 aruids = NEW YORK. Angoles, Cal, Montgomery, Ala; Ottumwa, Towa, and Séianton, Pa, making the total er 150, The number of carriers was iv od 9210, making total of 8,800 Closs of the year, 'Tho appropriation for this service was §3,514,658.40, POSTAL FINANORS, The postage on local matter aggregatad $1,. 484,87 an fncrease of $117,74545 and o ver 1, 5 the Freo delivories are now asceeded_onlv to otal cost of the service, 00 or towns where tne population reaches the poatal reven.e 20,000, In my j: the law ehould be so changed as to permit the aggregation of population and the postal rey eune of these towns, and the service should be extended to them when they meet the re quirements of the law. "The result would be a diminution in the number of offices and a more eatiefactory and economical service. CHEAPER POSTAGR, Since, by the figures shown, the postal sorv fce i self-wustaining, 1 can urge with proprie ty the reducing of local postage rates to ¢ cent I am confident that such a change would result in a very considerable increase in the number of local letters mailed, and thas the free.delivary revenue would not be &) greatly im!mired ‘thereby as to provent it fzom again reaching the prescnt amount ia a few yenrs 1 also renew the recommendation of my predecessor, that the unit of weight in rating Iatters and sealed packages (first-class matter) be changed from one-half ounce o one ounce, SPEEDY DELIVERY, Since in large commercial cities where even the efficient delivery of the mails is not ade- quate to the demands of business enterprises requiring promot transaction, I recommend the use of a_special postage-stamp for lotters mailed and intend d for spacial and prompt delivery at_free delivery uffices, This stamp ehould be of the denomination of ten cents, und, when affixed to a letter, in addition to th proper postage charge, shoold insure for it as spoedy a delivery as poseible af er its recep- tion at uny latter-carrier office, This outside distributioa could be effected’ by employing messenger boys, at a rmall sala y, and in such numbers as the vircumstances should waerant. I am katisfied such an effort to accomodato the public would still further commend the free-delivery service to its patrous in the large cities where it is in operation. POSTMASTERS' SAUARIES. The gross receipts of the 2,823 presi dential offices tor the four quarters ended March 31, 1584, amounted to $33.031,647.33, or 74 8 por cent of the entire revenue of the department for the same period. The aggregate salaries of presidential postmasters amounted to $3,- 828,709, or 11 59 per cont of the gross receipts accruing at their respective officas, The appropriation fur clerks in postofti ces for the present fiscal year is inadsquats for the service, The department has been obliged to make reductions in ordor to keep the expendi- tures within the limitad appropriation. Al- though this reduction was necsssary. it was an apparent injustice to many postmasters whose allowances ware already to small. Tondorse as applicablo to postmasters tho secratary of war's expressions on the subject of paymastera® bonds, viz.: They should bo permitted by law as security the obligation of ome upproved guaranty company organized for the purpose of indemnifying emplovers in this moauner The revenue trom the rent of presidential postoftices is divided between the department and the poatmasters, In my opinion the law should be so amend- ed as to placo the evtirs box-rent revenue to the credit of the party whoprovides and main- tains the boxes, and who pays the rent of the room or the spaco oceuied by the boxes, A more praotical and a much more just svstem than the present would be one iu which the postoffice department should provide ths necessary box outfits, pay the rent of build- ings, and receive the full amount of box-rents in all the presidential «ffices, The postoffica dopartment neglests no pre- cantion for the protection of mails in transit, and provides, at no inconsiderable expense, the very best and most approved locks for muil bags that ars hundled only by is sworn agoats, waile the security of tho ma1 s placed in postoffice boxes accessible to the general public is 1eft to ths eaprice and simony of postmasters who, in msuy cases, ace not qual- ified to decide upon the merits of the diffureut locks, In my opiion the postoffics dop mont sheuld” bs authorizad to prescribe the kind of locks that may be placed upon post- office boxes, and postmas ers ahould be for- bidden to place any article of mail in a lock- box not secured by a Jock approved by the de- partme t. 1 am of the opinion that the government should provide buildings and proper failitics for the transaction of postal business, EXTENT AND COST OF TRANSPORTATTON, JUNE 30, 1884, istics of the inland mail service, , 1831, ure as fllows: The number of routes inthe star scrvice was 11,79 length of tho routes miles, the Bual transpo-tation, § miles at a of 55 050,941 baing abuut .28 couts per mile, ‘0o number of routes in the steamboat sor- yice was 117; the lengeh of the routes 15,651 the annual _transpostation, 1 annual cost of § conts per mile, at the | OMAIA, NEB., MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER i, 1884. vica will not attain to any higher geade of per fection until this legislation is effected FAST MAIL SERVICR, During the pact year the service on tha trunk lines has been very materially improved, For some years the New York Central and Hudeon River railway ard ths 1 ake Shoro {and Michigen Southern railway have been running a faet teain, leaving New York at 8 a and arriving st Toledo, Obi 450 p. m. of the followiug day, making nection with the fast maii train on the Wa. bash, St. Louis and Pacific railway, and a di- rect comnection for St Louis, The mails for Chicago and the weat, which formerly airived at Tol on this train, were hold there about three hours and taken on a slow train to Chicago, arriving there at Commencing Sunday rangement was made with the Michigan Southern rail uy whereby the train leaving New York 0 b, m. Wan continued through from Toledo to Chicago as a apecial fast mail teain, arriving at she lattor point at 12,85 a. m. In connection with this an arrapgement was mado with the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney railway company to put on a spocial fast msil train t) leave Chicago at 8 a m, anivingat Omaha st 7 p m. of the same day. This arrangement went into ef fect March 11, 1884, ‘Tha Chicago, Mi 884, an ar. ke Shoro & aukeo & St. Paul railway company aleo put on a fast mail train, leaving Chicago at 8 a. m., arriving at St. Paul at 3:30 p.m, and at Minneapolis at 4 p. m. This train commenced runving March 13, 1854, T connection with the fast muil tran on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railway, the Tifinois Central railway company changed the echedule of its wain lino #o as to make o close connection with the fast mail on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway, north and south, at Mendota, 1il, and extended its throvgh line trom Kreeport, 111, to Dubugne, Towa, conuecting at_the lattar point with the troin for La Crosse, Wisco. tin, These charges on the ssveral roads material- ly benefit all the wostern stat>s and terri tories, By a change of schedulo socured upon the Union and Central Puacific railways, which took place soon after the establishment of t o fast mail upon tae Chicago, Burlington an: Quincy railway, a gain of ono business duy was mado in the delivery of mails at San Francisco, The mail lesving New York by the evening dispatch arrived 1n San Francisco at 7:40 &, m. instead of at 8:50 p. m., as for- merly, Since that timo the sohednle has boen chauged, and this mail now arrives at San Francisco at 11:10 o, m . The mail for St. Paul and Minneapolis city delivery is assorted on the f.st mail cars ba. foro urrlval at those places and given to the carriers at the depot, thua enabling them to | FOUR Y:ARS HENCE. {Who Will Lead the arand 0id Party in 1668 Who Will Tarn the Battle Tide of And Rogain the Lost Ground? Vantage Quist Suggestions of ths Old Loader, Some Strong Demauds for J. &, Blaine, Prominent Men Who Endors the Legions to Victory, Blaine W Command Future BLAINE AND RE-NOMINATION, Spacial telogram to Tax Bre Cnicaco, November 30--An Tater-Ocean Now Yorl: special saye: Tha intensity of feel- ing that Bl.ine was really the choice of the people for president, but lost the election through accidental utterances at tha north, hns led to expressions from every guarter fa- vorablo to his renomination in 1855, Alrendy the quict undertow was in this directi m prior to his Augusta speech being rent’ to the coun- try, That swelled 1t to s tidal wave. His friond and political manager, 8. B, Elkine, receives daily mail here whi v, caves his time and attention so mush that L is oblized to use a secrotary, Three-fourths of tho letters are spontaueons declarations that Blaine is the choice of the writer for president in 1888, From all - over the country thero is the sume remarkable exprossion, In ten days past men like Senator Warner Millor, mako their delivery befora the close of the business day, This'is a material expedition, as this mail under the old arrabgoment would not arrive at tlmanJ\lawu until the next day. A change of schedulo was secured on the Northern Pacific railway, whereby its train left St. Paul on arrival of the fast mail, mak- ing a gain of one full day st Portland, Ore., and intermediate points, RAILWAY MAIL OLERK: There are ut tho prisent tihue about four thousand clerks in the railway mail service, many of them having been so employed a great number of years, Tho mmount of special study that these clerks have devoted to the duties of their offico would have made them proficient in almost any of the profos- sions of life, FOREIGN MAIL SKRVICE. Tho total weight of the mails dispatched to postal union countries, exclusive ot Canada, during the last fiscal 'year was 1,2 'L pounds, an incr er the preceding yoar, ter aud post-card ” mails was 811,232 grams, or 2,181,961 pounds, an in- crease compared with tho preceeding year of 16,412 pounds of letters and post-cards and 130,448 pounds of printed matter and samples, Compared with the weights for the fiscal yoar 1883 the percentage of incraase for lotters and post-cards is 8,41 por cent; for printed mattor and sample muile, 6 36 por cent, and for all the mails 5.8 per cor UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION, Tho adjourced westing of the Congress of the Universal Postal Uaion, ovigioally fixed to be held at Lisbov, Portugal, in May laxt, afterwards postponed until” October 1, last, and further postponed in consequence of the pravalence of cholera in portions of Barope, will meet 1 the city named on the st of Ieb- ruary next, for the purpose of improving tho systam of the Union in the light of the expe- rionce of its practical workings during the lus’ nine years Many important modifications of tho Paris Convention and rezulations are pro- posed for consideration and decision by tha ongresy, and the United States has spocial ntorest in most of them, 1on. William T, Otto and James S. Crawfo=d, Fsq., sujorin- tendont of foroign affairs of this acpartisent, have beon appointed the delegates to represen t the United States in said Congress —— THE TREANURY. CONDITION OF THE NATION'S WALLET, SHINGTON, November 2, ~The annual report of U'reasurer Wyman, of the United States, shows thut the net revenue of the government was less than 1883 by $19, 767 712 he decrease in receipts from cns- ¢ number of routes in the railroad ser- vice was 1,075 the length of the routes, 117, 160 miles; the anvual transportation, 142,541, 392 milos, at a cost of §19,0' sive of 83, for railway pstal clerks), being 3 cents por mile, were 4 908 coutractors for carrying mui's on inland routes. The numb r of supplied by mail messengers was 5. at wn annual costof 361 313, he uumber of special offi s was 2,423, each office being supplied by a spacial carrier whose compensation is not t» exceed two- thirds of the salary of the postmaster, An exhubit of the sirvice, with tabular stutement , appears in th report of the Sec ond Assistaut Postmaster-General, hereto an. nexed. STAI SERVICK, The star service is waintained with as much efficiency as i3 sttamable uader existing laws There is nee 1 of new legislation touching this branch of the service, and I approve and strongly commend to the favorable notice of congress the bill prepared to meet this need by the second assistant pastmaster-general, which will be found in_defail in his report, ~He I, from | mg experionce familiar with the needs of this wervice, having boen mstrumental in effecting already many reforms, and from these facts his comments upon the bill deserve due consideration. ‘The bill referrad vo aims to prevent the con- tinuance of certain wbuses in this brauch of the postal servic 1f it +hould becoma a law it would have the effsct of breaking up what is known as speculative bidding, which now secures, s shown by the report of the second Arsistant postmaster general, over thrae. fourihis f the routws annually adverti-ed.” groatly to the doetriment of tho service, It would throw the contracts for carrying the mails, in great part, iuts the hands of persons reridiog on, or o the viciaity of, the varions rout s to be let, resultivg in most instances in a v stly more efficiont service Theeo desir able ends, together with tne removal of some wedless restrictions which now work to the isadvantage of both the carriera aud the goverament, will b attained by the pas of this bill, whi s my unqualified appr o with Utoer previous ref in the star seryl The average ul five years pro eding 1554 han b with an average milaage of wilix, at a little over 8 conts per mil ¥or the yoar ended Jnue 3 , 1884 the cost of the star service was $5,099 941, with s mile- 1ge of 81,109,052 milne, at u sost of about o. Luother words, a largo in: . the milssge has bien accompanied with a very great reduction in the cost —the cost per wile beiog reduced nearly 24 per centumn tion 620 of the regulations of 1579, which prescribed a method of adjustiog compenss- ton for expedition, bas been resciuded, be cause it grew ont of an nowarranted construc. tlon of the statute and was dosmed unsafo, ‘Lhe recorumsudat ons of the second assist ot postinaster general in reference to the lew. islation that is ne dful are so moderate and yet 80 nocessary that 1 am certaiu thestar ser- PR carcass, per 1b @1%; ntelope, Corcian per lope waddies, per ib., e ‘ber dosen, 800 anass ner dozen. £3.00@ " T@vo; deér nadd 1b, F; 11@12; pi toms §19 G:0,007, in receipts from internal At neousdiour, 5, and in receipts from mis- 5 $8,840,218, from the ag- gregate of theso itoms should be deducted an increase of S1854810 in the receipts from the malos ' of public lands, loav. ivg » net veduction an stated sbove net expouditures nggregate $244 12 a decreaso from the amount in 1883, | 981,893, Surplus spplicable to reduc the public debt amounted to $104,4 decrenso of $28,4 5,818 from that of the pre- vious your. Itewsof expenditu es show decrease o8 follows: On account of war depart- ment, $0,481,779; interior de . : iuterest on publi it 84 There was an incroase 2,411 in expe ditures on sccount ot civil and miscellaneous and $2,009,161 in expenditures on account of the navy depactment. "The disbursing offi of the United States had to their credits the hooks of tho treasury at the close of the yoe - 42,4689 0. "Tha statement of usote and iabilities for Saptember 0, 1851, sh geueral balance was reducad from $16 403, in 1883, to $141,625,062, in 1834, a ra uc tion of $13,7 7 400, The aggregate amonnt of gold and rilver coin and builien held by th treasary has incraasad from 1883, to 5,216 207, in 1884, wu increaso $42, 705,487 The gross nssets increused from 06,119,817, i 1883, to %510,600, 2.8, an iucrease of 863,570,431, Krom November 1, 1883, t) November Lst, 1834, the rexerve de o § 545 to §118,070, andiog at the ¢ y certiticates smounting to §12 , W01, an increase of 832,274,860, year, the amount held f crensed from 1. leaving actually outstanding 59 actual increase of $24,885, 325, of rtandard a'tver dollurs o ine 1,- During the the treasury in- 140, to 8°4.384.08 " thus 07,011, an The amount to Soptember B0, 1884, was 182 85,820, of which the treas. ury held 142 819,400, Of this amount $ 044,881 wan for redemption of silver cortif cates outstanding, The amount in irculation was 30,501,958, or ‘about 218 per cent, of the 'total coinage. Ak ueuw, whe amawat outstanding reachied the bizhest point in Dicewber, when it exceeded $41500 , 000, un +garogate vever before reached The decrease L. JUne was not 4 great ax in previ ous years, probably owing to the rcareity of one and two dollar id on Septem £0, the amount »us greater than date 1n 1883 Daring fiscal yoar £126, 2 1 national bank notes waré pressuted 80,717 for vedwmntion, being 2288 per cent moro thun e procediog year, This luceonus r flsct e the conditich of the mercantile and monetary affuirs of the countey, s shown by reports, “iLcreasing the number of business failures and decreasing the amount of clesring house transactions, | Che O)l Market, New Youk, November ‘The market was buoyant aud rose 24e iu the worning, It is rumored that many operators have been cought heavily short of Jw being twisted. loa. por 1b., 11! proof. 117 per pon 7@ 80; ante] b whiskics, 100 - 1 na b rairie chick- 1ins—lwported, 4 5086 00; $1.00@1.50; ‘@x 00, ack rabbits, | Huss — market and are dcught to prohibit au ine blended, 1 50 Twported, 4 500 00; Emery A, Storrs, of Chicago, Senator Chafiee, of Colorado, Alexander Sullivh, of Chicago, H. E. Porsons, of Virginia, Senstor Halo, of Maine, J. 4. Long, of Ohio, W, C, Andrews, of Now York, and Colonel WYE. Sunms, of Virginia, bavegiven vofce here to the popular cry. They neither attempt to boom Blaine for 1855 or indorse the movement in his direc. tion, but have eimply stated that it is an evi- dent fact that the psople are ‘{.iu Blaine’s friends. —t——— GENERAL LOG AN, HE RXPIESSES HIMSELY ON THE REPUBLIOAN DEFRAT, New York, November 20,—Goneral John A. Logan is at the Fifth Avenvé hotsl. He arrived this morning, and will gomain over Thanksgiving, when he will joun | Mrs, Logan in Washiogton, There was a number of cullers at Goneral L gan’s room tiffsafternaon, and he surprised all his friends vith the light- heartsd and cheery manner in wiizh he spoke of his recent defeat. i I do not think Logan would {feel half as badly,” said a friend of his this edbuing, “if it were not fyr the fact that he w'§ beuten by such au old copperhead as Hend: gies,” To night Gon. Logan said Inugnmil bave nothing to gay to the press. We are whinpad, and that’s all thorets of it. For myself,” he added, “I a good deal like the man who stubbed his toe, and sit down on astump ) nueso it. Al his frisnds came around to sympathize with him, plying him with all sorts of questions about how hs felc, ‘It huris pretty bad, don't it?' they asked, but thy fellow was a little too much onenpiad squoczing his toe to aunswer. Finally ha blurted out: ‘The worst of it is Jam too big 'y and the thivg hurts to bad to laugh * And that,” eaid Gen, Logan, “is the way I feol ” After y, “I ection Ger, Logan went dv t his tarm in gouth rn Lilinois to ro.uperate. The plase containg about {01 seres of well tivated land, and tho general saya that after the 4th of March he expectsto beoome & ranger iu earnest. Gen, Logan attricutes the detest of his party to the utterancas of Durchard rather than auything else, He eays the Irish- American . in Chicago except the most Litter demozrate, ha t always supported hin aud thut ho wak never run for any offica in Illinois when hed fail.d to cairy Chicsgalby 6,000 to 7,000, This year the inaj rity ran down to 8,000 and numbers of Iri-limen had told Lim that they had voted against bim for the fit tima. He attributea all this to Burchard's re- marks. By B THE BLACK VOT SO METHING 10 5AY OF THE DENKPICIAL EFFEO'S ACCRUING TO THE NEGRO FROM Tk REOENT KLECTION, Special Telegram to Tig B, New York, November 30.-Goyernor Col- quits of Georgia, in o lettor to the Commer- cial Advertiser, writes: “‘Let me bay as to the colored citizen in Gieorgia, he i safe in the hands of the democricy, that now oven the tomptation to deal unfairly by his voto is rumored and that from this day forth he counts ay a living factor in southern politics, “Why, now,” will you_ask, “‘and not._heroto- fore?” Beciuse beretofore the whole fnflucs and teschings of the goveroment Itself were called into active service to keep the negro vote as a constant wenao before our eyes, It was enough t0 iy to the colered votur, ho I3 o domocrat, We snatched you out of his hends ag slaves and made you freemen; ho would reinstato you to-moirow if he could, Of course, the effect of this was to keep the races apart politically, and the past davger in which the colored democrat wan forced to live among his race detorred a man of aoy fesliog from woeking to draw him from the crowd in which republican influcoces bad impounded hi Now he s accessible to the logio of deeds which he shall seeand feo!, and eat and drink, und withal shal) be clothed in the integrity in which his civil rights are sure to bs upheld by us, GOVERNOR COLQUITT H — THE SPANISH TREATY, PESSIMISTIC VIEWS ON THK BUBJECT FROM THE KOUTHKRN HTATES. Special Telegram to tho Bk, WasninGron, November 80,—Senstor b- won, of Lousana, maiataing that there in very xeludo the eugar product of ctaer countri n Cuba, and ho did not beliove it would cheapen the price of sugar to the consumer in this country, He referrad to the Hawaiian treaty as proof of this, eay- treaty would ing it did not benefit the consumer here, 'S0 that,” said he, “supposine the Spanish gov ornment +hoild not take advantage of the opportunity to impose the fnternal rovenue tax, wo would bo really presentiog Cuban planters with £30,000,000 which we counld ralse as custom tax on their sugar. That would make Ouba the richest wland fu tho world,” e — . AMERIOA AND sPAIN, A RECIPROCITY TREATY TWEEN THR UNITAD ENGLISH RIVALRY, Speolal Telogram to Tik B LoN1y November 80, Mcr, Foster passed through London yosterday, having signed the commercial treaty of the United Statos with Spain, Ho sails to-doy for Now Yotk Log- lish diplomatists avow that this troaty, if rat- ified, prevents the possibility of the desired Angl - Spanish treaty, beoanso it will bo fme poesible for Spain to eraut similar conceskions tothe two powers and open Caban poirts both to English and American goods It is expected that the treaty will excite hostility against Lomsinna sugar planters, tut will en- Iist the support of yrotectionists beoause, in the firet place, by abolishing $80,000,000 of sugar duties, it puts an end to farther appeals for reducing the covenue, and socondly, opens the Cuban markets to me ican manufac tuvers of cotton, iron, mand numerous other poods, theraby securivg a practical Am. ericar: monopoly, and proceeding on - the pro- tootionist dootring of wsing American tariff as a means-of obtaining a foreign market for Am- erican goods on favorable terms, e — AMEKIOAN FLOUR, HOW T MARKETS OF SPAIN ARE OPENIS 70 THIS GHEAT PRODUCT, Special Telegram o the Brk: WasHiNgToN, November 30,—The report recoived by Secretary Frelinghuysen from Congul Horatio J. Sprague, at Gibraltar, staten that flour s the on'y Amorican product for which there appears to be a market thore. Supplies are beine imrflrh'd direct from Now York through by British and Jtalian steam vessols, Tho demand has only sprune up since the appearance of cholera in France, Consul McKay at Teneriffo, in the Canary Talands, says that French flour is beginning to b looked upon suspiciously. The public have of lato years favored the American article, Ay Maraeilles now, owing to tho cholera remaiu- ing there, iy entirely sbut out of this market, Iatize quentities of flour are expect from the United States, The result will be a perma- nent increase in the conswmption of American our, FINALLY ARRANGRD 1E: STATES AND SPAIN i up —— LOWELL AND OLEVELAND, MINISTER LOWELL K8 SOME FOOLISH CHARGES AGAINST HIN, Loxnox, November 30, [Boo Spocial,]— Mintster Lowell said: “Pleaso toll my friends in the Usit:d States that Tam not likely to commit such a silly act »s to run away from my post because o chief mavistrato of the opposite po itical falth has been elocted, 1 Dpresumo my sucesssor will be appointed and confirmed in dus season, and when ho arrives hore, I hopn ta athe hunor of welcsming him and aifording hih whatever wervices may boinmy power to wake tho boginning of bis duties easy and agreeabls " —e— = kxplanation, N, lowa, November 20.—The failurs of B, D. Brown, the grain dealer, who igned yestorday, does mot effect the Bur- lington and Mississippi olevator in tho city, which is managel and controlled by a stock company of New York capitalists, tho cle- vator doing « largo businoss as & public ware- house. The firm of B. D. Brown & Co., erain dealers of this city, of which A, C Pinkham is the resdent partner, assigued yestorday to Mr. Hubbard, the Harrison elevator, for- merly operated by this firm, since Septembor has been operated by Jno,’ T, Gerry and N. . Derby & Co., of thiscity. The Burlington elevator is owned and operated by N, R, De by & Co., and should not b coMounded with the Burlington & Missiesippl, which was built by B. D, Brown, and with which ho was identified, s A Plucky Yankce. Niw Yok, November 30,—A mad dog mado the peoplo szattor at the corner of Hous- (on and Mulberry straots this afternoon, Tn the midst of the excitoment o woll-dressod contloman made a rush bid animal, cked him up by the naps of the nock w cut his thront with » pocket knifo nsying q etly ut the samo time: *“Tha's the way wo doin Massachusetts,” — A Parisian Heroine, Paws, November 29.—Public sympathy for Madame Hagues, who shot her traducar, i# intensificd by the fuct that hoth Hagues and wifo devotealy nursed the cholera suf- forory, the vrovalonce of that epi- domic « illos. Lo Pays considers \bo nd charves the entiro press to uphold her, 8hy has asleed the privon suthor ities that sho may be provided with material for modoling in clay, e The Redistribution Bitl, Loxpos November 29 —The goverument rodistribution bill diffors very much from the original draft of the ministers. 1t extonds the principle of singlo memborship to equal elec toral districty, ruises the populution standard for cons'icuents wich two mambors and gives agreat Increass in the number of mombors feom London and other populous centors. The radicals consider tho alteration satisfactory Chaplio and Lowther, conseryatives, are fori- ing & group to oppose tho present arrange: ment, e Another Fatal Collision, Meupnis, Tenn., November 20, - A freight train on the Chosapoake & Obio Houthern railway collided with the west bonnd two miles oast of Honnings thin morniog s 4:15, Eneineer Jack Moore, wnd Brakeman Robert Koely were illod fnstantly, Doth ficenen were burisd under the wrock and will probably die. Both trains wore badly wrecked, i Cnicano, N - oral man- agurs of tho Missouri line« held an all forenoon sesniun again to-day, but reached no mettle. oot of Lhe present passenger rate wa One of the chief ovutacles in the way of the settle- ment is the demand of the Chicugo & Alton to reduce all passongor triffs to u busin of Lwo cents a wile, Auother sossion will be held vhis alternoon, - — little reciprocity in the Bpuuish treaty, He says the bonefis is about all on the side of Cuba, Coatinuiog, he esid: “There are about 200,000 consumere of our products in Cuba, Now this treaty proposes to give them advantage of trade with our 69,000 000 of people, and in retura wa may supply their 510,000 with ke of our producte, Desides, the people of Cuba do not, and will not use woy of oue products, They do not use ¥ plows, mowing wnchioes, and msnufuo tu ed that sort, They live mostly fruits and consume very little flonr, Thore no probibition in the troaty agaigys il imponition by the Spasich goveramgnt of in. tornal revenue tex Now we collect twe cents per pound on sugar. Say we geb from it §30,100,000, If wo admit it free, may not the Bpanvh government levy an internal 16vou £1x of two conts per pound on sugar, aud thus collect in their treasury the $30,- 00,060 we now put in ours. The treaty y internal revenue tax by Eenator Uibson added that the ‘Bpain " doweetic, 1 40 Now England, 50 | upon Kidge's Foud thau uton sl Ji RO N w g The Storey Estate, Novembor 29 —Judge Tuley, in the circuit court this moruing, decidaed the application for the sppolatient of a receiver for the estate of Wilbur ¥, Storey, grantiog the potition and namiag Foraco A, Hurlbut as receiver, He gajolned bim, however, from interforing widn the editorial staff or policy of vhe Timos newspaper, unless under apecial order uf the court, Cit1cauo, —— Yankeoe rprise in Africs, LoxnoN, November 30,—[Bea Special,]— In the Congo conference the indications are that shrewd Americans st the back of Stauley will get most of the substantisl venofits, and that England or Portugal will got few of thew. —————— Bus ness Fallures, W Youk, November 290, ~Baer, Bon & Nk 3 Preferences $110,000, )y browers, failed. reared i GUeT 10008 avold Bheumatiam, hat flesh s he'r oras's do Belta, By 80 GOMK yuu wiw B fuoraurs Biou ldnoy Troubles wnd other iis 1o not delsy, but oal et one Shmbiued.” 1)) netlot s gar childreo grow up weas | o sad examine bolte, No. 1438 Douglas stresh, <t THE Inn How onr Spac MESSIBLE SOLAV, NUSSIAN WHEAT I8 YORCING AWERICAN AL PRODUCTS FROM EUROPEAN MAKKRTS, 1 tolegram to Tre Brs, Wasiinarox, November 80, Consul Gen- eral Ceamer furnishes the state department an interesting statoment in reeard to the danger of Russian wheat driving American wheat from the markets of Switzorland and southern Germany, Cramer says: “Rich harvests the present season in Ruesia as well as masses of | wieat stored 1 varlous parts of that country, espacinlly in Odessa, and reduction of through freight tarifl, leavo little doubt that Russian wheat will supersede American wheat Switzerland and south Goermany, Russian at doalors strain every nerve to supply the markets of central and southern Europe with this article, Statistics show that oexport of American wheat docrassed whila its produc tion has been fncroasad, There must, there- fore, b & nocossary fall in ita price. What fs to bo done i order to furnish an outlet for eurplusage? Both its price and ocost of teans. portation must be reduced. Let american wheat exporters send competont persons o Europe, whoso duty it shall bo to carefully study tho wheat markots of Eaeland, G wmany, Switzerland, ote., as well as the' que tion of transportation of wheat from the ports of Genon, Havre, Marsailles, Antwerp and Rottordam to the whoat centers, intorior and farm ¢ mmorcial convections with such cen- tora by offeriag & good quality of wheat at least at the same o a8 Russian wheat can by purehased for, e CLOBN LOUISE, RESHING REVIVAL OF SOME COURT BCANDAL ~THE MARQU.S OF LORNE AND THR PRIN. CKEN LOUISK, Special Telegram t5 the R, LoNDoN, " November 30,—Soclety has taken advantage of the political lall to discuss with oven greater eagornass than usual the troubled household of the queen and distinguished por sonages who have beon dragged into the law conrts, The recont visit of the Duke of Ar- gyl to tho queen fs untversally asvocinted with tho strained relations between the Marquis of Lorno and the Priucoss Louise, The scandal of the ostentatious keoping apart of the two youne people has grown too public, When the Princon Louiso is in London the marquis ia in tho Highlands, and when ho returns to the metropolis Lonite flies to Germany, The queen has ordered the princass to report horself at Windsor, and some arrangement is contemp ated, under which the ill-mated pair will make someconcession to appearances by occasionally stopping und r the same roof, ‘The queen ix wea tine uomercifully lashed by Labouchero with lus savage pen.” Karo- line Bauer's Mamoira continuo to supply somo_torrible materials n{ the description the afford ot the family of the queen’s sainted hushand, and **Lobby™ doles out weekly ex- tracta each worse than tho other, and far from unedifying pictures of brutal royaltion, —— HOSTILE ALLIES, ND HIS POSSTILE BUCCEBSOR 00k~ GLADKTONE LINK FOI MUTUAL ADVANTAGES, Special Telegram to THE Bex. Loxnon, Novewber 89.—Tho secret of the negotiations botween Gladstone and Salisbury i woll kept. In spito of the a'armist teln gram in the Pall Mall Gazette of last night tho general conviction s that tho two leaders ave practically come to an sgrecment. A grent fact which made the compromise possible was tho unoxpocted churacter of the redistri 0 rehieme which the ccuwervative leaders were inclined to nconpte Tie ministers were astonshed o find that in the sama way ny Lord Salisbury had swatlowed the dumocracy. withont even i wry faca, he was prepared fo the schemo of & redistribution 2lmost more radical than the plan of tho prime ministor himeelf, Tho meoting of pacisment Mondag, when a great scheme is to be unvelled, is looked forward to with mors e otk than any st Trero will bo tari le weeping and w venty mombers who will find without constit. uencies in tho futurs, but there is no doubt that thoy will havorto awallow their disgust, for s combinati of leadors will recure the paksaga of any bill agaiust all possible condi- tions, o ——e——— GERMANLA'S GRASP, GROWING COLONIAT, AMBITIONS OF I LAND OF THE RHINE, Special tolegram to Tk Dre: LoNpox, November 80 ~Tromendous gon- wation s caused by the rth German Gazette, Prince Bisin; of lett ra ¢ d at Cape 'l urgiog upon Gorn nnoxation of t tory, hitherto occu, Bogland, in Africa. ‘Phiere is o mspicion that thess letters were written in the impe chaneollery. and are park of the machivory which is oxpscted to boom the next Bmnperor of Ge ws foster- father of the colonial eaterpriso. ‘Tho letters, atall ovents, are siguiticant mgns of che tmes, and their potency has beon onhanced by Lo ters which appearod In the St. James Gazette from a man edisorially vouched for us a rich and prowinent colonist. Ho ix an English- man, and profestes thy warmest loyalty to the English crown and constitution, bat says that tho Joyalists in Cape Culony utterly distrust 1ho hol over sloquentappen gland's protection to hor wanderiog chi dren by s.yicg 1t wll requts but very litle moro to mike them s ek sheltor in tho aros of Bismarc’, who is ab logat pow- erful enough to uefend them, v rm— MORMON MISSIONARIE KHAMENUL BPECTACLE OF A OEWTAIN CAMERIOAN INEIITUTION" ABROAD, tal Telegram to Trx Beg, LoxvoN, November $0,~The punishment inflicted on the Bwiss Mormons, so far from having diminished the energy of (the propa- goadists, seotm to have stimulated the zeal of converts, 1o n village near tho Rhonuo the people embraced the tenets of Mormoni-m on s, They propored to fo m a Utah In mintature, to put aside theie anciont fuith and ® 10pt the now gosp Mennwhilo the police wro witching th of apostlen at Bermo, The police are especially vigilaag in their surveils lanco over an Amcrican named Canuon and publication in the Herio He concludis with an Tk ab these nitive nwined Slasl, 16 is probable t w0 won will woon e arrested an expelled., it GALVES AMBITION, DESPEBATE ENDEAVOLS OF THE TEXAH METROP- OLIS TO HECURK THE DELPENING OF IT8 HAR» »ow, GarvestoN, November 30.—The sggreg ate material wealth snd populbtion of th twenty states and territorios whose arcg 15 natural to the port of Galveston as J gep water outlots, as will appear Loanory in the ‘‘deep water edition” of the Liaily News, aro as follows: Wealth, 84 populatioo, $11,216,« 00,000, ‘Tneso figures embrace the eutire oifie wlops, also Colorado, Nibrasks and nuesota, but donot include Louisiana or any territory east of the Mikalssippi, [ — DI ITARIES AT THE DIRAMA, OLEVELAND AND AKIHUL INVITED TO ATTRND THE ACTOLS' FUND BANEWIT, Nuw Youk, Novombor 80.~The managers of thy actors’ fund benefit wet this afternoon ut the nd opera houss and passed a resolu- tion thauking Governor Cleveland for his ac- coptauce of their invitation to be present at the benofit on Thursday, and for his kind words xegarding the profession. Tho gove croor wnd perty will cocupy three boxes on the ceasion, The same.comu that waited on the goveruor sturted to-kight for Washing- ton to 1equest Presidont Arthur's presence at th perfoimance, Loxnox, November 20.—A slight shosk of cartliuake was fult at Rome and Marseliee yeatorday, THE MASKED | The Terrible aud Mysterions Pestilence in Eastern Kentucky, Appalling Death Rate of the Diseasa. Paople Fret :1 in Their Awful lictisa. and the Ground 7ith Drouth The Two=Fo| :iorrorn of Famine an- #=lague, - Crops Blieh Parche JlequIy| The €eat of the Scourge in the Backwoods Monntain Dis- tricts—Help Needed, THE KENTUOKY PLAGUE, LovisviLLe, Novembor 20, — Arthur H, Loomis, traveling ropresentative of a New York firm, is In the city to-day, having just roturned from o trip through the plague- stricken district of eastern Kentucky. Mr, Loomis eaid: “I was four days in Martin county without disposing of & sngle article. The peonle are absolutely crazy, They have 1o use for anything but coffins. A great deas has been printed in tho newspapers about the situation in Martin and adjoining counties but it has boen but an imperfect reflox of the exlating deplorable condition. I know of in- stances where wholo families died within a woek; whero neighborhioods have been swal- lowed upin the grave; where one man has, survived to bury his family and his friends, aud then been found dead with no living creaturo near_him, except, in fome cages, foithful dog. Flocks of shoep and droves of cattle that used to browao on the hillsides and along the range of the Cumberland now lio dead and rotting, while pebbles glisten on the bottom of the creek beds, ‘ells and cisterns have boen drained to the bottom, and springs ave no longer to be relied upon for a supply of water. The ground is literally rched, and whero vegstables formerly toomed luxuriautly there 18 nothing but de- oay. Thousands aro said to have died within the past two weeks, " “‘What, in the opinion of the natives, Is the oansa of this fatal calamity?” ‘It is very evident that tha chinf agent of death1s starvation. Tho paopla in those dis- tricta are almost without communica ion with the outside world. An occasional d#unmer, like mysolf, strays among them once a year and a few of the most prosperous visit some cities onoe in o lifotime, A good sosson briogs with 1t bountiful crops. Wool and other native products are rudaly manu‘actured into clothi /g, but when the o ope £ail thou the order of things are roversod. [ am spoakiag now of tho backwoods neizhbo hoods, whers tho plague has rogad with the geeatest fatali- ty. anrnud while 1 Maetin county that the crop yield for two successive sexsons had bien a failure, The nutives ara without woney and without meaay to purhase brosd. The shutting off of tha water supply has browght to the surface & poisonous hiquid, Fuun-hed for water, the peop o drenk, and the consequenc wis death, The firek sfanptoms are violout gripings and afeer this a saging hoadacho, A hot fover cnmes anashe, pationt noually lingers two days, cuffering un- told agonies bofore death, 1 wudorstano shat auveral poysiciang Bave bien comuissioned by the staty to muke o careful wnalysis of the water and desenbo the poisonans ingredients, Ralisf bas reeontly besn dospa.. ied to Martin um the neizhboring conoti Before T left thero was a sliht rainfall, witi o prospect of eontinued falling. The opinion provails that the plogue hus pansed through its moss dan- gerous stages and is now on the wane, During tho last two days of my etwy I hoard of very few deaths,” Dol On to China, Pans, Novewmber 20.—After the vuts in the chamber of deputies yestorday favoring rous prosecution of the Chiness war, the roment isuad orders quickening the de- spatel of reinfurements to Adwiral Courbet und Genoral Del Islo, e Iatal Collisio Cran Ravios, I, Novembor ‘9 -—~The Burlington, Cedar Ripids and Northern live trald of cight cara this morning, ran tho Chicago and Northwostorn train, , killing fircman ¥ i o, Benjamin, I into making & bad wr Phillips and badly i the en; Telegraphe Novembar 29.—Ths obtained certain o intends to continuo the forcomentf will be sent to Pans, ways: Cho cabinot has Kknowlodg that Chi war aud 15,000 v China, Rl e S R A Mescengor from Gordon, Loxvoy, November 29.—The messonger from Gencral Gordon arrived hore, bringing dispatches elght weeks old, After loavin IChartoum tho messonger wan captured an detal some time at Shendy, A Alonso's Dander Up, Mavuin, November 20,—The governmeént threatened to suspend the town council and woveral of the Learned societios for passing & vote of sympathy with the university studente, Many sub-mayors of the city resigued, ot Frotection in France, Paws, November 20.—At & orlsinet council to-duy it was decided to mate the proposed croaso of duty on foreizn grain two france per centoer, JYSPEPSIA ‘Uauses 1ts vietims to be miserable, hopeless, confused, and depressed in mind, very frrita- Dle, languid, and drowsy. 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