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rntj) glaindralct N»*>t v-H itfji . J-. 1. WW sunt. tdHwwf M cHENEY, -- "" ILLINOIS. &SZS2ZSS3* •EEKLY IEWS REViEV. T1IK EAST. Thk Board of Education in New York estimates its expenditures for next year at 0. The existing school housesjeave 7&.OJO children still unprovided for.;..The coal operatois and min rsof the MassfVm district h -ve agreed upon a compromise which insures the working of the mines until March t next . 1 THE 262d 'anniversary of the arrival «t the;*ayfl jwer and the oimpact of the lll»>rime with t te Government was elebrted at Provinoeto^ n, Maas, A p« mauent asso- oclation to erpet&ate this hi«toxical eveut was f rmed. Workmen engaged in tearing down the old postoflioe bui ding, In New York, found tnree Rk letona. A num­ ber of broken Vkulls and parts of other akelet ns were also found, as well •6 two cotti:i-plat/e«, ne « f whi h bore the Jnaerip ion, "Peter Kemble, J .; di d Nov. 19, 1813."...,Prof. H nry Draper the well- known scientist, ana won of Prof. John W. Draper, dieuot vieuri* at his home in New yp'k I^aa R Butts the olde.-t printer in Boston, has passed away. A ftrk occurred in the Callendar Building, at Providence, R. t, which result­ ed in a serious loss of life. The building was. four stories high arid occu led m stly by jewelry shops. The tire originate i n the middle of the bunding, on the third floor and was canned by the ignition of a can of naphtha The room was fi;led with light, inflammnb e clo' hes, and the woodwork was ory as tinder. The room was next the stairway, and before a wp-d of warning cou >1 be g'ven escape by ' the Stairwav wa« cut <>ff lythe flames. Oil (he fourth floor was the workshop of William H. Robin on A Co.. gold-chain makers The Arm employed forty operative^, equally divided m to ~«x Wlie i the d im s swept up through the floor the employes made a rush for the windows. The e was no tire- escupe on the biiildinpr. Just across the alley-way, about ;ifte< n iC'tw de, was atwo- Btory wooden structure. The help ru hed for the end of the building front­ ing on this alley. Then a panio ensued. The roof ot th • wooden building was about twenty leet below the win ows' Bills, where the ex iteel girls were congre­ gated. The persons in the rear crow ied and pushed those in the fct of jumping and many fell hort Oattrs were injured hv be inff jumped upon a er they h id rea hed the root. Two girls and one man fell between the buildings and >iied soon a. ter. Six girls were tataily injured, and three others had limbs broken. COAL operators representing n ine of the peineq al mine" of > be Ma^sil on district have followed their riva's by yielding to the de­ mands of the miners, but they take re­ venge by ordering reaucion in he whole­ sale and retail prices....lh' public can n >t leave forgotten the outrage peipetrated by 1 ur ;&i s On the ilchrist bro hem ait Charlton, N. Y, las. August, when #126.000 in bonds and mortga es, #S ,WX) in certificates of d- po« t, and $800 in itasfc were t ken away. Part e« in New York city have for some time been endeavoring to ncgofci; te for t e return of the sccunti a Through the labors of 8h» riff y«n enburgh aH the stolen sec rti> swere purchase i from h go-betw en for $950, th • thieves not ap­ pealing to know the value of their booty. -<3nrcT!f!fATt has been undergoing a tefrfHe scourge of «m all-pox during the past three months, bat owing to a systemat­ ic effort on the part of the authorities to suppress the farfe the true extent of the dis­ ease has net hitherto been made public. It is now announovd that since Aug. & there have been in Cincinnati upward of 4,000 cases sal 1,500 deaths from smali-pox. and g * * fttnl "Tith ^ of nnld weather th<{ disease will become epidemic. At /Patterson Station, John WstSon and Gash Anstin shot, wounded and robbed William Fox of 1300. All were rail- toad laborers. Fox returned to camp and (old the story. The railroad hands captured the robbers. A jury of ra lroad men was im­ paneled, who tried and convicted them. Watson was hanged to a telegraph pole in eight of ^00 spectators. Austin was turned ; oyer to the authorities. TThk managers of the Vulcan Steel Works, of St Louis, threaten to dose for a year. Steel rails have fallen from 960 to 945 per ton, while pig-iion has decreased only from $26 to $24. The works would be kept canning on pig-iron at $'J0; otherwise a pay­ roll of 5150,00.i per month will Jbe stopped. The Pittsburgh people seem to feel th •£they can-compete successfulv with a y i-ection. It is said that the j rofits of the Edjrar Thom­ son Bteel W< rkf5 last year were $l,30i,t*J0 : The Joliet Steel Company holds that ore and ; labor must pre ( are themselves lor a rate of #45 per ton for rails. MARK GRAY LYON, who spent some years in the Elgin Insane asylum for -firing at Edwin Booth in a Chicago theater, is a clerk in a dry goods store at Keokuk. He has recently written to a theatrical man­ ager in Mi. Louis to know which is th.f best anting edition of Hamlet, and announcing that he intends to star in the small towns next winter John Herzer, a resident of Milwaukee, Who weighed 48fi pounds, wus buried the other day. He literally choked (o de jth, and no coffin sufficient y large to twelve his remains could be oota ned. • A BAND of Piegans swooped down on 9 party of Crow scouts, near Fort Custer, and ran off thirty ponies. In the fight which foliowe i two Piegan warriors were killed. United States troops wiil be kept in mo' ion In that region this winter, and tae Canadian mounted i olice are working in union with them Mrs. Mary Lonar, 81 years old, living akme and destitute near Indianapolis, com­ mitted suicide by taking Pans-green... .The Korthern Pacific Railroad Company has de­ cided to sell 3,000,000 acres of land east of the Missouri river at $4 per acre. r is believed Cook asked her to marry him, and sherefus d. Cook was employed in a saw-mill. Miss Austin w s a l>eautiful young lady Five well-known business nv n of Arkansas have lc sad the HK • pent-' tentdary at rates whi -h will amount to $45,- 100 a year und all incidenta. expenses. WASHIMUTOM. Bccrxtart LINCOLN has decided to recommend in his report that Congress should pass no River and Harbor bill this session. It is claimed that but #10,- 000,000 of the #18,0v>0sn0v) appropri­ ated h've as yet been designated for use dur ng the present fiscal year Secretary Fo'ger is considering two or hree important financial propositions which have been recently made to him in regard to the bonds by leading bankers of New York. The holders of wmc of t he currency ti's now offer to exchange them for the 3 per oenta That subject is being oon^iderei. ON the application of the Second National Bank of Peoria, Secretary Folrer has authorized the use ot United States bonds at market rates as security for public depips ts reserving the power to control the amount THE Secretary of the Navy has ioraed a circular inviting the presen ation to the deptirtment i y any skilltul person o: plans, model and d s im** for new wheel seam cruising vessels for the n > vy.... ,T e steam­ er Nipsic had eft Pt ermo, itaiy, before the order to t onvey John How ird Payne's re­ mains to this oountry nad been reoeiv^X THE Chief of the Burean of Statistios reports that during the month of October there arrived at the various ports ot the United States 57,ttS » passengers, o: whom 45,ttt'>5 were immigran's, 8,367 citizens of the United -States returned from abroad, and 8,857 aliens not intending t > remain in the United States. Of this total number oi im­ migrants there arrived from England and Wales, Irel nd, 3,415; Scotland, l,t<55; Austria, 5>s; Belgium, 198; Boheaiia, 481; Denmark, 59f>; France, 514; Germanv, 17,ti98; Hungary. 9C3; Italy, 1,8^4; the Ne herl&n is, Norway, 1,1 (rl ; Russia, &.>•'>; PolarKl, 147; Sweden, 2,ol<>; Switzerland, 859; Dominion ot Canada. 6,446; and from ail other coun­ tries GKXERAX. AN electrical storm, extending from the Atlantic seaboard to the Missouri, com­ mencing early on the evening of Novv 17, nearly cut off tele/rap'iic communication for nine hours. In the Ch cag i office < f the Wetr ern Union li e the switch-board was set on .fire a dozen timea ihe atmosphe'Ho e ectri' ity coming into the Milwaukee ortice was sufficient to eep i iam • urniug. Wi es running irom Cincinnati to St L'iuis were worked wi hout a battery. Ihe storm seemed to travel in su cessive n^rative and Tositive waves A similar condition of the atm sphere existed simultaneous y in Eu­ rope, and the submarine cables were very seriously affected The business failures in the United States during the week en ting Nov. IS numbered 167, exceed ng t e previ­ ous week's recout by IS, and being more than in the corresponding week last year. FWTY-ONE Merino sheep of the cele­ brated Rambouillet breed, worth $500 apiece, the largest number of this breed ever brought to this country at one time, and the only lot that has been imported dur­ ing the lat thirty-eight years, arrived In New York from ifavre. hey will shipped to a great sheet) r.nvhe in Texas and used as a cross with tue domestic sheep, with the •xpec. ation of pioducng a grade of wool even finer than Merino itself.... .Twen y Mexicans are said to have been killed by In­ dians near Curlitas and troops nave gone in pursuit of the ied mui de era. AT the annnal meeting of the stock­ holders of the Baltimo e and Ohio oad, PresideiitQari ett ret orted the gr ss revenue of the rear nt $18 8^3 8 5, ihe net inc me snow ng a g*in of 9320, 00. Se ui-unnual tjivideui-sof 5 per cent nave be ;n dec: m d, > nd the company has a snrp u- fun 1 of f^3,9 7,658... .Jonn i.oclie, Frank iiiirro , and M ithew M rcer, a orers, wen lei od at lnd an Po-d, N. F., the o r on wtich they were having been thro a n fr m the tr .c*. ABOUT thirty persons gathered at l^ssiltss, to hear » laiHira. ir* Mra ScoviHe, THE SOU IV. 4 riot at Opeliska, ,+3~. i Is 4 riot at Opeliska, Ala., which - lasted aH night, lamp-posts and show win­ dows were generally destroyed by the fir­ ing of a thousand shots. Three men were wounded,.The wholesale d'ug house of Gilbert Brothers & Co., in Baltimore, was destroyed by fire. Jam-s Shaw, the poner, was fatally burned, live liremen were se­ verely iniured by falling timers, and a par­ ty of girls at work on the third floor were feegcued while the stairway was in flames. SUICIDE and cremation combined was the unusual form of self destruction chosen by a workman in a rolling-mill at Birming­ ham, A'n. Having decided to put himself out ot the wav in a manner which suould give no tiouble in the matter of funeral ex­ penses, he ascended to the mouth of the blaKt furnwoe stack and jumped into the fierv furnace the fierce heat oi' which destroyed every vestige of mortality North Carolina supplies two bloody items in the calendar of unusual crimen. At a church festival in Gaston county the jealousy be­ tween two rivals for the regard of a young lady led to the shooting or a boy through the 1a w and the murder of the more-suc- oessful of the aspiran's to the lady's hand In Forest City a quarrel between prominent etttzens of the county terminated in the kill­ ing of one man and the wounding of several others. ., Nbab Campbellvflie, Ky., a masked robber stopped a stage took from the three occupants valuables and papers, and rifled the mail bags of regis ered letters. Two of (he passengers mved some of their property by concealing it The robber disapp ared in (he woods.. . .J. T. Crow and Jo eph Wood quarreled about -liquor in a Jeftersonviile, (Art.) saloon, when Crow suddenly seized a <flaopping-hoe and literally out Wood's head into two pieces. AT Froetburg, Ky., a party of young people were out walking, wheh a young man, Cook, called his sweetheart, Miss Aus­ tin, on side and conversed a few mom nts with her. Cook placed a pistol 10 he girl's temple and shot her dead, und then put the pis ol to his own heart, and shot;, himself through the body a d wice through ttie Both were dead, m two minutes. It pcovillejthnt she announced a post] *»n aooojHFof ijhe smali^M of ttfe • THE Labor Congress, in session at Cleveland, voted to strike ont the protect­ ive-tariff plank from the platform. The tendency of some of the speeches was an­ tagonistic to the Knights of Labor organ­ ization, and Soda.istic organisations were denounced. 51:l£=r-. • pouncAik OFFICIAL vote of Pennsylvania for Governor: Pattison, 353.966; Beaver, 313,- 698; Stewart, 43,304; Armstrong, 22,8 <8; Petit 4,781. The majority for Eliiott, Dem- ocrat.c candidate for Congressman-at- Large, i* about 3.1,000. The remain ng Dem­ ocratic can-i.dates are elected by from 86.- 000 to 41,000 plurality. WASHINGTON te'egram: Senator Voorhees gives the Democrat c keynote as to civil-service reform. He is reported here as having said that the Democrats are pretty certan of success in 1884; that Indiana "is safely anchored as a Democratic State; and, referring to the civil-service bills, that he will vote for none which gives the present ooeupants of Federal offices a life-tenure. J. R CHALMERS has filed a mandamus to compel Secretary of State Myers of Mississippi to credit him with the votes cast for "J. R Chambliss" in Tate county. The Election Commissioners have sent an amended return, show­ ing the ballots were cast ior Ch aimer*, and not tor Chamfolis*.... Sena or Riddleburger, of Virginia, has been interviewed. "I sh 11," he said, "act inde­ pendently in all matters of legislation. I shall not tie myself to any party. I shall vote and demean myself in the Senate so as to, n my judgment, best subserve my coun­ try, regardle s of partv or faction-. My greatest des-re is to see a united, happy and ! prosperous people. I have no en m es to pumsh or friends to reward I be.one to no faction, and shall not hamper myself by joining in the disputes and differences of either party, but, as I remarked a while ago exercise my own judgment on all questions' and vote accordingly." ' UNITED STATES SENATOB DAVIS, of West Virginia, declines to be a candidate for re-election. The names of Congressman Kenna, ex-Gov. Matthews and ex-Senator Hereford are mentioned in connection with the place, with the chances in favor of Ken­ na Frank H. Hurd and other leading Democrats of Ohio have arranged for a tariff and labor dinner at Columbus on Jan. 8 who* Messrs. Thurman, McDonald, Watter- son and others will respond to toasts. TIB Alabama State Temperance Con­ vention, in ses-ion at Montgomery, declared itself opposed to making the temperance question a pol tic done, but demanded a better enforcement of the present license laws of the State. FOREIGW. AN immense business consolidation is announced from London. The celebrated cannon-foundry establishment of Sir Walter Armstrong has amalgamated with Mitchell A Co., shipbuilders, and will establish works on the Tyne, the capital of ttie joint concern being $1(H u^ooo. Ships of war and guns tor their armament will be turned out ready for action.... i he testimony of Suleiman Daoud, to the effect that Arabi Pallia gave him peremptory commands to burn Alexandria and mur­ der the Khedive, Is generally discredited at Cairo Hv an explosion of dynamite in Burryport Wales, tnree g ris and two men were k led and several other persons were wounded A teacher and eight children were consumed in a conflagration at Crozon, Franra The Council Chamber, postoffi e "and u school were destroyed. EIGHT THOUSAND British troops, led by Gen. Wolseley, who took part in the Egyptian campaign, were reviewed at Buck­ ingham Palace by Queen Victoria, accompa- n ed by the Crowu Princess of Germany, ttie Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge. The Duke of Con- nuught marched past at the head of the Foot GuaicU, the Queen standing In her car­ riage. ... A large numoer of Egyptian troops have l»een ordered to the Soudan. The arms ana ammunition are bong forwarded sepa­ rately. Ten THOUSAND persons attended the meeting of the Irish Nat onal Leaguo at Tuilagh, Ireland. Among the s eakers wore Sullivan and O'Kelly, members of Parlia­ ment The 1 tier reterre I to what he called U e effort of D.iv tt to split the Irish party, at'd aid thevwere tantamount to s bbtnff Ireland in the b ck. He threatened to r»- rtcn his s. at if the country wavered in its alle. ian e to Parne 1. Ila a lvised the farmer* to tke advantage of the Arrears of Itnnt act Votes of conftdenoe in the spetkers wer. carred..,. The Soc.ullst pt e-R of Franco expresses in- d •**» *•»" "t^th d I^vous, and says the condition of affairs under the repub'.c i- worse than it could be und -r an «mp-re. 8 udents it the universities at Bt P< tersbunr and Kaznn, owing to the haisli ollicL.l regulations adopttnl by the fac­ ulties, m.jde hostile <!em •nsuationa The university at Kazan ha« been closed in con frequence... .'1 he Pope exprea<es horror at ti e re urrenoe of outrages in Ireland, and has chanred tlie Bishops to • xert themselves in prevent ng the people from violating the inws li is alleged that the Commi-eion of Inqiiry at Cairo is turning the trial of Arabi Pa-ha into a fiiroe, and Counsel Brodley has w.thdiawn rom the defense. THK awftil midnight mu der of the Joyce fami yint onnoma a, Ireland, a region mf.iinous for the m iny deeds of atrooity tiiere erpetrated on the I7t - of last Au­ gust, wn he punished in a manner scarcely less hi-Mini! tha i thecrimeits If. Three of la e leaders of the band of assassins h^d trial at Duo-in, an received the scnteno of dea h. and last week four accomplices pi a ed guilty and threw themselves upon ••.re mercy of the Crown The appeals of their count-el, and the acquiescence there­ in of the Attorney General, were, however, of no avail, and theVj too, were s-'iitenced to die on the scailold Dec. 15... .Queen Vic­ toria de^or;u.ed at Windsor 370 of the officers and men engaged in the Egyptian cam­ paign. She th iiiked them for their gal­ lantry and devotion, and w <s proud of them for the laurels thev had added to other nob e achievements of the British army.... The French Chamber of Deputies passed a bill ratifying the treaty made by De Brazzri, Stanley's hated rival, with Makako, the Congo chief, and the Government will ask a grant of 200,000 francs to enable De Brazza to eetub sh iwe ve scientific, commercial and hospital stations along the Congo river. A CAIRO dispatch states that a report preplwed by the Egyptian P blic Prosecutor, in which he summarizes the evidence against Arabi Pasha and other rebel leaders^ was submitted to the Khed' e and approved It w 11 be : resen ed ' o Lord Uufferin. It is unde: sto d the Egyptian Government is prepared to leave i to Urea'; Bri ain to de­ cide whether the evidence is sufficient for pi o eeding with the trial on the charge * tpecified in the report THK authorities of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, have agreed to send a detachment ot police to the Isle o Skye, if their expens s are paid, to assist in s-rving processes. Meantime te ants are organ zing for mutual protect on, and th eaienin/ any man who shall pay rent... .Thirty lives were iost by tho foundering of the steamer Winton in thd Black sea. ADDITIONAL NEWS. THE testimony of steamboat Captains and plots before the Congressional River Commission at New Orleans was emphatical- y in favor of the outlet plan and against the extravagant ievee system Capt. Leathers, who has be- n on tlic Miwiir-sippi longer than any man now living, and whose practical knowledge of the sui ject is probably not ex­ ceeded by thnt oi any man living, is an earn<!>-t dvocate of Ca >t Cowdon's plan of drawing o'f the excess of water through natural outle<s prepared withespeuifl ret- er»n--e to iha.t res ait, and an eijually earnest opponent of both the levee and the jetty systems. GLADSTONE denied in the British House of Commons that the Irish Arrears act was a failure, as the full benefits of its ¥revisions ha i not yet become apparent, r velvan, Secretary for Irelan I, informed the Hou*e that the Gov rament W' re d >ing their utmost to improve the cond tion of the © U'ltry, and would see to it that di^tra-s woul i be alleviated in whatever district it made its ap earunce. In the Commoi.s the is was carried by & «nt* of H:i i <JLthe Speaker beliti a^HH£E3H^!Ufj[oMni is vnaae for tile purpose of obstruction, he miy put t ie question from the chair... .On the appeal of Great Britain, the Spanish Government will liberate the Cuban re uget-s seized near Ma ta, on the promi e that they shall not re­ turn to Havana. THE war among the Northwestern railroads culminated last week in the Chicago Milwaukee an 1 St. Paul fixing the passenger r te at 50 cents between Chi ago an ! Bock Island, goln both ways, 'ihe Rock Island road retaliated bv making the fare from Chi­ cago to Oadar Rap ds 50 c-nts, and t > Albert Let #1. Freights from Chicago to Uankato and Sioux City were cut to 15 c ents per 100 by the Ro k slar>d, Ced-ir Rapids, and Oma a lines Fir at Morris Min ., desu oyed sev ra business struc'ures, in hiding the Tribune offlc . lh loss is v >riously estimated torn #54,000 to #150 0 -0, with hut p oport'onally small insurance Tue po tofli e auih >rt- ti - s em to have u n atrainst a ca -e or sys- tema lc m il-ro' >bei y *o ad o t as to baffle'ln- ves gatio i. The rol.-bo ies have occu-red for sevei al weeks in m-ils be ween Denver and Eastern cities, and without re;kon ng the t etis ot m-mey ,nd va ualiles, the ex­ tent of which it ;B iinpofisio e to correctly es- ilnia e, the hss^s n vir.dts, checks, money- Orders, eic., aggr tri'e over S*>'j0,000. PUBLIC PRINTING OFFtCE. i*ropus**d General Kngravlng Establish' meut. Public Printer Bonn Is will recommend to Congress that a photo-lithographic and gen­ eral engraving establishment be added to the Govei nment Prin ting Office. Almost ev ery one of the greater publications of the Government now involves more or less il- lust ration". The drawings, with tlie copy, are simply sent to the Public Printer, with directions to issue the books. The result is that a large amount of the appropriation for he office is annually consumed in ths manner, about w ici there is a good deal of uncertiintv un ler t te present plan of do ng tiiwork. There einr no appli- an';es at ' he Gover men Printing Office tor making lithographs, en ravings or maps, the Public Printer is oblig-d to alvertise for bids an 1 let ttie oontrac'. to ouis de p.trtios for d jimr th; wor%. The result is very <<ften that, i wing to an und-rsoan ling among i he lithogr tphers, of whicn tiiere are not mmy estab ishmen s, or from other cau e-t, it is impo >tb.e t> get i very lov rate for the w >rk wiii h Is obiiire 1 to oe done. The low est respo s:ble bidders hiving s * ur-.t 1 the ontr -ct, tsie pu li^aiio i of^ t ie volum • then depenIs upon tii-: primp nesa with w:.i h they exe.;ute t eir agree n nit Th • Pu lie Printer ma. have all the f/ype set or ev.in the leti • press r *aly, an 1 tho.i have to w lit vcek-i an I oerhaps mo iths i f' ri> the volume can be oound, o.viivf :o tie delavs in t!i; d-liverv of th) il.u trat ons. Th :re ire tw » great objects t • be ^a n-vl hy the g v.irnai^iiu do ng its owa wjrit--cheao- nevi an • ran li v CHIEF ENGINEER WRIRHT. His Kiver and Hai l>or lo 1HS3-S4 Gen. Writrht, Chief <\}' Engineers, in his an nua i.eport to the Secretary of War r?o m- mends tlie expenditure of t^ie amountsinen- ti >:.e 1 below duiing ^he fiscal year ejt»dia< June 30, IS84: For the improrem^nt of Western rivers and harbors: Mississippi river, beiw -en Il­ linois and Ohio rivers, 91,0 0,000--tin appro-/ priation a«ked for to Ik; applie ' to comph-t- in,' the works n'>\vnropres ing,and ' oginnin new works tielowFo^trr's iniand; removing snag-; from the Mississippi, from th J mouth of t,.e Missouri io V cksburg, 9170,<!00; r m ving snags fr >m the Mi souri liver. SlOS.Ov.O; for snagboat, to l e used abi.ve Omaha, 180,000; suivey of the M s^our1, trom the mouth to Fort Benton, Montana, $5j,OOo ; imp ovement of tt-e M 8-.oitri, from tiie mouth to i-i-'ux City, 91 OC'0,000; estimated ami unt require t to compl : o ex­ isting project, 97,15j,»00; imp ovin>/ the Mi-sissippi: From St Paul i«D * Moiue ra ids, 9750,000; from Des Mo no, r p ds to mouth i f Illinois river, 950>.000; r s r-olrs upon headwaters of M^sissppi, 9500,000; improvement Ohio river, 9»s0.000; Du lu h harbor, 910'>,i 00; harlx.'r of ief.1 e Mil- ^'aukee bay, 9.i 0,0*'; WI cont-in river, 9500,- 000- Ciiic it'o harbor, $2 0,o * ; Ulin is ri v. r, 9*22r>,000; M.chigun City (lnd.) haroor, 9200,- 000i Ueveiawl harbor, 9miu,oou. • | IRON AID STEEL. Til ^Depression Caus 1 Overproduction. i- # The Situation Probably Hot So Bad •»*Sapreaentetf. v A ttnilluT of iron and steel rarts of the oountry are to clo*e down with­ in a month or two for reasons which may be div ded into two classes: First, the depres­ sion in the iron and steel traffic; and, sec­ ond, the anticipation of free-trade legisla! ion on the part of the next Congress. As to the .'.utter conslde;ation, Judpe Kel ey, of Penn­ sylvania, Bays that th-; next session of Con­ gress can not extend beyond seventy days, and 'that even were the Committee on W ys and Means disposed to refo m the tar­ iff it w mid bs an impossibility to get a bid through n the time that would be left a'ter dispo ing of the appropriation bids and the i.undro h of measures that will necessarily en timber the Speaker's table. In reference to the dei>r s«ion n the b isiness Ethan A Hitchcock, Pre-ident of the St Louis Ore and Ste d Company, says: The price of Fteel rails has fallen from $80 to $45 ner ton, and pig ir n ou'y .from 9-5.5J to 934. The fall in st el rails*was due, he said, to overpro­ duction. Iu one year theeslimated capacity o the steel mills of the United States had increased 900.(00 tons. The probable de­ mand for next year would be about 1,(100,000 to i", as against a possible outputof 2,150,00) tons. If ihe demand should prove to be 50 per cent of the capacity, all the mills could not work full time. And the probability was that nex' year there would be but litt e rail­ road building, and rails would be needed for reconstruction and repair alone. G oomy apprehensions are entertained by oth - r firms. The manager of the Bethleh m (Pa. ) Iron and Steel Works says the materials produced at his works are about as low as they o m go, and the outlook is a dull one. Gen, Lilly, of Maueb Cnunk, cays the busi­ ness outloo -; is gloomy, orders uiven for bar Iron having been countermanded in a large number of instances, and there being uncer­ tainty on all s des. 'i he President of the Thomas Iron Company, in Pennsylvania, re­ ports a t<im lar cond it on of things at Cata^a- qua and Hokendauqua. The large works of the Lack iwanna Company, oi Scranton, Pa , have shortened their time schedule. The laborers throughout the Lehigh valley are anxious about the future. The-e apprehension* are not shared, how­ ever, by all the manufacturers. The Tyrone (Pa) torges resume operations next wty k, and will run on fu l tifhe. In Coatesville, Pa, though the proprietors consider the out­ look gloomy, all the mills are busy and plenty of orders are on hand. The output ot the Edgar Thompson steel works, Pitts­ burgh, has been reduced to two-thirds > f their capacity, and tlie company say that among the manufacturers the questioii is the survival of the fittest, or, rather, the fattest pocket They could sell at 942 a ton if they could get coke and ore and wages down, but had never gone below f45. In Bridgeton, N. J., the iron foundries are very busy. The Cleve­ land (Ohio) rolling-mills are not to be shut down, and the Bay View works, near Mil­ waukee, which have not made any steel rails for some time and shut down tfie iron-rail mill i hree weeks ego, will not be affected except through the sympathy inevitable to all lines of the Iron business. The North Chicago, the Union Iron and Steel mills, the Jollet and the Vulcan mill of St Louis are still running, but will have a conference with their hands about Jan. 1 relative to wages for the ensuing year, when the emploVvs will probably d mand a decrease of from 20 to 25 per cent, on present rates The trouble is attributed in Chicago to the Scranton Mtnpany, which cut prices from 945 to MS a tor i, since which time sales have been mad««tt 940, the price at which thev are now quoted in Eastern circulars, and at whioh the President of toe Union Iron and Steel Company Bays they cannot be made here. A Philadelphia^^p itch says: Thorough lnqui y all over the city and in all the lead- ng man faeturin/ rente s of the State do not warrant the pplni n tha'. the iron and steel trade s in Mbad condition as has been represented. Inmed, James M. S vank the Secretary of tqHKjLmerican Iron and Steel in j the bcst-isfcrni"^1 d'to-day: "jit baa _ _ Tne sCeei-rail in­ dustry is in a very depressed condition, and the d mand t. r oth r ir n and steel products is not equal to the expectations of a few months ago, b it there is no occasion for any ex itement or alarm. Prices 1 ave been gradually declining since last spring; there Has been no su iden decline, not even in steel raila I do not beiieve that the pres­ ent Congress, nor he Congre s which has jostbsen elected, will be so unwise as great­ ly to r«duee the duties UDon iron and steel, and nence I feel entirely "hopeful of the fut­ ure of tho-ie industries. Low prices ore not neces*ari y an evil" A Washington dispatch states that it is beneved there " by many Congressm n and others who favor a revision of the tariff laws that the sensational reports of a general suspension of steel production are designed to intluenee Congress against any reduct on of the enormous measure o "protection which the iron and steel in­ terests already enjoy. Indications are not lacking to show that there is a good deal of method and system in the attempt to i right- en the country into the convic ion that noth­ ing short of a prohibitory tariff will prevent a cene al coilapse or the iron and steel man­ ufactories of thj United States." CHALMERS YS. MANNING. The Governor of Mississippi Will Certify to 4l»« iattei 'i Election--Chalmers Vigorous­ ly Protests. [Telegram from Jackson, Miss.] Considerable interest is taken in the elec­ tion matter of Chalmers and Manning, late' candidates for Congress in the Second Mis­ sissippi district Secretary of State Myers to­ day canvassed the votes, and decided in Manning's favor. The case occupied tLe gre iter part of the day. Gen. Chalmers was " present, and was aided by CoL Nugent, of the Jackson bar, in representing his interests. Immediately upon the rendering of the.de- cision the Governor issued the certificate to Van H. Manning. As It has been generally conceded that Chalmers was elected by a handsome majority it has occasioned a nine days' wonder. The case turned upon trie vole ot 'la' e county. The certificate from the County Bo ird of Commissioners of Elec­ tion declared that Van H. Manning had received 1,166 votes and J. II Chal- mers 1,473. As appears from the foregoing tal v-sheets this was duly and ofllcially signed, buf. en the reverse side of the cer­ tificate was the tally-sheet where "J. R Cdambies^' appeare i credited with 1,472 votes. This ta ly sheet was in a different handwriting, and was not r.fflcially signed. Mr. Myers held that the tally sheet was beter evidence of the intention' or' the Com- missionei s tiiau a certificate, it was claimed by GeiL Chalmers that it this was true, if t i:e tally ^hect was neceHsary, the votes or Tip­ pah, Union, and De Hjto counties should bo thr wn oui, as there was none inclosed, which would st 11 give him a majority. The Secretary of >tate held differe'nily, giving tie 147! votes of Tat- countv io "J. li. Ch mbiess," and none to Chalmers, and us- tiimng thj returns in the other counties. T .o vo„e, as officially announced, rends": Manning, S,749; Chalmers S.-.'.VT; Cham bless, 1,47 ; farter, ISO, Manning's plurality over Chalinein. I'.cS. (ien. <'haimer- sued out an Iniunc ion from the Circuit i ourt enjoining t/ie Secretary of State from giving a eei tifi- •Sate of election to Manning, also a manda­ mus from tiie same c-jurt, both ot which were dis i^ardo I. ' He will at once en er u on a vigorous con tost. Proof was offered but no admitted that tiiere was no su b ca idid .tc as J It. Chamb! ss." It is the opin on of the bar here and other eminent visiting lawyers that the decision of the Sec­ retary ot State is correct, and that the Cir­ cuit J.idg •'« ntorferenoe was without au­ thority oi aw. ply in the Chinese province of Shansi alone will last the wjyrld about 4,200 years. ^ CTI0N TABLEST Sli Coal in China. When the supply of coal gets short elsewhere, the world can turn to China for "b'ack diamonds." Baron, Riclitho- !©n shows that in that country tho sup- p y of anthracite coal is not less than 030,000,000,000 of tons, and the bitu­ minous coal area is just as large. The Baron thinks that, taking what is left in other parts of the world with the Chinese coal area, we need not fear a fuel famine' He think* that the sup> £al- VOT* or HKW TOXM. The complete official vote of New York forN Governor at the reoent election la herewith appended:-. « Counties. - - Albany Alleirany Breome Catta'-ansrus Cayuua Chautanqua Rep. 10,811 8,718 4,691 4, 06 4,808 Chemung. 3,080 Chenango.... Clinton. Columbia.. Cortla- d. Delaware Dn'choss Erie Essex Frmkiin. Fulton Goopsee (5r-ene Hamilton Herkimer Jefferson Kings Lewis. Livingston Madifton Monroe Montg 'mery......'. New York.'........ Nl'icara. .i Oneida Onondaza Ontario.. Ornnge Orleans Oswego Otn€KO................ Putnam Qu<-ens . Rensselaer...................., Richmond. Rockland. St. Lawrence................. Saratoga Schenectady. Schoharie. Schuyler....'.....,.^........., Seneca. Stenben Suffolk Sullivan T i o a . . Tompkins.... Ulster Warren W ashington. Wayne Westchester...... Wyoming..................... Yates Folgcr, Cleveland, -- Dem. 20,793 8,778 6,060 5, 79 6,830 6,207 «,B96 4.3A8 8.56) 6,703 3,"11 4,5tW 8.87S 28,748. 2,l-i(V 2,29 ( 3.115 3,518 4,481 522 8,1-*1 7,190 86,381 3.78T 3,966 4,328 13,143 5.S74 12S,345 6,K84 13,874 11,568 6,271 8,878 3.116 6,758 6,84t 1,692 8.663 33,713 4,370 3,078 S,220 6,277 2,836 4,964 2,165 8,6'8 8,997 6,387 3.461 3,683 3,616 8.470 2,677 4,190 4,296 11,106 2,909 2,073 8,918 4,318 3,007 2,998 4,331 7, 91 18,(08 2,946 3,074 2,801 2,898 2^08 272 8,701 ,4.488 26,136 2,447 3,68) 3^12 11,088 .. 8,027 47.714 . 3,266 . 8,741 .. 11,629 .. 4,675 . 6,641 :: 25S .. 4,730 .. 1.828 . 8,800 .. :0.4ft8 . 2,012 .. 1,778 ,. 9,284 .. 6,185 .. 2,804 .. 2,078 .. !,171 .. 2,701 .. 6,577 .. 4,815 .. 2,266 . 3,143 .. 2,890 .. 6,140 .. 9,660 .. 5,929 .. 4,264 .. 8,748 ... 2,128 .. 2,601 ..342,303 T-tals............ 342,303 836,294 Plurality 193,991 THE VOTE IN PENNSYLVANIA. The oSioial returns from all the counties In Pennsylvania s ow the following results: OOVBUNOB. e Pattison. Demecrst 36«,991 Beaver, Rejinbtican 315,589 Stewart, Independent Republican......... 43,713 Armstrong, Greenback-Labor 23,9i>i5 Pettit, Prohibition. 6,1!)6 Scattering 50 Pattlson's plurality 40,40.1 LIEUTENANT OOVERNOB. . Black, Democ at Davis. Republican Duff, Independent. Republican Howard, Greenback-Labor Williams, Prohibition Scattering Black's plurality CONGRESSMAN-AT-LABQK. Elliott, Democrat Browins, Republican McMichael, Independent Republican. Lumblinaon, Greenback-Labor. Pierce, Prohibition. ftcatt- ring.. ....8S3,642 ,.. .f:l7,t;i4 43,57? .... 19,476 .... 4,frVi 4,003 .... 36,028 ....351,043 323,255 4o,995 20,4 >0 .... 4,643 .... 691 .... 27,788 Kill ott's plurality KANSAS. The official returns of the election of Nov. 7 In Kansas, as published by the Atchison Champion, give John P. St John, for Gov­ ernor, 71,860 votes; George W. Glick, Demo­ crat, 79,732 vote", and Charles Rftbinson, 90,- 512. For Lieutenant Governor. D. W. Fin­ ney, Republican, received 94,250 votes - Prank Bacon, Democrat, 58,740, and J. G. JBayne, 22,79J. INDIANA. The vote of the State of Indiana cast at the la e election for Secretary was as fol­ lows: Total vote cast for Hawn, 010,169; for Myers, 22-1,978; Democratic plurality. 10,8 ^9. The v<>te cast for Leonard, National candi­ date, was_l3,129. The total vote of the State •» «(<): vole in i8«i was 47„C7ia. a of SB.30& Th* has decreased 21 <.195 and the Democratic 4,514, while the National vote is increased 148. ABKAXSAS. Returns from the Congressional election In Arkansas, less one small county, show a total vote for Congressman-at-La ge: Breck- enridge, Democrat, ^,8i7; Cunningham, Green hacker, 21.394. Total, 64,721, le>s than half the vote polled at the State eleotiou in September. ILLINOIS. Complete official returns have been re­ ceived by the Illinois Secretary of State from all the oounties in the State of the late elec­ tion, held Nov. 7. They give the following result. For State Treasurer, mith, Repub­ lican, 254,512; Or. ndort, Democrat, 249,067. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, Strattan, Republican, 250,270; Raab, Demo­ crat, 2rvi, 14o; Smith's plurality, 5,475; llaab's plurality, 2,809. MELVILLE'S PATHETIC STORY. A Graphic Description of tho Finding o< DeLong and Party. A Washington telegram say-c In the Jean- nette Court Engineer Melv Ue continued his account of the search for De Long and party. Ti e narrative was very pathetic, and the sj>eaker told the story in a straightfor­ ward manner. He gave details of the di»- covery of the party fronen to death on the banks of the Lena. The attention of the searchers was first attracted by hut poles sticking out of the snow. Upon seeing these, the party advanced a few steps wtien they saw a hand reaching out in the snow, which alterward proved be De Long's. The rest of the p.rty then discov­ ered the remains of a fire m ar them, and evidenc s that the unfortunate men had been tiyiog to remove their effects, with supposed view of reaching the banks ot the river. Melville said they evidently reoog- nized the fact that if they died near the oank of the river their bodies would be carried away by the flood. Meiviile examined l>e- LongV journal, found near where the body lay. ' , The bodies were all frozen to the ground, but as soon as discovered were pried up, ro led tog- ther and covere 1 with tent cloth It wi.s round when Ambler's body was turned over that he clutched DeL ng's pis­ tol From this Meiviile drew the inference that D Long died beiore Amb or, an i that the 1 itter had taken the pistol to keep off animala M-lvllle gave directions to nave D Long's bodv taken out ot the snow and placed in a hut nearby. He also directed that the remaining bodies be very carefully preserved, and any artlcie found on their persons. SUPERVISING INSPECTOR DUM0NT. His Keport upon the Steamboat Inspection Service. Supervising Inspector General Dumont, in his annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30 last, gives the tollowiug statistics of the steamboat inspection service: Number of vessels insp ofe l, 5,117; tonnage of same 1,298,564; officers licenced, 20,467, s owing an increase over the previous ye ir in t-ie number of vessels ot $18. in tonnage of 74.- 561, and toe number ot licen- ed officers, The total receipts from all sources during tho y ar w re $27S»,8Sfl.:)0; total expendi­ ture', $227,015.03; receipts over expendi­ tures, S52,27:i 07. The total number of ac­ cidents to sre im vessels during th - jvar, re­ sulting in loss or life, were foriy-ona^ i. ves lost Irom accidents to steam vess Is 205, of which but tilty-six we' e lives of passengers. Total oersons car ied during the year, H54 - 070,447. Tnis number ivided by 2i5, the number of lives 1'Ht, shows one life lo-tto each 1,727,172 per-ons carried, an ng .inst o e life lo t in each 55,714 persons carried in the fifty-one yearH previous to the enactment of the first efficient steamboat laws. In the year last-named ther were 39,000,000 p .ssen- ger-> carried, and 700 l vcs lose. NANCY Lke is 107 years old and lives in Lexington, Ky. She is not the fa­ mous "sailor's wife," but a negress who lived on the site of Lexington before iwm wa» ever thought of. A BUSY LIFE ENDED. Death of Thurlow Weed, the Veteran Journalist and } ' J J Politician. 1; \. s A Brief 8ketcli of Sis Active and Useful Career. Thurlow Weed, the veteran editor, politi­ cian and statesman, breathed his last at his home in New York, at 8:55 o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 22, after an ill. ness lasting several weeks. At his death­ bed were his children, grandchildren, friends and attendants. He passed away as though going into a gentle sleep, with his granddaughter's hand reposing in hia Mr. Weed was possessed of a remarkably strong and vigorous constitution, and to this can b-e attributed the long years of his tiie. His physicians say that old age was his only iuflrmity, and the one that carried him off. Since 1877 Mr. Weed's eyesight has I een fa ling, and latterly he had been almost blind Last August he wis prostrated by a chill, and has since been de lln ng. Mr. Wed leave < a considerable fortune in­ vested in New York real estate, and in the Stock of tho Alhmy Everting Journal. He had three daughters--Mrs. Barnes, of Al­ bany; Miss Harriett Weed, who was his c- n- stant companion and housekeeper since th j death of his wife, many years ago, and Mrs. Alden, of Morrtsania. It is a curious incident that some weeks before his death, alth ugh then in good health Mr. Weed had a presentiment that he wa-t near his end About four years ago a beautiful white dove Hew into the window of h 8 chamber, and was adopted by him as a pet. It has been his constant companion, roosting u|K>n the arm of his chair by dav and upon the foot of his bed by night. He led it with his own hand", and the gentle bird curiously enough would acoept food from no one e se. Some weeks ago he acci­ dentally sat upon t, crushing out its inno­ cent life, j nti his sorro v was as genuine as if he had lost an only child. The death of the bird affected him seriously, and he spoke to his fr ends of a presentiment that he sho ild soon die, and men'ione t his belie in tiie poetical theory of t e ancients that the spii its of doves surrounded t edeath-bedsof the iust. Thurlow Weed was born in Cairo, N. Y., on the 15th day of November, 1797, and was the fl'st-born of paren s in lowly circumstances, and at an early age he was compelled to work to aid h mself and his tamiiy. At the age of 9 he worked for a blacksmith at tat kill, N. Y, from whom he received a shilling a day : nd t is board. He subse­ quent y worked in a tavei n and sailed on a sloop as cook. At al out this time young Weeds father removed bis family to Onondaga, where the bo. f< und work ' with the I'ostmas er, who enabled him to reoeive six months' shoo ing the only tuition he ever enjoye L In It'll a paper, the Lynx, was started in Onondaga, to the fortunes of which he attached himself its a printer's apprentice, at which business he served a year and a half, when his employer left the city. Weed continued to run the paper for several weeks. In 1812 he volunteered for service in the war as a private under Col. l'etrie and was ordered to Sackett's Harbor. B-fore reaching that point he reoeived a Quartermaster's comra sslon, for which he ever after coerls ed the k ndliest feelings toward COL Petrie, and when the latter met with re­ verses Mr. Weed aided him materially. He served during three camnaL ns in the war and during the intervals worked at his trade in Utica and other c>ties oi New York. After the war he was emp oyed in Seymour's printing office, New York citv, where he be­ came intimate with Jame-<, the eldest of the Hurper brothers. Returning to the country he was married, and then embarked in the extremely-uncertain pursuit Of publish­ ing a oountry p per. The difficul­ ties he encountered were numer­ ous, but his industry and ability had their effect His paper was called the Anti- Masonic Enquirer. At that time there was great excitement oyer the opposition to Ma^ sonic in8titutlona In 1824 he was a^ain found dolntr the work of a journeyman printer fn Albans- Political iw itfnpxmr, wm. runrflng -fciffh, 'and Martin V.irr uureii, Dewitt Clinton and others equally fam us in the politics of the Stale were there. Thurlow Weed here virtually began his career. His wonderful now rs oi man­ agement were first noted. In this c imp ilgn he did the lion's sha e of the work which resulted in the election of John Quincy Ad­ ams to the Presidency. Mr. Weed i.ext re­ moved to Rochester, wlv re, while he sus­ tained manv reverses, his reputation as an edit or steadily grew. Twice he was elected to tlie Assembly as an anti-Masonic represen­ tative and bis po itical influence was so wide y felt that he soon came to be recog­ nized as a lea-Jer, and to him was accorded the honor of the v ctory which placed DeWitt Clinton in the guberna­ torial chair of New York. In 1N30 he was chosen to lead the Whigs against the Dem. cratio party, which then controlled the affairs of the State, and it was through hi- effort^ tnat the Democrats suff­ ered i heir fir t defeat He went to elbany and assumed editorial man tement of the Evening Journal, which soon gained n na­ tional reputation and influence. The politi­ cal hi-tory of the State for fortv years shows ho w he used his op ortunities. He was piomincnt in sccur ng t >e nomination of candidates Harrison, Ta\ lor, Scott, Fre­ mont and Linco n. When the Republican party was o.ganzed, Mr. Weed joined the young par y, and early n the civil war he W.ib i-ent i o England, where h i was in- R' rumental fn preventing > hat country and France fiom uniting in favor of the Confed­ eracy. M-. Weed act-d in unity with the Republican pa ty un ii the close of tha war, when he sided witii Pres dem Johns > in his reconstruct on views, but is intiuenoe has always b"en thrown toward the advanoe- ment of R -p iblicun pr.n iples, and has b en f it in every gr at political movement for the last,h.:df century. |make odd faces Jind find it nnpos- isible to stop. I doi> When I am ner- *ous and excited--lfct that man should ever be the one or the other, but I oc­ casionally am--I fi^d myself winking and blinking and ! screwing lip my cheek. It relieves something. I don't know what, but it does. I have been told by ladies that other ladies thought. I was winking at them, but life is too- short for that kind of sport. I don't do< it and I never did. It's habit. Thero are writers of my aequi Uance who- can't work unless they have a cigar in the mout\ I take dry smokes my­ self. Result--colic. Why ? ' Because^ the tobacco, b* intf more or less chewed,. I e ;omes moist, and, entering4i:e stom­ ach, raises the old Harry. Isn't it so, doctor? Why, certainly. Other fel­ lows tell me they would no more of speeding a fast crab on the! without a c gar than of broiling own baby for breakfast or even lunch. Beware of habit. J|tpowmen. who think themselves gentlemen--yet. ti ey swear like pirates. Not that I ev­ er saw a pinto or heard one indulge? profanely, but that's ^their reputation,, and next to being rich is to be thought so. Swearing is a terribly low habit, yet tens of thousands swear. But see.. Do they swear always and in all socie­ ty ? No not at all. They are in the: habit of swearing here and there, but- not everywhere. Ergo, it is a controll­ able habit, but still a habit.--JFhitudelr- phia Times. THE CUSTOMS SEBYICE. AGRICULTURE. Comtnlasfoner Loring'ii Annual Report Oeoree B. Loriny, Commissioner pf Agri- cul ure. in his annual report to the Presi­ dent, est mates the following as the grain yield for 18S2: : Bushels. on 000,600 Whrat 41MKX). 00 **ats i 470,000,000 Harley 4-\"00,000 • live ~ J. 20,00 ,000 Hiu-.k whe it > 12,000,000 " The business of manufacturing sup r irom sorghum at the «. epa'tmenr," says the repoit, "hiivtiur failed in 1881, an I h vinir lurnisned discouragement to those engaged in it, I have called upon sorghum manufact­ urers theqiscivcs for such information as they could furnish in an accurate manner tor the benefit of the Industry they repre­ sent 1 have a so made the same re- <juent, of the manufacturers of sngar ;rom beeta I have received assur­ ances from near.y 10j manufact­ urers that they will contribu e to this work, and feel confident I shall in this way r-eeive a great amount of valuab e in­ formation I have endeavored, from the be- gi'ivngofmy connec ion w th the epart- ment, so to conduct the work perf rmed here, as part of that inter-'Sting investigation into the values of s r^bum now go.ng on in tiie field ot the farmer and the mill of the manut' ,ctureran<l laboratory of the chemist, as to secure lor what appears to lie a grow­ ing industry all the information which un­ prejudiced science and the best practical skill c in provide; an i I trust the knowledge 1 have gathered will, when published, L.e found to be of value. Two -ites, both n Colorado, have been se­ lected for artesian wells In the forestry division increased activity has been shown, n special agent having been api ointed to collect information west of the Mississippi Abstract ot the Supervising Agent's Ifi |UH li Superrs'ng Special Ag nt Martin, of the* Treasury Departm nt, n hi annual report, for the fiscal year ending June 8 », 1882, B ows; tha the amount recoy r d on aocount of seizures, fines and snits was #89,579; ,iiu- creas' d duties, f 69. M6; ml seel an ons, #13^- 15 ; numbe of seizures, 217; appr sed value, 91,475 j ledu tlon in exp.-i se^ recom-- men'ied, ?18«J V; number of arrests, 54; number of reports received. S,976. Or' these reports, 58 relate to smuggti g, 3l9to- under valua ion 64tomisoonducto cus oms r fflcer-, 1 2 t seizures, 1 9 to imp»>ctio i of" customs rfi-tri ts. 15 to suits commenced, and. 2.2 9 to miscellaneous subjects. The Super­ vising Special Agent save: "To secure more: eflici- nt and honest admini-tration of cus­ toms service t lirough >ut the country, a con­ solidation of collection distric s and aboli­ tion f a large number of ports, at some of which there are no outies collected, and at, others where the exjvnses ore largely in ex­ cess of ihe receipts, would seem ab-olutely nece- sary, ami In this c nnection it is grati­ fying to know that during the last session of Congress a bill or ihe con olida^ion of all fees and givi g the Coll' ctors fixed Falaries w s int oduced by a member oi the House,, who was formerly a special a -ent and fa­ miliar with the wants of the servioe." Re- bdoc ing smu. gling, he says: "Through the- activity and vigilance of the officers, of this service, assisted large y by local customs officers, 8tniu>gling- has been confined to very narrow limits The seizure on the night of the «kL of January last of eaily a ton of opium valued at *26,(00, while &<a attempt, was be­ ing made to land it from the steamship City of Tokio at the wh*rf of the Pacific Steamship Company, is the largest and most- important case of smuggling discovered during the year. It is reported that the- business of Ofium smuggling on the Pacific: coast has been carried on by an organized, company, wh ch includes capitalists, Custom House employe-, steam hip employe^, local politicians and Chinamen. Alt cusi oms offi­ cers suspected of complicity w th smugglers' have t een dismissed from the service." On the subject of undervaluation, Mr. Martin* says: "Investigation, has shown that, upon> tue advice of an agent, foreign manufact­ urers often invoice consigned goods fa. be­ low the cost of production. It is estimated that less than 40 per cent, of the 60 per- c ntnm ad valorem duty ons lk is oollocted in consequenoe of the undervaluation of: that article." A MAIL MARYEL. Initiating:. Cheap I'oiibtge -- The Ghrlldk Combinei^oii I^ottor and Knvelope Adopt­ ed by tl>( Government. fWashinKton Telepram.] The Postmas; er General has taken a step* which it is believed in some quarters will, materially affect the future operat ons and. reforms of the department This wns in the conclusion o a contr act with Mr. Leo Ehrlich, of St Louis, for toe use of his recent ingen­ ious invention of coinbinati n letter-sheet- and envelope. The con ract was sijm >d to­ day. By ihe middle f Jtinuj.'ry the Ehrlich^ invention wi I be on ^ale at the principal IiosV'flic s in the country, in the shape o. a. etter-shet-t and « nve ooe and stamp, all tor* 8 >'en s,. and a cir -u ar letter and enve'ope- nd s amp foi-1 cent, ad-ling c ,-t o paper. The unstamped arti le will fi d its way into the mark :t th ou h tho s ati->nci y ivor.d. This is a retu'n to the simplicity of corres^ t ondence as it was before envelopes w -ri invented, withoutreturoi gt> hedi^advai- ages of sea.inv wax. tapers and wafers:* Th* single etter shee s >ne manufacmred w the guuim-d flaps, which, when the sh 6t. is folded, la i over the two open ed-'es a d e;ire the missive. Tin Governm -nt stamp s to be embossed on -ne-- of these fl ips, which come over like the flap n im en,v lope, an t the whole thing is licked, stamped and sealed wi .h the na ue motion. Im brimrs the stamp where he- old wafers and eal used to be, instead of being u on the uppjr right-hand corner. Th'» Postmaster will not be compelled o apply the can ellation stamp, as the letters cannot be opene t nor the embo s<:d stamp, removed witliou- d stroyin,p the stamp. Wliile he whole arrangement looks like a- iieat trick, the principal ad.anta^e is ita cheapness, both to the Government and to» the general pub ic. THE MARKETS. BEEVES. ...... Hoos COTTON. ................ Flxiun--Snnerflne. WHEAT--No. l White... No. 2 Red Cons--Kb. 1 OATS--Na 2. POKE--Mess LARD NEW YORK. $».00 012.50 6.50 @ 7.15 5.45 2.75 4.60 6.»> 5.50 5.00 M M .6* *1 .*2 .35 .06 17.W Habit. The force and power of habit, and es­ pecially the tobacco and whisky habit, j are something marvelous.' When chil­ dren suck the r tl umls we put as feti- da on, tied with rags. Sometimes that 8tops the habit. It didn't with me. For the sake of the thumb I swallowed the drug. In later years, when my lit­ tle girl sweetheart said the other girls j larghed at her because her beau (10 j years old) sucked his thumb, I stopped of my own free will. Love was more potent than Male ida Some children CHICAGO. BEEVES--(rood to Fancy Steers.. Cows and Heifers , . Medium to Fair Hoo*_ Flour--Fancy White Winter Ex. Good to Choice Sp'g Kx. WHEAT--No. 2t Rnrine • No. 2 Red Winter. Conv--VO. 2 OAT=--No. 2 1?YF--No. 2 TUTII.ET--Nn. 2. ftnTKn--Choice Creamery. --Fresh POP.k--Mess LARD MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 CORN--No. 2 ; OATS--No. 2 ,... Ryfi--NO. 2.. ;.. BA K T -EV--Na 2... PORK--Mess LARD ST. LOUI& Wrrr.AT--No. 2 Red CORX--Mixed OATS--NO. 2 Ryf PORK--Mess LARD „ CINCINNATI." WHEAT--Na 3 Red............ CORN OATS ••••••• RYE ? PORK--Mess V. LARD 'TOLEDO""* WHEAT--Na 2 Red CORN OATS--Na a.V. ^ DETROIT. Froun. WHEAT--Na 1 White! CORN--Na 2, Oats--Mixed PORK--Mess. 19.00 INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--Na 2 Red CORN--Na 2 OATS--Mixed . . _ EAST iilBERTT*, PA. CATTLE-- Best #.50 Fair. 5.50 „ Common. 4.00 ?<x" #.* -mm 10H® .w>Ki 3.20 @ 3.75 1.07 t.'is 1.07 m 1.09 J68 m .90 .46 & Al 20.75 C«21.(W .llHi(3l Hlfc r».io e? 3.90 (<H 5.W ® s.9» V* 6.75 C'fi S.50 & & .r« •3 27 (Sl7.a5 10^($ .11 .03 • .66 J)ft .55 .12 17.00 .11 .94 .66 .34 .56 18.25 11 (ft .94 .67 & « (?S .:i. (<817.5H & .11X .se <m .ns «-.6T .36 .57 ^staso & .ill*: .98 :8; .ns .67 $3 .38 & .62 Ci 18.00 (<£19.00 .11 .97 <3 .98 a « 00 « 4.5® -•* * '