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RJJ- ^ KT; i f 9*1* sntf Publisher. ILLINOIS y„ ' ; < IK NEWS CONDENSED. WWHttWIONAL PROCEEDINGS. TlntrM Redskin of the Forty-eighth Con- CrMSeoevened at Washington at noon, on Mon- day of Dooember. The Senate wu flsllnil to order by Mr. Edmond), the President pro torn., who administered the oath of office to twenty-five new or re-elected members. Iiaud- mtm bouquets adorned the desks of Messrs. Vootbees, Harris, Lcgan, Manierson, Blair and Wilson. A floral rice representine the coat-of- arnw of North Carolina was presented to Sena­ tor Ransom. A sword in red and white flowers Stood oil the desk of Sen itor Mahone, and three torse baskets of flowers were sent to Senator Riddle berger. No business whatever was transacted. The House organized by the elec­ tion of John G. Carlisle as Speaker, he receiving 191 votes against 112 for Keifer sad 3 tor Robinson, of Massachusetts. On being escorted to the* chair Mr. Car­ lisle expressed his thanks for the honor con­ ferred upon him,- and asked the aid of members in facilitating business. He was presented by Kentucky ladles with a sravei in the shape of George Washington's hatchet, composed of flow* era and satin, with an inscription in illuminated letters. The House not- into a wrangle over the Manning-Chalmers certificate from Mississippi, and failed to oomtriete its organization. AMONG the measures introduced in the Senate on the 4th Inst, was one of Mr. Ingalls' to re­ move oertain limitations in the arrears of pen­ sions act. Mr. Beck presented a bill for the removal of all disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment, and Mr. Edmunds one to provide for the further protection of colored citizens. Mr. Sherman intro­ duced a bill to give national banks a circu­ lation eqn4l to 90 per cent, of the market value of their bond deoosits. Mr. Edmunds presented an act for the construction of four trunk lines of postal telegraph radiating from Washington. Mr. Blair offered a bill for a bureau ot labor statistics and to make eight hours a day's work. Mr. Logan handed in an act to appro­ priate $50.«K»,000 for the education of children, and another to provide pensions for Union prisoners in the late war. Mr. Van Wyck introduced a bill to foroe railroad corporations to pay within sixty days the cost of surveying lands to which they are entitled, and Mr. Slater another to repeal the Northern Pacific land grants. Mr. SewOil reintroduced the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. The President's message was read. The Republican Senators held a caucus, after adjournment, and de­ cided to await the arrival of Senator An­ thony, who has been on a sick-bed, before electing a new set of officers. In the House of Representatives the delegates from the Territories were sworn in. A resolution was adopted that the Committee on Elections report whether Manning or Chalmers Is entitled to be sworn as a member from Mis-•> sissippi. Some debate took plane on the contest between Mayo and Garrison, from the First dis­ trict of Virginia. The President's message was delivered and read to the House. Ma. BDTLIR introduced a bill in the Senate, at its session on the 5th inst., to repeal the in­ ternal revenue laws and abolish the system. Mr. Boar presented a joint resolution of the Legis­ lature of Massachusetts in opposition to convict labor on public works. Mr. Cullom pre­ sented a measure to place the legis­ lative power of Utah in the hands ol the Governor and a Legislative Council ap­ pointed by the President. Mr. Walker intro­ duced a bill to Indemnify Arkansas for swamp lands sold by the United States since 1857. Mr. Logan handed In a bounty land bill affecting everv honorably-discharged soldier or sailor of the late war. Mr. Blair introduced a joint res­ olution for a constitutional amendment to pro­ hibit the manufacture or sale of liquors. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution for a military academy west of the Mississippi, to educate In­ dians for i he army. Mr. Hoar introduced a bill providing for the nse of a patented ballot-box and counting device. In the House of Repre­ sentatives Mr. Randall raised objections to a deficiency appropriation of $30,000 for printing the Supreme Court records. The death of Thomas H. Herndon, of Alabama, was an­ nounced. and an adjournment was taken. TH* Senate was in session less than two hours on the 6th Inst., and accomplished very little in the way of legislation. Petitions were presented from the Legislature of Nebraska to so amend the law as to force railroads to take out patents on their laud grants, and from the Astoria Chamber of Commerce to forfeit lands granted to the Oregon Central railroad. Mr. Garland introduced a bill to release the Mem­ phis and Little Rock road from conditions which unjustly affected it, and to adjust differences on account of customs duties on iron. Mr. Caaaeron presented a measure to restore to the market certain lands in Minnesota and Wis­ consin reserved, for dams and reservoirs. Mr. Groome handed in an act to construct the Mary­ land and Delaware free ship canal as a means of defense. Mr. Lapham proposed an amend­ ment to the Constitution giving women the right of suffrage. The House was in session but a lew minutes, and accomplished noUHBK both fcooses adjourned over to the 10th. r ir:- l" ,Jl* v"* V s -. ' 1 t -, - v k ' - - . *1 1° 1 fa * ^ , ;ir| I> squartw and severing outside communlea. t on. Tbe storm also impeded railway business, and the damage is heavy Several horw-thteves were recently lynched in Brown county. Neb....The Police Com­ missioners who have been on trial at St. Louis charged with conspiracy wore acquitted last week. TUB SOUTEfc BOBBERS attempted to wreck and plunder a train on the Memphis and Little Rock railroad. The scene of attack was twenty-flvc miles west of Memphis. The train officials made a prompt defense with flroarms, and the robbers, after shooting at the engineer, fled into the tall timber....A Danville (Va.) dispatch says the grand jury of the hustings court, charged by Judge Itliickwell with investigating the circumstan­ ces of the election riot or Nov. 3, after a session of nearly two days, reported thejr had no presentments to make. / IT IS stated in a dispatch from St. Louis that prominent parties in Texas will soon bring suit in the Court of Claims at Waging ton to recover the value, of slaves emancipated during the late War. The action will be based chiefly on oertain clauses in the State constitution, which were approved and indorsed by Congress at the time of an­ nexation, and which, it is claimed, make the Government of the United States liable for slave property, The plaintiff in the case was strong and very pronounced Union man during the war, and the proposed action is In­ dorsed and will be pushed by some of the best lawyers in Texas Three negro children were burned to death in Columbia county, Ga. The parents went to church and locked the, children in a cabin. MRS. LA I R V BIALL, the Baltimore woman who killed her two children and then cut her own throat, thereafter refused to take all nourishment and has died of starva­ tion.... An earthquake lasting forty-eight seconds was experienced at Roucnden Springs, Ark. It broke stoves and crockery and loosened rocks in the railway cuts. WASHINGTON. THE public debt decreased during the month of November $1,731,678, and, de ducting the cash in the treasury, now aggre­ gates $1,509,780,060. Appended is the official debt statement issued oh the 1st inst.: Public debt: Four and one-half per cents....... 250,000,000 Four per cents 737.624,100 Tliree per cents 299,093,250 Refunding certificates 318.450 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total Interest-bearing debt.... .$1,901,040,800 Matured debt 6,045,"S5 Legal-tender notes. .......$ 346,739,816 Certificates of deposit....... 14,165,000 Gold and silver certificates 187,715,731 Fractional currency 6,990,303 Total without interact. $ 655,910,850 Total debt (principal)...... ».$l,8fi3,596,985 lotaHnterest 10,954,588 Total cash in treasury B64.766.513 Debt, less cash in treasury 1^09,786,060 Decrease during November 1,721,676. Decrease of debt since June 30,1883. 41,806,146 Current liabilities- Interest due and unpaid... I>e!;t en which interest has Interest thereon Gold and silver certificates U. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit THE EAST. BICHABD WAGNEB, employed in a mill at Dedham, Mass., recently returned to Poland on a visit to his mother, and was sent to Siberia for having fled from Russian mili­ tary service. A DOUBLE frame house in Fifty-fourth street, New Tork, occujtied by forty-seven families, was burned, three children perish­ ing in the flames Salmon, the New Hamp­ shire fiend, has confessed the murder of Mrs. Ford and the Ruddy family at Laconia. AT Philadelphia the semi-centenary of the organization of the American Anti- slavery society was celebrated. Job Purvis, one of the original members, opened the meeting, and John G. Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Garri­ sons, Parker and Pillsbury, and others sent letters... .Some grocers' clerks in New York formed an organization to rob their em­ ployers, each member being required to ob­ tain $125 per month and deposit it with the secretary. JAMES NUTT, the youth who killed tbe villain Dukes, was arraigned for trial at Union town. Pa. The town was thronged with people. Senator Yoorhees, with four Other eminent lawyers, appeared for the defense. Eighty jurors were sum­ moned, but only three were found oompetent to serve in this trial. Thereupon the defense prayed for a change of venue, and the case was transferred to the City of Pittsburgh. It seems that the people of Union- town have taken sides in the matter, many being as bitter against Nutt as the majority are earnest in his defense.,. .Malarial and typhoid fever prevail in Yale College, two Students having died of the latter malady. The faculty are unaware of the causes for this visitation, the sewerage and drainage being perfect....Six mills at Fall River, Mass., have been swindled out of $80,000 on bogus bills of lading on Joseph Lohnstein, of Sherman, Texas. THE WEST. BIGHT of way through Indian Terri­ tory is to be asked of Congress by the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe road, at a compensa­ tion of fW per mile to the tribes owning the land. AT Prescott, Arizona, Saturday, in Judge. French's court, after the Attorney General and State's Attorney had indulged In an angry altercation, the defendant in the pending suit, named McAtee, drew his knife and fatally stabbed an old man named Moore; then attacked Editor Beach, and was about to plunge his weapon into the court reporter when a bullet from a spectator's revolver pen­ etrated his spine. McAtee and Moore are dead--William Newell, of Eau Claire, Wis., has discovered a silver mine thirty-five miles from that city. 1'ROF. MITCHELL, organist of the M. E. Church at Canton, Ohio, has been dls- cijprged from that position for taking a worn « * an of ill-repute to an entertainment . Frank James was arraigned at Kansas City (or the Blue Cut train robbery. His trial Is get for Jan. 14, and his bail was fixed at •*000. IN the United States Court at Jeffer­ son City, Mo., an important verdict was rendered in an Insurance case. Tbe plaintiff's bouse, insured against fire and lightning, was destroyed by a cyclone. He brought •Hit to recover, maintaining that electricity was the potent power in cyclones. The de­ fense asserted that wind was the destructive agent, and both parties placed meteorologists M the stand to prove their claims. The Jury found for the insurance company, thus ig­ noring the electricity theory in cyclones. KEWARDS amounting to $5,000 have gjggen offered for the detection of the murder- of Jacob Crouch and other members of his family, near Jackson,oMich Soft snow falling for twelve hours at Denver, Col., ad­ hered to tbe wires, causing them to assume the dimensions of cables. A windstorm sprung up, when hundreds of poles gave way i|P<tAr their great weight, blocking a dozen foreigners at Canton that war with France it immtneat, and warns neutral nations to ob serve treaties and rules for international law. Pen* Yu Lin is preparing for the defense of Canton....At a meeting of the Irish National league in Dublin, Mr. Biggar char­ acterized John O'Connor Power as the James Carey of Irish politics.... For abuse, of the Liberal press, Editor Phil­ lips, at Berlin, challenged Dr. Stoecker, the anti-Jew agitator, to a duel. Stoecker de­ clined because he 1b a clergyman Before a Birmingham audience, the Marquis of Lorne lauded Canada, saying that it possessed a salubrious climate, and was not afflicted with fevers so common in the United States. KALBORN, the informer in the plot to de­ stroy the German embassy at London by an ex­ plosion, detailed the case at an examination. The five persons engaged in it, among whom was a police officer, had the sole object in view ot ob­ taining a reward, and had planned to throw the onus of the affair upon an innocent Oerman. One of the conspirators remarked that the greater the number of persons killed, the higher would be the reward China declines to modify its claim in regard to Tonquin, and prefers to fight rather than surrender the provinces. Admiral Courbet telegraphs from Hanoi that he is still pre­ paring for war Many ship-builders on the Clyde have notified their workmen that wages wiil be reduced at the beginning of the year. A great fire ruined the Legislative chambers in Brussels. Several firemen were Injured, and many invaluable public records we-e destroyed Mr. Gladstone Is criticised by his followers for puttingotf the MuaiOitwU- Reform bill. ^ 1,973,699 6,645,33# 321,819 187,715,731 14,4^5,000 Casta balance available 15 4,644,974 . «D{?1 .... I 864,766,513 Arailpble asset*-- Cash in treasury. $ 8 J4.766.513 Bonds issued to Pacific railway com- panics. Interest payable by United State*-- Principal outstanding $ 64,62flJIll Interest accrued, not yet paid. ' J j,615 <^7 Interest paid by United States.,.,.. • 00,329^093 Interest repaid by companies*-* By transportation service 17,631,893 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings <86,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 40,035,000 JOHN G. CARLISLE of Kentucky, was nominated for tbe Speakership of the House of Representatives, by the Democratio caucus, on the first ballot. The caucus was called to order by Gen. Rosecrans. Geddes, of Ohio, was chosen Chairman. The motion that voting be viva voce was lost, 104 to 82, and a motion to reconsider was lost, 113 to 75. Morrison, or Illinois, nominated Car­ lisle; Curtin, of Pennsylvania, Randall; and Dorsheimer, of New York, Cox. On the first ballot Carlisle received lot of the 188 votes, Randall 52 and Cox 33. On Randall's motion Carlisle's nomination was made unanimous. Thirteen of New York's members voted for Cox and seven for Randall. Pennsylvania was solid for Randall, as was Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey. Carlisle's strength was, to a great extent, in the South, which was not, however, solid. The three candi­ dates then appeared and made speeches, the defeated ones promising to sustain Carlisle in every way. John B. Clarke, of Mis­ souri, was nominated for Clerk; John P. Leedom, of Ohio, for Sergeant-at-Arms; J. G. Wintersmith, of Texas, for Doorkeeper; Lycurgus Dalton, of Indiana, for Postmaster, and Rev. John S. Lindsay for Chaplain. In the Republican caucus sixty-seven members were present. Ex-Speaker Keifer and the entire list of incumbents were renominated. Hiseoek, of New York, made a long speech opposing Keifer on the especial ground that he had antagonized the press of the country, and-the Republican party could not afford to countenance him. There are 137 candidates for tbe position of second assistant door­ keeper, which pays $2,000 per annum. POLITICAL. THE Virginia Legislature met at Richmond last week, both abuses electing Democratic officers. Gov. Cameron's mes­ sage makes suggestions on the State debt, and says the honor of the State demands a searching investigation of the Danville riot, that the offenders may be punished. A reso­ lution was offered in tbe Senate asking for the resignation of United States Senator Mahone. CAPT. C. E. GRANT, a Republican, was discharged from the postoglce of the National House of Representatives to make room for a Democratic applicant, but was promptly reinstated on the discovery being made that he was a maimed Union Boldier. OBNERAL THE National Butter, Egg and Cheese association held its annual meeting at Cin­ cinnati, delegates from twenty-one States being present. President John J. McDonald, in his address, said the butter product of the United States annually amounts to $352,000,- 000; cheese, $36,000,000, while eggs and poul­ try approach the latter figures. FAILURES : Sigismund Vogel,clothing. Mobile, liabilities, $40,000; Sclatin & Proctor, grain merchants, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Eng­ land, liabilities, $800,000; S. M. Meyerberg & Co., silk manufacturers. New York, liabili­ ties, $250,000; John Sullivan, wholesale grocer, Lafayette, Ind., liabilities, $15,000; Ingram, Kitchen & Williams, military goods, Chicago; Henry Tucker, clothing, Oshkosh, Wis.; Jacob Kohn, dry goods, Mattoon, 111.; A- B. Kuepp, general store, Cantonville, Wis.; G. A. Pfeifler & Co., dry goods, Rochester, Ind., liabilities $15,000; Rosenberg St Stein, clothing. New York, lia­ bilities $105,000; George D. Emery, extensive dealer in mahogany, Chelsea, Mass.; R. Span- don, clothipg, Mansfield, Ohio; John Paret & Co., clothing. New York; Morgan Morgan, Jr., silverware. New York. DEVELOPMENTS in the Bank of Mon­ treal affairs caused a semi-panic on the Montreal stock market. Craig, President of the bank, has vanished after squandering in speculation and by other means about $1,000,000 of the funds... .A street car in To­ ronto was blown up with dynamite, and four occupants received serious injuries Bar- num & Co. have been informed that their agent at Rangoon has purchased a sacred white elephant for $200,000 in gold. rORBIGH. WINDOWS in the Episcopal church at Wexford, Ireland, and in the bouses of Prot­ estants were broken Sunday by a mob. An attempt was also made to burn the theater, where services were being held, conducted by Major Whittle, of Chicago. The mob burned all the Bibles and hymn-books they could find All Europeans unwilling to em' brace the faith of the False Prophet have fled northward from Khartoum Cholera is epidemic in Foo Chow, China. AT Wolverhampton Mr. Ohamberlais made a speech maintaining it was the duty of the Liberal party to remove the causes of Irish discontent, and denouncing the "shame, fraud and transparent impoBture" of Irish representation In Parliament. ADMIRAL PENG YU Liu has informed ADDITIONAL NEWS* ; • FINANCIAL embarrassments: Levy Brothers, wholesale clothing, New York eity, liabilities $3,475,000, assets $1,712,000; William T. Addis, lumber, Boyne, Mich., liabilities, $75,000; A. K. Stephens, dry goods, Saginaw, Mich.; M. Hammer, clothing, Mattoon, 111., liabilities- ?25,0 (0; Miller &. Umbenstock, printers, Chicago, liabilities $50,000: Arring- ton Brothers, loots and shoes, I.'ojfon, liabil­ ities $27,000; S. Jones & Co., New York, man­ ufacturers of hangings; Haswell & Co., whole­ sale druji s Montreal; the Dover Silk Company, Paterson, N. J., liabilities $102,000; Herman Ronburg, dry gc.ods, Chicago, liabilities $13,000: Rad/.ioski Brotlers, jewelry. Chi­ cago, labilities $15,000; W. H. Stewart, dry goods, Davenport, Iowa.--The failures throughout the country and Canada, last week, ro-e to the extreme number of 307, t'.ie largest weekly figure since the rush to get undor cover before the repeal of the Mankrnptey law, and three times as great a number as was usual two years ago. FLAMES destroyed the First Presby­ terian church at Kalamazoo, Mich., worth $20,000; Howell & Co.'s drug-house at Mont­ real, valued at $40,000; the iron foundry of Harrison Loring, at Boston, causing a loss of $30,000; the valuable Corry block, at COrry, Mass., worth $50,000; the extensive packing­ house of T. M. Sinclair, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, entailing a loss of $100,000; the busi­ ness portion of Williamson, N. C., causing a heavy loss; the Adams ( hilled'Plow works, at Plymouth, Ind.; a briek-maklng establish­ ment worth $10,000, at New Richmond, Ohio. A RUSSIAN Nihilist, now imprisoned in the fortress of Saints Peter and Paul, wrifes to a Vienna journal detailing the horrors that surround him. The letter, which the writer states is written with his blood, says he is sick, but is not allowed to see a physician, that he has no occupation and is left with inefficient food to slowly rot away. Many prisoners have bsen horribly beaten and rendered insane by numer­ ous cruelties. Madame Terentriva was re- oently outraged and poisoned, and Madame Jakemova constantly watches by her infant lest the rats which infest the cells should de­ vour it. The women, as a rule, are subjects ed to infinitely worse treatment than the men A duel took place in Rome between members of the Chamber of Deputies named Lovito and Nicotera, in which both were seri­ ously wounded. A DISPATCH from Duluth gives a let- ter from a man who claims to have been a passenger on the wrecked steamer Manistee. He states that all the life-boats but one were swept away in the storm. Nine persons floated about in small boats for three days, and three of them landed at Houghton. Capt. McKay refused to leave his ship, and went down in her off Eagle Harbor, B. A. PHINNEY, President of the Workingmen's association of Lynn, Mass., who has always been an enthusiastic sup­ porter of Pen Butler, has Issued an appeal to workingmen throughout the country to or­ ganize, call a national convention, and make a nomination for President. IT is rumored that Sidney Dillon will resign the Presidency of the Union Pacific Railway company, and that Charles Francis Adams, Jr., will take his place. A NEW BEDFORD (Mass.) organ com­ pany is being Investigated for making flimsy Instruments, and, by means of circulars, Felling them at exorbitant prieeij It is claimed they made a profit of $„0i),000 the past year The committee engaged in so­ liciting subscriptions toward a pedestal for the liartholdl statue at New York has secured over $100,000. BRIGADIER GENERAL CROOK has submitted his report of his operations among the Apache Indians during the last year. He says that the Apaches had not only the best of reasons for complaining, but had displayed remarkable forbearance in re­ maining, as they had been plundered of the supplies provided by the Government, and speak with bitterness of nearly all their agents. To avoid the crowding at the agencies the General allowed the different bands to settle anywhere within the res­ ervation, and they have thus raised the heaviest crop of corn in their history. Public sentiment on the frontier does not consider the killing of an Indian as murder, and this feeling, added to the efforts of cer­ tain of the frontier newspapers, the General considers responsible i'or much of the trouble. To disarm the Apaches, the veteran fighter believes, is almost impossible, but a sever­ alty of land-holdings is not only possible but desirable, and the ballot is said to be the necessary sequence of even partial civiliza­ tion A strong lobby will spend the winter at Washington for the purpose of putting dampers on all projects for postal telegraphy. r- 1BEJUMET. , NEW YORK. BCEVB.m. $ 6.35 Hoos 8.00 & 5.50 FLOUB--Superfine. 2.90 & 3.50 WHEAT--No. a Chicago. 1.O6 & 1.07 No. 2 Red L10 1.13 CORN--No. a ,63 (<V .65 OATS--No. a 38!<@ .39X1 POBK--Men 14.25 @14.75 LAUD .08% CHICAGO BKKVKS--Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.35 @7.25 Common to Fair 3.75 ft 5.50 Medium to Fair &35 O 6.50 Hoos 4.13 © 5.7# FroUE--Fancv White Winter Ex 6.00 <w 6.75 Good to Choice Spr'g Ex 4.75 #5.75 .96H<« .«<>% 1.01 .66 @ .67 }'i .31 (® .57*® .64**4 .88 (3 .31 •67->4 .08 & .42 .09M .90 .56 TKB i&natioB. Bsport mt the Secretary of That Department. The report of Secretary of the Interior Teller tor the fiscal rear ending June 30,1883, is largely devoted to Indian affairs, and tne re­ marks chiefly emphasise reoommendationa made In the report of the preceding year. In substance the report is as follows; It says that there has been a very considerable Improvement among the various Indian tribes, with bat little dissatisfaction, and but one out­ break, and that among the Apaches of Arizona. The amount appropriated in 1683 for Indians with whom there are no treaty engagements was $1,Sao,000. There Is a marked Improvement in Indian schools, and It Is snggeeted that half the chil­ dren of school age be put in manual-labor schools. The Government ought to spend $2,- 600,000 daring the coming year iu order to edu­ cate 10,000 additional Indian youths. The Sec­ retary urges, also, the creation of a contingent fund on which the department might have a discretionary power, not to be used for subsist­ ence, but for aiding exceptional cases for civiliz­ ing purposes, such as employing farmers, me­ chanics and others to teach by practice the In­ dians to become farmers, mechanics, stock-rais­ ers and general laborers. The salaries of agents should be increased. Each tribe should have a patent for the land the Government has guar­ anteed to it, leaving the Indians to determine the question of allotment for themselves. In regard to the leasing of Indian lands Congress should provide some svstem by which the un­ occupied lands can be leased by the tribe or the department for the benefit of such tribes, and the money expended for the tribe without cov­ ering it into the treasury. • Of the great Sioux Reservation, which con­ tains 48,924 square miles. It is said: "If the con­ ditions of the treaties of 1808 and 1876, together with those in the present agreement, are carried out In good faith on the part of the Government, the Indians will need no further aid from the Government, and cam readily be made self-sup­ porting within the next ten years." The Secretary recommends that Gen. Crook's prisoners of war should be removed from the agency to some posit where there will be less danger of their escape, and where their evil in­ fluences wiil not be felt by the more peaceably disposed of the tribe. There are valuable coal and silver mines in the S&n {'arlos Reservation which the Government should buy. The Crow Indians could be rendered self-sup­ porting for a few years if 3,000,000 acres of their reservat ion were sold. It is recommended that an appropriation be, made to settle Chief MoRes and his band of In­ dians in Washington Territory, on the Colvllle Reservation, so that the Indians will abandon the Columbia Reservation, and thus throw open to settlement 2,357,120 acres. Gen. Miles esti­ mates that this result, which was agreed upon by treaty with Moses in 1879, could be brought about by the expenditure of f85,ooo. Helen Hunt Jaokson ("H. H.," of the Century Magazine) was employed by the Department of the Interior to investigate the condition of the "Mission" Indians of California. She and her associate foand that those Indians, who are semi-civilized and attached to the Catholic church, number 2,907. They are slowly but surely disappearing, and have been barbarously treated by the Government, having been re­ peatedly dispossessed of their homes. Some provision should be made for them at once. The report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office shows that the disposal of public lands under all acts of Congress aggregates 19,- 430,032.80 acres, of which amount 3 )9,235.91 acres were Indian lands, and 1,999,335.71 acres railroad sections nnder various acts of Congress. It is again recommended that the Pre-emption law should be repealed. The Secretary further recommends that the Homestead law be so amended as to require a period of not less than six months after a settlement claim has been placed on record before final proof shall be ad­ mitted. This will prevent fraud. The necessity still exists for legislation in ref­ erence to lapsed railroad land-grants. The attention of Congress is invited to the tax­ ation of railroad lands. The report of the Commissioner of Pensions shows that at the close of the last fiscal year there were 303,659 pensioners, classified as fol­ lows : Army invalids 108,648 Army widows, minor children, and de­ pendent relatives 74,374 NAVY INVALIDS 2,468 NAVY WIDOWS, MINOR CHILDREN, AND DE­ PENDENT RELATIVES 1907 SURVIVORS OF THE WAR OF 1813 4,831 Widows of those who served in the warof 1812 81,336 There were added during the year 38,162 new pensioners, an excess over the number added the previous year of 10,645. The Government should provide for the payment of pension money every month when it becomes due. The number of applications for patents re­ ceived was 32,845; number of patents granted, 21,185; receipts from all sources, $1,095,884; ex­ penditures, $704,348, The increase in receipts of 1883 over 1882 was $165,020. • There is a large increase of work in the office of the Commissioner of Education. Thesystem of voluntary statistical information is the most complete in existence. The General Govern­ ment should supplement the work begun in the several States by affording to the State such financial aid as may be needed. The total indebtedness of the several subsi­ dized Pacific railroads to the United States is $123,845,605. The total credit for transportation and money paid into the treasury is $21,469,292. The necessity for a Government for Alaska is becoming very apparent. The total population of the Territory of Alaska Is not far from 30,000. Of this number about 5,000 are Aleuts, who are not barbarians if they are not of the highest or­ der of civilization. Before the cession by Rus­ sia good schools were maintained by them, but since the cession the schools have been discon­ tinued, and the adult Aleut who received his education under the Russian Government and at its expense sees his children growing up with­ out education. Suitable provision should be made for the education of the children of the Aleuts, which can be done without great expense. •It is reported that plural marriages have de­ creased in Utah since the passage of the act un­ der which the Utah Commission is acting. The board shall not go out of existence until the Legislature shall have enacted such laws as shall prohibit all polygamists from participating in the election of public officers, or from holding any such office. It is not provided who shall determine the question whether the Legislature provided for the tilling of said offices in accord­ ances with the provisions of the said act not. Any laws which may be passed should be sub­ mitted for the approval of Congress. In regard to the Yellowstone National Park it would seem to be necessary that more con­ venient and practicable means should be pro­ vided for the protection of person and prop­ erty within the park. The Superintendent Is clothed with no authority in such matters. ' WHEAT--No. 2 Sprintr No. 2 Red Winter COEN--No. a...; OATS--No. a ..; RYE--NO. a BAULKY--No. 3 BUTTER--Choice Creamery EOGH--Fresn @ .27 PORK--Mess 12.50 @14.00 LABD .06)4® ~ MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No.3 CORN--No. 3..#.. OATS--No. A RYE-No. a KAKI.EY--No. a POBK--Mess LABD.... ST. LOV1& WHEAT--No. 3 Bed CORN--Mixed OATS--No. A RYE POBK--Mees LABD CINCINNATI WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN. ..." OATS RYK POBK--Mees I.inn ^ TOLEDO. WHEAT--N<K 2Bed.. COBN ...» OATS--NA 3 DETROIT. FIJOUB WHEAT--No. 1 White. CORN--No. 2 OATS--Mixed. PORK--Mess INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 3 Red 1.01 & 1.0s CORN--N O. X . 5 3 . 5 4 ^ OATS--MIXED .3154 EAST LIBERTY, PA. CATTUI--BEST 6.00 @6.25 FAIR. 5.60 6.75 COMMON. *4.75 & 5.50 HOOS 4.90 <$ 5.50 3.60 « 4^0 0 .9 & .# & .3 (4 .57 .63 & .63 1X75 @13.80 8.35 & 8.70 1.02 .48)6 <9 .49 .38fc<3 .30 . .53fc<3 .54*4 13.26 ($13.75 . .08 0.O8*£ 1.04*6(9 1.05 . .55 & .66 . .S3 & .3256 . .60 ® .61 . 14.00 @14.60 . M & .08% . LOS 9 LOS . .06 .57 . .31 0 .32 . 4.00 & 6.75 . LOS & L06ik . .54 & .66 . .33 & .32*$ 12.26 @12.60 THE SECRET SERVICE. Abstract of the Report of Chief Brooks. James J. Brooks, Chief of the Secret-Service Division of the Treasury Department, reports that during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883 376 arrests were made by agents of the service. Of this numl>er ninety-one were convicted and sentenced. The total fines assessed amount to $14,979. The counterfeit money captured and secured during the year was as follows: United States treasury notes, $25,486; National bank notes, $1,188; coin, $5,240; nickels, $91; gold bangles limitation of the $1 gold*coin, repre­ sentative value), $92; flash notes, represent­ ative value, $0,452,381; gold trimmings, repre- BentatiVe\value, $56; genuine money, $5. The total exjwnditurcs for transportation, incident­ als and Mrvices amounted to $6fi,4l5. In refer­ ring to th« coinage of counterfeit coins, Mr. Brooks says that during the past year only one really dangerous counterfeit coin appeared, that of the standard dollar, which was almost identi­ cal with the genuine in weiurht, ring and appear­ ance, yet having only about 30 per cent, of sil­ ver. He also says: •'It is a matter for congratu­ lation, both with the public and this office, that for two years past there has not been put in cir­ culation a new counterfeit note." Mr. Brooks reports that in answer to his inter­ rogatories recently submitted to the various natienal banks throughout the countrv, with a view of ascertaining approximately the amount of counterfeit money in existence, he has re­ ceived 1,447 replies, showing that if the counter- felt money reported as tendered within two Sears was divided by the 1,447 banks, it would e but $5.25 to each. He says that, with a terri­ tory of 3,t)00,0()0 of square miles to cover, the present low condition of the manufacture and circulation of counterfeit monev is remarkable, and speaks well for the intelligent skill, in­ dustry, and faithfulness of the operatives of this service. Legislation necessary to suppress counterfeiting of the obligations of foreign gov­ ernments, for which there Is now no law, is Strongly recommended, and the report also urges that the manufacture and vending of dies and molds for making counterfeit coin be made a atlme. IN Paris the ratio of suicide for every niillion inhabitants averages yearly 402, while in Naples it is only 34. The ratio for other cities is given as fol­ lows: Stockholm, 354; Copenhagen, 802; Vienna, 287; Brussels, 271; Dres­ den, 240; St. Petersburg, 206; Flor ence, 180; Berlin, 170; New York, 144; Genoa, 135; London, 87, and Rome, 74. It is said that the majority of suicides in New York are Germans. I PITT from my heart the unhappy man who has a bad wife. She is •hackles on his feet, a palsy to his hands, a burden on his shoulder, smoke to his eyes, vinegar to hia teeth, a thorn to his side, a dagger to his heart.-- Oiborne. THOSE of us who have no heap of the kind mentioned see tbe truth of the saving, "Riches are like muck which •mells bad when it's in a heap, but, spread abroad, makes the earth fruit­ ful." A JDO-BEiiUBD runt Is what a Mississippi •dltor styles the oppa»l|ion oaadldafr. AMERICAN COMMERCE. Anpial Report Ikon the Bureau of' Ma* f tfsttoe. 1 T-heCWef of tbe, Bure»u of Statistics in Ma SJ5?S theforelgn commerce of the United States Soar the fiscal year ended June 80, lw9| Afty A ? The total vrine of the imports and exports of merehandUe daring tbe year amounted to $1,547,- 030,314, sudwas larger than during any previous year in the history of the country. The excess T2.12?uS^® ttl® •sports of merchandise over that of the_lmporta of merchandlse was $100,658, pre- e of "Sok.j5r«3TMag Jnst$733,- $?0 #83 900 * preoeding year--an increase of 1 "v1®.v*'ue of the exports of cotton during the last fiscal year amounted to $247,338,731, as against $199,813,644 during the preceding fiscal year ; the value of the exports of bread and amounted to $20ri.040,850, as against $183,670,529 during the preceding fiscal year; the of ttie exports of provision-* amounted to $107,888,387, ms against $120,055,701 during the preceding fiscal year, and the value of the ex­ ports of tobacco and manufactures thereof amounted to $22,098,229, as against $21,430,869 dunng the preceding fiscal year. The value of the exports of mineral oils dur- Ing the last fiscal year amounted to $44,913,079, as against $51,332,706 dnring the preceding fiscal year. The value of the exports of products of manufacture from the United States dnring the last fiscal year amounted to $211,899,001, as against $103,132,481 during the preceding year, and was larger than during any previous year in the history of the country. The value of the exports of products of mining during the last fiscal year was $51,419,149, as against $56,378,887 during the preoeding fiscal vear; the value of exports of products of the forest was $9,976,143, as against $9,188,984 dnring the preceding fiscal y®ar ; and the value of the exports of products of the fisheries was $6,176,375, as against $6,197,- during the preceding fiscal year. The total value of the imports of merchan­ dise Into the United States during the last fiscal year was $738,180,914, as against $724,639,574 dur­ ing the preoeding fiscal year, showing a falling off of $1,458,660. The value of the imports of sugar and mo­ lasses was $99,336,395; the value of the imports of wool and manufactures thereof was $55,234,- 283; the value of the imports of silk and manu­ factures thereof was $59,807,616; the value of the importations of chemicals, drugs, dyes, and medicines was $43,136,287; the value of the im­ ports of coffee was $42,050,513; the value of the imposts of iron and steel and manufactures thereof was $40,796,007; and the value of the Im­ ports of cotton goods was $36,853,689. -These constituted, in the order mentioned, the leading commodities and classes of commodities Im­ ported. The total exports of gold and silver amounted during the last fiscal year to $31,820,333, as against $49,417,479 during the preceding fiscal year, and the total imports thereof amounted to $28,489,391, as against $42,472,390 during the preceding fiscal year. The excess of the ex­ ports of gold and silver over the imports there­ of amounted to $3,330,942, as against a Bimilar excess of $6,945,089 during the preceding fiscal year. The value of the foreign commerce of the United States with Great Britain and Ireland amounted during the last fiscal year to $614,- 046,793, constituting nearly 40 per cent, of the total value of our foreign commerce; with France, $156,671,387; with Germany, $123,547,657; with the West Indies, $121,609,923, and with the British North American Provinces, $91,321,129. The total number of immigrants arrived in the United States'durlng the last fiscal year was 603,322, as against 783,992 during the preceding fiscal year. During the last fiscal year 158,093 Immigrants arrived from Great Britain and Ire­ land, 194,786 from Germany, 168,276 from all other countries in Europe. 79,241 from the Brit­ ish North American Provinces, and 8,031 from China. The immigration from China tell from 39,579 during the year ended June 30, 1880, to 8,031 during the year ended June 30,1683. The total duties collected upon imports amounted, during the last fiscal year, to $210,- 637,293, as against $210,138,616 during the pre­ ceding fiscal year, showing a falling off of $5,501,6x8. The sailing tonnagi of the United States the 80th of June last amounted to 3,832,393 tons, as against 2,810,108 tons the 30th of Jnne, 1882, and the steam tonnage of the country amount­ ed to 1,413,194 tons, *H against 1,355,825 tons the 30th of June, 1882. The tonnage of American vessels engaged in the foreign trade of the United States increased from i,259,493 tons the 30th of June, 1882, to 1,209,681 tons the 30th of June, 1883; and the tonnage engaged in the coastwise trade, the whale fisheries, and the cod and mackerel fisheries increased from 2,906,441 tons the 30th of June, 1882, to 2,965,806 tons the 30th of June, 1833. The tonnage built in the United States amounted to 205,4:10 tons during the year ended June 80,1883, as against 282,269 tons built during the year ended June 30. 1882. In our commerce with foreign countries there is still a very large preponderance of foreign ves­ sels employed. The tonnage of American ves­ sels entered at seaports of the United States from foreign countries amounted to 2,834.681 tons during the last fiscal year, as against 2,968,290 tons during the last fiscal year; and the tonnage of foreign vessels entered at spaports of the United States amounted to 10,526,176 tons, as against 11,688,309 tons during the preceding fis­ cal year. In 1865 the tonnage of American vessels en­ tered at onr seaports from foreign countries amounted to 3,194,275 tons, and constituted 71% per cent of the total tonnage entered, and in 1868, three years after the termination of the war, the tonnage of American vessels entered amounted to 2,465,695 tons and constituted 44.26 per cent, of the total tonnage entered, but of the total tonnage entered at seaports of the United States from foreign countries during the last fiscal year 79 per cent, oonsisted of foreign t mnage and only 31 per cent, ot American tonnage. During the ten months ended Oct. 3t, 1883, the average rates per bushel for the transporta­ tion of wheat from Chicago to New York were: By lake, 9.16 cents: by lake and canal, 12 cents; and by "all-rail," 16.1 cents; as against the fol­ lowing average rates during the calendar year 1882--viz: By lake and canal, 8.7 cents; by lake and rail, 10.9 cents; and by "all-rail" 14.6 cents. The increase in the average rates is due to the fact that the grain movement during the year 1883 has been much greater than dnring the year 1882. THE CURRENCY. Kxtracts from Owtwlhr Knox's Report, with last month, leaving yesrending Operation, the system extending bonds on $1,032, JUSTICE. The Report of Attorney General Brewster. The annual report of the Attorney General j>pens with a statement of the business of the Supreme conrt. At the close ot the October term, 1881, there remained undisposed of on the appellate docket 836 causes an<i on the origi­ nal docket 5. The number of causes docketed at the October term, 1882, were 434, of which 422 were on the appellate and 13 on the original docket, making the total number of causes on the docket at that term 1,275, of wh'ieh 1,258 were on the apellate and 17 on the original docket. Of this number 874 were not" dis­ posed of, and of these 868 were on the appellate and 6 on the original docket. The number of cases actually brought under consideration was 284, of which 137 were argued orally and 97 submitted on printed arguments. Of the 390 cases on the appellate docket disposed of 185 were affirmed, 60 revised, 33 dismissed, 79 set­ tled and dismissed under the ninth rule, 4 dis­ missed in vacation nnder the twenty-eighth rute, and in 8 questions certified to the court were answered. The total number of causes disposed of at the October term, 18S3, in which the United States were interested is 74. Since .the last report 772 suits, claiming up­ ward of $9,000,000, have been brought against tbe United States, of which ten, claiming $1,356,- 046.36, were brought on transmission by the heads of departments under the act of March 3, 1883, chapter 116. There have also been brought fifty-one suits, claiming $162,155.17 against the District ot Columbia under the act of June 16, 1880, t^s extended by the act of March 3,1883, chapter 95 The aggregate amount of judgments rendered in favor of the United States in civil suite during the last year was $1,735,820.63, and the amount actually collected on these judgments was $1,128,890.48, while $53,957.33 was obtained dur­ ing the year on Judgments rendered in former years for the United States, and $299,349.36 was otherwise realised in civil suits. The aggregate amount of fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed during the year in criminal prosecutions wsa $300,678.76, and the amount of these fines, forfeitures and penalties collected during the year was $65,817.76, while $11,981.48 was realized on fines, forfeitures and penalties im­ posed in former years. The Attorney General urges the propriety of the concentration of convicts sentenced by United States courts in some one prison. The condition of the several penal institutions un­ der Federal management is reported to be in the matn •atiafaetory. thinks the true policy to avoid contraction of bank circulation Eto >educe the nxhmdaat^- enue. As to the extension of the corporate ex- istenoe of National banks, the Controller says : At the date of my last report the corporate exlstenoeof eighty-six National banks hadex- Pired, and thirty of these banks had extended their existence nnder the sot of July 13, 1882, fifty-two banks went Into volvntarv liquidation and were succeeded by other associations organ­ ized in place thereof, chiefly previous to the act °J 1882, wWoh authorised the extension of the corporate existence for a new period of twenty years of National banks whose franchises were about to terminate. The four remaining banks expired by limitation, and did not effect new organizations. The lomber of National banks organised under the J®)* 2®' 18®3-iw¥oh were in operation ln December was 307. Of these banks, 37aHe extended their cor­ porate existence under tne act of July 12, ih; 1 seventeen have been placed ln liquidation by vote of shareholders of the bank, and four have expired by limitation. All of these banks which have been placed in liquidation and have ex­ pired by limitation, with the exception of two have been succeeded by new associations, or- ganized in the same localities with different titles. The whole number of banks now in OD- «ratlon which organized under the act of Jnne 8 1864, whose periods of succession will terminate during each year previous to 1900, Is 195. The number, capital and circulation of banks exnlr- ing in 1884 and 1885 is as follows • Years. No. of banks. Capital. Circulation. M8* 2*9 $ 89,611,570 $ 60,526,825 1885- 737 185,986,715 124,807,450 As to the relation of the banks to the bonds the Controller of the Currency says: ' The average rate of Interest now paid by the United States on the bonds deposltedaesecurity for circulating notes is about 8$ per cent, upon their par value, but it is equal to about 3.19 per cent, only of the current market value cf the bonds. The banks now hold $41,000,000 of 4^a 6106,000,000 of 4s, and $31,000,000 of 3 per cents which have been refunded from 3J6 per cent More than one-half of the bonds now held by the National banks are 3 per cents. If the pub­ lic debt continues to be paid as rapidly as it has been during the past all of these bonds will cer­ tainly be called within the next three years Those of the lower numbers, which it is safe to estimate will not be called within the next ten years, cannot be purchased for a premium of much less than 3 per cent., and at that price there will be a loss upon circulation based on this class of bonds if they are redeemed within three years. The profits on circulation based on other bonds held by National banks are merely nominal. STATISTICAL. Of the amount of United States bonds held bv the National banks and bv banks organized under State laws the Controller says: Through courtesy of State officers, the Con­ troller has obtained official reports made to them under State laws by State banks in twenty- two States, by trust companies in five States, and by savings banks in fourteen States at dif­ ferent dates during the year 1883, and from these returns the following table has been com­ piled: Held bv 754 State banks In twenty- two States $ 5,387,606 Held by thirty-four trust companies in five States 17,437,990 Held by 680 savings banks in fourteen / States 319,017,913 IIMltSI Total $211,742,909 The interest-bearing funded debt of the United states was November 1, last, $1,373,475,450. The total amount of bonds held by the National ($379,486,350) and State and savings banks ($241,- 742,909) was $631,229,259, which is not greatly less than one-half of the interest-bearing debt. The United States bonds held by State banks is given by geographical divisions for the years 1880, 1881 and 1882, 1883, as follows: Geographical Divisions. 1880. > jg«8. Eastern States ,....$ 45,230,098 $ 37,399,819 Middle States 157,563,757 182,847,588 Southern States 958,470 646,500 Western States, 2,672,243 3,105,024 Pacific States... 7,240,835 17,743,978 Total......... $313,665,403 $341,742,909 Illinois has advanced from sixth to fifth place In the National-bank capital. Kentucky has displaced New Jersey, and Minnesota is now the fourteenth State, taking the place of Vermont and displacing Iowa and New Hampshire. Virginia Is superseded by Wisconsin, Texas, and California. The Controller says the section of the Revised Statutes which places restrictions upon loans should be so amended as to exclude from the limitation mentioned legitimate loans upon produce or warehouse-receipts and some other classes of collateral security, as wett as loans upon United States bonds. DIGGING out tarantulas ' W*eir nests has become quite an industry in Santa Barbara, Cal. The insects are suffocated with gas, then stuffed, dried and fastened to a card. The retail Erice is 50 cents each, but many undreds are sold wholesale for $3 or $4 per dozen. Wire fences and blooded stock are revolutionizing the cattle business in Texas. The first dispenses with cow­ boys and "rounding-up," and the latter enables the growers to compete -with Montana oattle. TRAR years ago iron rails factored by all rail makers, and steel rails by comparatively few; the latter now form 95 per cent, of the total out­ put. Abram 8. HawrrT the WAR. Synopsis of loeretary Lincoln's Boport. The report of the Secretary of War gives a pretty full history of the operations of his de­ partment, but has not much to offer in the way of active military operations. After refer­ ring to the retirement ot Gen. Sherman from command of the army the Secretary says that the only active employment of troops was in the brief Apache campaign last summer under Gen. Crook. He adds: As for some time past the only Indian outbreaks have been in Arizona, special attention has been directed to an en­ deavor to secure for that region of the country the same quiet which exists elsewhere. After careful consideration of the difficulties involved, an arrangement has been made be­ tween the Interior department and the War de­ partment, under which the police control of all the Indians on the San Carlos reservation has been given to Gen. Crook, and .he has been charged with the duty of keeping the peace on the reservation and preventing the Indians from leaving it. Gen. Sherman expresses the belief that if Gen. Crook is permitted to manage the Apaches in his own way, all wars will cease in Arizona, and that with them wiil disappear the complicated Indian question which has tested the patience and courage of our people ever since the first settlement by whites on this con­ tinent. The number of desertions from the army in the past year was nearly 3,600; only a few less than the extraordinary number of the year be­ fore. As a means of checking the evil, the Sec­ retary recommends that the pay of enlisted men be raised to $16 a month. He also recommends that enlisted men be retired on full pay after thirty-five years' continuous service. The whole number of national cemeteries now nnder the care of the Quartermaster's Depart­ ment is eighty-three, containing 321.369 inter­ ments. There has been some delay in pros­ ecuting the work of providing headstones for the soldiers' graves in private, village, and city cemeteries, but the work will be continued until brought to a satisfactory close. Referring to the improvements at the mouth of the Mississippi river, the Secretary says: The last annual report of this department brought the history ot this work to Sept. 9, 1882. During the four quarters ending Sept. 9, 1883, there was no failure of maintenance of the chan­ nel. From Sept. 10,-1882, to Sept. 9, 1883, both dates inclusive, four quarterly payments for maintenance, amounting to $100,000, and two semi-annual payments of interest on the $1.- 000,000 retained, amounting to $50,000, were made, the total expenditure for the Improve­ ment to the latter date being $1,850,000. A considerable portion of the report is given to a history of the Proteus expedition, but be­ yond a mere recital of the facts the Secretary does not go, as a court of inquiry is now in ses­ sion investigating the causes of the failure of the expedition. Referring to the militia the Secretary says: "I earnestly reoommend that the attention of Con­ gress be invited to the subject of giving substan­ tial encouragement to the formation of volun­ teer militia organizations in every State, and in the District of Columbia, by liberal appropria­ tions to supply the neoeesary arms, equipments, tents, ammunition, and other ordnauce stores. With our small standing army our main de­ pendence for public defense must be on our militia; and the wisdom of the comparatively small expenditures which would encourage their organization and their efficiency in dnll and discipline seems apparent. In the last Congress a bill on this subject was reported from the Senate Committee on Military Affairs (S. 1596) by which it was contemplated that, In lien of the annual sum of $300,000 provided by the act of the 33d of April, 1806, the sum of $60t,000 nhould be annually appropriated, the purposes for which it should be used being more extended than under the provisions of the old act. A careful consideration of this proposed act leads to the belief that its enactment wonld be a great public benefit, and I strongly recommend the passage of such a law." TKA plants are growing in portions of Mississippi and Louisiana, and poor people pluck the leaves and steep them. The plants have had very little atten­ tion, and yet they are of fair size and appear hardy. A man's mind must be pretty well warped when he takes a wrong for a right, and he must also be strangely "pregedist" when he eats tar on his buckwheat cakes and calls it molasses. THE little island of Atafer, in the South seas, is said to be the only purely Christian country in the world Every adult on the island is a member of the church on confession of faith. CANADA is becoming very jealous of Dakota. ' OVER 50,000 Massachusetts women have pe- «|tooed tor tka right to r**. FINANCE. AbUmtafiMtoport^oftts liinlwy «t The report of Secretary folger far the fiscal year ending June 90, IMS, shows that the ordi­ nary revenues of the Government (or the yea1 were as follows: Customs, $314,T0MB7; Internal revenue, $144,730,969; sale* of pnMtw $?,'. 5*1.864: direct tax, $18,157; $30,796,695; total, $396,387,583. Ordinary ex­ penses: Civil and misoellMeons, $68,678,022; War department, $48,911,383; Navy department. $16,283,437; Indians, $7,3S3,S$0: m£3bu, $66,- 012,.) <4; interest on public debt, $M,160,132; total, $265,408,188, leaving a surplus rev­ enue of $43,879,444. This 6 $7,309,00 more than Mr. Folger estimated the surplus would amount to in his last annual report. Compared with the previous Jlaaal year, the re­ ceipts for 1889 have decreased. In customs $',704,233; in internal revenue, $1,777,32f»; in direct tax, $Sl,9e«, and In miscellaneous, $906,- Tbeyhave Increased ln sales ot public lands $3,203,734. Total decrease, $13,604,367. The expenditures show an increase over the year before oft $7,536,697 The expenditures of the War department increased $6,400,000; for the Navy department, $350,000. and for pen­ sions nearly $5,000,000, while the interest on the public debt decreased almost $12,000,000. Since the last annual report the act of March 3, 1883, diminished the sourbes of reve­ nue and changed the tariff law, so the estimate made a year ago must be entirely re­ vised. Then tbe receipts expected from Inter­ nal revenue were $145,000,000. Now the esti­ mated revenue is $120,009,000. The receipts from customs have fallen off proportionately. For the four months ending Nov. 1, the total re­ ceipts were $124,369,985; for the corresponding months of last year they were $114,953,933. For the same periods the expenditures were $89- 918.200 and $98,706,661. By the payment of $207,000,000 of tne public debt, the charge for interest will be greatly reduced. It Is probable that the reoeipts wiH be about $350,000,000 for the fiscal year 1884, while the expenditures will amount to $265,000,000, leaving a surplus of $85,000,000 over and above the sinking fond. During the last fiscal year the bonds retired amounted to $134,009,750. Since then $38,374,000 of 3 per cents have been paid, and $40,000,000 more have been called. Of this last sum, $5,000,- (tjo has been met already, and Is included In the $38,374,000. The Secretory again calls the attention of Con­ gress to the fact that the receipts of the Govern­ ment are greatly in excess of its needs. The dangers of this large surplus to the money market will be dwelt upon, and the Secretary will say that there is no method of disbursing this snrolus except by payment of the public debt. Payment of the public debt, however, is nowinjurlons to the national banking system. When all the outstanding calls are paid, the 3 per cents, will be reduced to the neighborhood of $280,000,000, and of this the banks hold about $200,000,000. If payment of the publie debt is to be permitted to go on, even this year, as It has during the last fiscal vear, the existence of a good many national banks is threatened, and this means a sensible contraction of tlie cur­ rency. If the income of the Government remains as it is, the Secretary of the Treasury will call at least $50,000,000 more of bonds be­ fore the end of the fiscal y«»ar, and by the end of the fiscal year 1885 more than half the banks holding 3s as security for circulation would have to replace them with 4,'s at a great pre­ mium or retire their circulation, and thus con­ tract the currency. In discussing tne mode of reducing the reve­ nues, the Secretary opposes the abolition of the internal-revenue tax. It is estimated that this tax will yield under the present law $120, - 000,000, and this is at least $35,000,000 more than the revenue can be decreased. A decrease of the tax on tobacco and spirits does not necessarily argue a smaller revenue, as experi­ ence has often found. Therefore, the Secretary recommends a still further reduction of customs duties, after a proper inquiry shall have devel­ oped what articles can best stand the reduction. Sugar, at least, the Secretary thinks, ought to pay a much smaller duty than it now does. The Secretary is embarrassed by the new law which has so recently been passed that it would seem proper to give it a further trial before endeavoring to change it, but it has not accomplished the pur­ poses which he desired to effect when he last year recommended that a reduction of revenue be made by a revision of the tariff that should reduce the duties on sugar, iron, steel, woolens and wool, cottons and raw material. Therefore these recommendations must be substantially renewed, for the dangers of a large surplus are even more threatening than they were before the passage of the Tariff act. The Secretary oalls attention to tbe sugges­ tions made by Comptroller Knox, that the rate of issue of national bank notes be Increased to 90 per cent, of the market value of the bonds, ana that the 4'stee refunded In 3's, the holders receiving a premium in satisfaction for the resultant loss of Interest. THE POSTOFFICE. Postmaster General Greaham's The report of the Postmaster General is very full and comprehensive. He estimates the reve­ nue of the department for the fiftcal year ending June 30, 1885, at $47,104,078, and its expenditures at $50,062,189, leaving a deficiency to be supplied out of the Treasury ot $2,958,111, This defi­ ciency will be caused, it is thought, by the re­ duction of postage, but the report suggests that flirures are purely conjectural. The free delivery system has been largely ex­ tended during the year, and is now ln operation at 154 offices. The total appropriation for this service waa $3,200,000, including a special appropriation of $200,000 to carry out the provisions of the act of Aug. 2,18S3, an increase of $575,000 over that of the preoeding year. . The total cost of the service was $3,173,336.51, leaving an unexpended balance of $26,663.49. The increase of the cost over the preceding year was $550,073.77. The present status of the Star service showa for 1883 a cost of $4,739,478, with 77,998,782 miles of annual transportation, against a cost of $7,- 321,499, with 76,070,996 miles of annual transpor­ tation in 1880, being an increase from 1880 of 1,927,787 miles of transportation and $2,582,021 decrease in cost. This service is now all per­ formed under contracts made upon proposals submitted in response to advertisements. An Interesting statement, showing the development and cost of the railroad service from its com­ mencement until June 30, 1883, is presented. It is the general opinion that the rates of pay have been greatly increased of late years; the fact is otherwise. The cost per mile of transportation in 1854was 11.4cents; in 1883, notwithstanding the enormous increase in weiirht of mails and the superior facilities provided for distribution, the cost is 10.75 cents per mile. On the 30th of last June there were 5,927 mon­ ey-order offices in operation, whose transactions during the year, of domestic orders issued, amounted to $117,329,409.31, and of domestic or­ ders paid and repaid to $ll7,;>4i,28l.78; of inter­ national orders issued to $7,717,822.11, and of in­ ternational orders paid and repaid to $3,063,- 187.05; a grand total in issues of $125,047,328.42, and in payments and repayments of $120,407,- 468.83. The fees received in domestic orders issued aggregated $1,101,821.80, and on interna­ tional orders $170,'238.80--a total of $1,272,060.90. The trains were, in domestic transactions, about 3M> per cent., and in international trans­ actions from 1.85 to over 56 per cent.; in domes­ tic fees about 4% per cent., and in international fees from .56 to over .54 per cent. The Postmaster General opposes the proposed reduction of postage on drop letters from 3 cents to 1, on the ground that it would Increase the cost of the carriers" service and lead to a clamor tor its extension, but he is in favor of increasing the single rate limit on all letters from a half ounce to an ounoe. He also recommends that the rate of postage on transient newspapers and periodicals be fixed at 1 cent for every three ounces. Instead of l cent for every two ounces as now. On the subject of postal telegraphy, the Postmaster General is diffuse. He says: " From the best consideration which 1 have been enabled to bestow upon the subject, I have reached the conclusion that Congress haa the constitutional power in providing for the postal service of the country to avail itself ot all the facilities devised by the inventive genius of modern times for transmitting messages and intelligence, and that it has full authority to adopt either of the first two plans which I have mentioned. "The establishment and operation of a postal telegraph as a monopoly, or in competition with private companies, would. It is insisted, reduce rates which are now exorbitant and protect the public against the abuses and evils deemed to be inseparable from the service as it exists. In either event an enormous expense mast be in* curred. But without dwelling upon that consid­ eration, it is dear that an efficient execution of either plan will neoessarily involve the employ­ ment of a multitude ot operators, messengers, mechanics, and laborers, and thus largely add to the patronge of the Government. An Increase of that patronage beyond what Is indispensa­ ble to the public service is to be deprecated and avoided, and It is one of the dangers which threaten the purity sad duration of our Institu­ tions. In Europe the telegraph is under the oon- trol of the public authorities. With us, the ad­ ministration is the Government ln action, and may, for the time being and for all practical purposes, be considered the Government Itself. In seasons of political excitement, and, to some extent at other times, is there not ground for serious apprehension that the telegraph, under the exclusive control of the dominant party, might be abused to promote partisan purposes and perpetuate the power of the administration? But if it could be kept entirely tree from such infiuenoe, I should nesitate to sanction a meas­ ure providing that the United States shall be­ come tbe proprietor of telegraph lines* and opee* ate them by its officers ana agents." IT is said that life at an elevation of 20,000 feet is impossible. Citizens who are in the habit of getting elevated every night must take care not to reach this limit. DE. STTJRTEVANT advises that plum trees be grown in the poultry-yard. His experience is that poultry about the trees prevent the work of the onrcolio. THE girl with the big hat seems to be all head until you talk to har. SOLON CHASE, the Maine Gfeenbacksr, wiU •tart another paper* % ifeyi /