NEWS OF THE DAY,
Keport of I . S. Treasurer Gilfillcn.
Washington, November 22.—From the
annual report ol' U. S. Treasurer Gilfillcn it
a]»pears that the receipts ol the government
compare very favorably with those of the
previous fiscal year and show an increase
from customs, internal revenue, and sides of
public lands ol $59,811,505, and a decrease in
those from miscellaneous sources of only
$11*2.079. The expenditures show a slight
increase of $695,074 in the aggregate as com
pared with the previous fiscal year, caused
by an increase of $22,395,040 in payments on
account of the Interior Department, but show
a decrease of $21,699,965 in expenditures for
interest and premium on the public debt, on
civil and miscellaneous accounts, and the'
War and Navy Departments. The balance
of public money on deposit in the treasury
and subject to »Irait at the dost* of business
June 30th, 1879, was $417,223,787. The re
ceipts during the year from all sources
amounted to $494,578,241, and drafts paid;
$708,190,900. After deducting the receipts
properly refunded and outstanding drafts,
then; was subject to draft at the close of
business June 30, 1880, $204,683,836, which
differs from the debt statement balance by
$359,543, which is explained in the appendix.
The business of the government involved a
transfer during the year of $11,053,357,882,
the greater portion through the medium of
accounts of this office and the remainder by
actual transportation of funds.
Fifty-eight National banks were organized
during the year, five failed, and twenty-one
went into voluntary liquidation, leavi»g 2,102
doing business. The amount collected from
the National banks by the Treasurer of the
United States for semi-annual duty occuring
during the year, was $7,591,770. The total
amount collected during the existence of the
National bank system is $100,361,469.
The report embodies a statement of the
liabilities and assets of the treasury for the
years 1877, 1878,1879 and 1880, from which
it appears that the gold and silver coin and
bullion ranged from $114,464,972 in 1877, to
$163,969,444 in 1878, to $222,807,368 in 1879,
and to $214,303,215 in 1880. The decrease
of $8,500,000 between 1879 and 1880 is repre
sented by a reduction in the gold balance of
$34,000,000, and in the increase in silver coin
and bullion on hand. The influences tend
ing to a decrease of the gold balance, have
been primarily the scarcity of notes, compel
ling payments of duty balance to the New
York Clearing House in gold coin. There
has been but a small amount of United States
notes and gold certificates presented for re
demption in gold coin. There has been dur
ing the year an increase in silver coin of
$15,977.970 in standard dollars, and of $7,
-'49,994 in fractional silver coin. Note assets,
including balances due from depository banks,
have decreased from $107,664,287 in 1$77, to
$93,417,282 in 1878, to $63,926,653 in 1879,
and to $42,402,314 in 18H0. The steady de
crease, tin* Treasurer says, is due in a great
measure to the withdrawal of notes caused
by the presentation of Clearing House certi
lieates outstanding having been reduced from
$31.335,000 in 1879 to $9,975,000 in 1880.
Another reason for the smallness of the note
balance, Gilfillcn adds, may lie found in the
falling oil' in note receipts, the revenues of
the government being now largely paid in
coin and silver certificates. From tables of
assets and liabilities of the government for
November 1st 1879 and November 1st, 1880,
it is shown that on November 1st, 1879, these
were $151,047,944, and on November 1st,
1880, these were $141,597,073 61 available
lor resumption. The amount of gold coin
and bullion in treasury on January 1st, 1879,
the date of resumption of specie payments,
was $135,382,639, and at this date, November
K it is $140,725,952.
Keport ot the Indian Bureau.
Washington, November 21.—The an
imal report of the Indian Bureau for 1880
has l»eeu completed. It exhibits a continued
steady advancement towards civilization on
the part ol' nearly all the Indian tribes, and a
very remarkable progress in many instances,
especially among the Ogallalla and Brule
$ioux in Dakota, and the Pacific coast Indians
collected at the Yackima Agency. The de
mands upon the bureau by Indians of a large
majority of the agencies for implements with
which to enable them to perform manual la
bor aie far beyond the means at the disposal
of the department for that purpose. The de
sire of the Indians to labor Is steadily grow
ing. and large numbers are w illing and anx
ious to engage in civilized pursuits, and the
improvement in their manner of putting in
uid earing for the crops raised shows that
the efforts of the past few' years are gradu- f
% bringing them to a self-supporting con
dition. The number of Indians in the Uni
twl States, exclusive of Alaska, is reported
; 't 255,938, all of whom, except about 18,
°W. arc more or less under the direct control
01 agencies of the government. The civil
^•«1 Indians in the Indian Territory number
b0,560 and the uncivilized 17,750. There are
111 round numbers 25,000 Indians in Dakota
23,000 in New Mexico; 17,000 in Ari
/ona and 14,000 in Washington Territory.
Meacham Arrested.
Denver, November 21.—A. B. Meacham,
i te Commissioner, arrived at 7 o'clock
uud was shortly -after arrested as
accessory to the murder of A. D. Jackson,
0 " as killed by the Utes 14th of Septem
Postmaster-General's Report.
Washington, November 23.—The annual
l eport ol the Postmaster-General presents a
large amount ol statistical information con
cerning the operations of the department,
w hich lias already been published in abstract
reports ol his subordinate officers. Attention
Is invited to the statement of Assistant Post
master-General Brady respecting the Star
service transportation and last year's defi
ciency as worthy careful consideration. To
have restricted the postal service to the
meagre appropriations of 1879 would ha's e
rendered it entirely inadequate to the wants
of the people. He has carefully reviewed the
estimates of General Brady for the next fiscal
3 ear s mail transportation in all its branches
and approves ; .11 as being in accordance with
the probable requirements of the service. An
appropriation is recommended for the con
tinuance of special mail facilities on railroads
such as extra trains with mails only and the
acceleration ot regular trains carring mails
etc., which the people have enjoyed for sev
eral years past. It is not doubted that regu
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Lu and frequent means of mail steamship
communication with the Mexican, Central |
American, South AinerieA, and trans-Pacific
poils, would prove important auxilleries to
Aiuericon commerce, and I think it w ould be
a w ise measure of public policy to encourage
by appropriate legislation the establishment
by our own citizens of American lines of
steamers to such ports as w ill in the judg
ment of Congress promote our cammercial
interests. I think it would be a w ise meas
ure to so amend the general law on the sub
ject as to authorize the payment by the Post
master-General of a just and reasonable com
pensation within prescribed maximum limit
and commensurate with the importance of
the service performed, to such lines of Amer
ican steamers as may be employed under
contract with this department in transport
ing mails of the United States to Mexican,
Central American, South American, and trans
Pacific ports.
The money order system continues to grow
in popular favor. The superintendent of the
mono}' order system suggests a plan for the
reduction of fees, which seems entirely feasi
ble and which is commended to the attention
of Congress. HLs plan Is to reduce the fee
lor money orders not exceeding $5 to five
cents, to extend the maximum limit of an
order from $50 to $100, so that increased
commissions received for large orders may
offset the loss resulting from reduced fee for
small orders. The foreign money order busi
ness and letter-carrier system is in a highly
satisfactory condition. He thinks dutiable
goods through the mails from abroad should
be more numerous instead at'more restricted,
and should embrace all mail matter. He
strongly commends the plan of establishing
a postal savings system like that of Great
Britain and Canada, w here it is successful
and is a source of actual profit to the coun
try. It would be even more advantageous
here. It would require but little more work
and be a great boon to the people. He had
while abroad examined the postal telegraph
system. It has been perfected, extended
and cheapened largely since taken from pri
vate hands, and yields a profit to the royal
treasury. Is it time to question whether
this system should not be taken from private
corporations, whose managers seek only per
sonal gain and not to the convenience ol' the
public. He unhesitatingly endorses Key's
war on lotteries, and recommends decisive
legislation against them so far as the use of
the mails is concerned, in accordance with
the Supreme Court decisions. He also urges
legislation to deprive of the benefits of the
mails those newspapers which publish lot
advertisements.
f
mails those newspapers which publish lot
tery advertisements.
Annual Report of the Secretary of War
AVashington, November 21. —The an
nual report of the Secretary of A\*ar gives
general review of the various subordinate re
ports, calls attention to their several recom
mendations, and details at length the opera
tions of the Department during the year.
Upon the subject of expenditures, appropria
tioas and estimates the Secretary says: The
expenditures for all affairs under the control
of this department for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1880, were $39,924,774. Congress
appropriated for the service for the current
fiscal year, $41,993,630. The estimates for
the service of the fiscal year ending June 30,
1882, are $43,627,055. Estimates in detail
were originally submitted to me for $62,
429,770, but on a revision of the same omis
sions and reductions were made as follows :
In the civil establishment, $13,585 ; in the
military establishment, $250,000 ; public
works, $18,514,129; miscellaneous classes
making the total of the revisory reduction
$18.802,714. ____
Cut Down.
► Chicago, November 22.—The Inter-Ocean '*
Indianapolis special says : Through the
failure of the Marshal of the 8th district to
properly make returns the plurality of Gen.
Garfield in the State is cut down to 3,771.
The State law requires that on the third
Monday in November the Marshal whom the
Governor appoints for each Congressional dis
trict shall make returns of the vote for that
district to the canvassing board, who shall
declare the result. No return was made to
day from the 8th district, but the result in
the State was not affected thereby. It Is
probable that the Marshal of that district,
who is a thoroughly reliable man, failed in
some way to be notified by the Governor of
bis appointment. The loose and worthless
law will now probably be amended. It Is
narrow escape for Indiana.
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Election Held Tuesday, November 2d, 1880.
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heavier and the prospects nre that the river
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ther along the canals has stopped navigation.
St. John, N. B., November 22.—It 1« very
cold. The river Is lrozen up. AY inter has
set in in earnest.
Petersburg, Va., November 22.—This Is
the coldest day of the season. There is skat
ing in some localities.
Poughkeepsie, N. A., November 22.—The
cold iuereases. The river is full of ice, and
no boat will be able to get through to Al
bany after to-morrow.
Albany, November 2*2. —Telegrams receiv
ed by the Auditor from Utica, Rome, Syra
cuse, Rochester, Tonawanda and Fort Ed
ward speak of cold, ice and snow r , and state
that the canals are closed at the points nam
ed. lee breakers and all the men that can
be put to work on them are employed, and
unless the present cold snap continues the
canals will be reopened. At Schenectady the
ice in the canal is four inches thick. It is
estimated that there are 7,000,000 bushels of
grain afloat. A telegram this afternoon from
AATiitehall announces that the Champlain
canal was frozen over this morning with ice
two inches thick. Every effort will he made
by the canal officials to get boats through.
\t AATiitehall, at 5 a. in. to-day, the ther
mometer indicatçcl nine degrees below zero.
Toronto, November 22.—The gale yester
day was the most severe ever experienced on ;
Lake Ontario. The following disasters to
the shipping are reported: The schooner
Guelph and AA r ave Crest is ashore at French
man's Bay. A schooner, „supposed to be the
Queen of the Lakes, is ashore at Scarboro
heights. Another schooner?hame unknown,
is reported ashore near CôriSeen. As far as
known no lives were last.
New York, November 23.—The sudden
cold snap has frozen fast the commerce of the
canals and set all the produce exchanges in
an uproar. If the cold should continue and
the canals be closed from this time on, it will
lie the earliest date for the stoppage of navi
gation in more than thirty years.
Reading, November 23.—The cold has j
closed the Schuylkill and Union eanaLs. The j
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have stuck. The river is nearly frozen over.
Bardenton, N. J., November 23.—The
Delaware river Is frozen over.
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Albany , N. A., November *~3. Advices j
from various points along the canals state 1
that the blockade continues and the present :
The weather is
outlook is not favorable,
moderating slightly.
San Francisco, November 23. —Dnriug
the day a light rain has prevailed throughout
the northern and central portions of the State
and the indications favor its continuance.
Danville, Va., November 23. —Last night
was the coldest for 3'ears. The thermometer
marked 17 degrees above zero.
Long Branch, November 23.— John Cook,
aged five years, was frozen to death last
night.
Poughkeepsie, November 23.—Ice is form
ing constantly. It Is a little warmer now.
Boats with difficulty reached Albany last
night.
Quebec, November 23. —It is now pretty
certain that the vessels ashore in tbe river
and thase remaining in port will be frozen
in. The result of the sudden and unprece
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dentedly severe frosts here are almost sure to ; of
be destructive to hundreds
of thousands of
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dollars worth of property.
of thousands of
Garfield's Seat in the Senate.
Chicago, November 23— The Inter-Ocean 's
AVashington special says : Should the Demo
cratic programme of keeping ont of his seat
by a long-winded contest the successor of
Garfield in the Senate, the Republicans can
promptly retaliate. Jas. G. Fair, the bonanza
millionaire, who lives in Kan Francisco,
notoriously procured his election to the Sen
ate from Nevada by the purchase of the Leg
islature. Objection can properly be made to
his being seated on the ground that his elec
tion w as procured by bribery. His case is
one that would require full as much debate
before its settlement as could that of Gar
field's successor, and so the plot to deprive
the Republican side of one vote in the Senate
while interminable debate was continued in
the Ohio case, would be balked 1)3' the ex
clusion through the same tactics of Fab
New Jersey Vote.
Trenton, November 23.—The official vote
of the State is as follows : For Governor—
Ludlow, 121,066 ; Potts, 121,015; Hoxie,
,759; Ransom, 195. Electoral vote—Gar
Field, 120,555 ; Hancock.122,565; Greenback,
267 ; Temperance, 195.
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Northern Pacific Railroad.
Chicago, November 14.—The Times' Ph
nd elphia special says.—Charles D. Wright,
one of the directors of the Northern Pacific
Rail road Company, who returned from New
York late last Saturday, was at his office to
day and said negotiations were closed Friday
! night between the company and a syndicate
of American and European bankers, unde
which the syndicate Is to furnish $40,000,000
j for the completion of the road. Mr. Wright
said the names of the bankers composing the
syndicate would be published from the eom
; pany's office in course of two or three days.
;
Meantime he did not feel at liberty to give
the names. He said, however, they were no
better names in America or Europe. It is
understood that the leading members are
I Drexel, Morgan & Co., August Belmont &
Co., Winslow, Lanier & Co., and J. & W.
Selegman, New York, and Morton Rose &
Co., London. Air. AA 7 right said it would be
j improper just at present to give the exact
terms of agreement, hut he would say that
the syndicate w ere to take bonds of the Com
pany on a scale ranging between 9 and 10
per cent. The road would be completed
within three years. As you know, said Air.
AA T right, rails w ere Laid across the Montana
boundary, 177 miles west of the Missouri
river on November 10th, when the silver
! spikes were driven. To-day the rails are laid
Within thirty miles of the Yellowstone. The
i grade is completed to the A*ellowstonc and
rails will be laid during the present month.
The graders are now working up the Yellow
stone and during the winter the road will he
completed to Aides City. From Fort Keogh
there is only about 800 miles of road re
maining to lie built, and about 300 miles of
this will he constructed during tlie coming
year. AYe shall soon ship rails around the
Horn to he laid on the w estern end. At the
same time we are pushing work in Alon
taua and will reach Bozeman or Helena
during the year, thus giving an outlet to
that wonderfully rich and fertile part of the
Territory. 'Hie line, as at present located,
runs through Bozeman, but there is a pos
sibility of it being carried further to the
north, so as to strike Helena. Chief En
gineer Anderson has reeentty been over the
route from the end of the track to Lake
Pen d'Oreille in Idaho, from which point
southwestwardtoAValla AValla, on theColum
Dia river, a section of road is finished. From
^ a ^ a ^ a ^ a to Puget Sound, there is
almost 200 miles of road yet to be built. The
other600 miles is the distanced across Montana,
Within the last ten days the company has
bought 300 miles of steel rails which w ill lie
laid durin the
is laid durin £ the <*>mmg year.
W ashington Items.
' Washington, November 22.—Col. Aloul
i ton, Secretary Sherman's brother-in-law, be
lieves Sherman will be the unanimous choice
I of the legislature for Senator, as he is of the
1 people of Ohio. Also, that the complications
of the Ohio Senatorial question have been
magnified. There w as no law of Congress to
meet this case and the legislature would
therefore definitety settle it.
In Republican political circles to-day there
was quite a buoyant feeling on the subject of
party control in the Senate after the 4th of
nextAIarch. Heretofore the Republican papers
have rested mainly on the attitude of Gen.
Alahone, but to-day it Is hinted a case will
be made up against Fair of Nevada and ob
jection raised to his admission, on the ground
; of notorious bribery and corruption in the
election of members to the Legislature. It is
claimed that there has been no concealment
of the fact that large sums of money w ere
spent in the interest of Fair to secure the
election of a Legislature favorable to him,
and that names, dates, and amounts can and
will be given. It is quite true that there has
been much talk about the use of money and
other improper influences in controlling the
Senatorial contest in Nevada.
Congressman Hauk (Tenn.) says that May
nard will be the only senatorial candidate and
will likely receive votes from several Demo
crats who desire to support the administra
tion, and this will elect him. Bailey has
most of the present strength of the Demo
crats.
Judge Lawrence says there is nothing in
the alleged possible deadlock in Indiana.
Porter becomes Governor by going to tbe
place designated by law and taking tbe oath.
It is understood that Garfield will be
urged to dismiss the Democrats in tbe em
ploy of the departments. It is said that
they constitute 60 per cent, of the working
force, having been wormed in by Democratic
Congressmen.
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Case.
New A'ork, November 2:2. —The Tribune's
AVashington special says : The correspondent
of the Tribune this evening had a conversa
tion with two gentlemen of high respecta
bility, who were in New' A'ork the week be
fore the publication of the Alorey letter, and
who learned something which may be of in
terest to people who are seeking to find out
who is responsible for the forgery. These
gentlemen were sitting in their hotel on
Friday, the 15th of October, when General
Averill, with whom they were acquainted,
came in and entered into conversation w ith
one of them. Averill said, as near as can be
remembered: "It is all right* I have just
come from Governor's Island. 1 cannot di
vulge to you what is going on, but it is a big
thing, and is going to turn this whole thing
altogether. AV 7 e lost Indiana. Hancock is
going to be elected, and don't you make any
mistake about it. This is as sure as you live.
There is something to be sprung on the other
side. I cannot tell 3 011 what it is. hut there
is a letter coming out, which you will see in
the papers. It may be published in two days
and it may be four or five. AA*e are going to
send it to tbe Pacific coast when it comes out.
Garfield cannot carry a single Pacific State.
He cannot carry the AA'est.''
Averill was very'emphatic. The gentle
man to .whom he made his communication
told the'*s , d)stanee of it to his companion,
and the two, who are Republicans, thought
nothing further ol'the matter until about a
week latter, at which time they w r ere in
Boston. They saw' the Alorey letter, and both
recognized it at once as the big thing to which
General Averill referred. The correspondent
is not at liberty to make public the names of
the two gentlemen, but they arc at the serv
the ice of the officers of the law', should General
to
Averill fail to remember the conversation
and the mystery to which he alluded.
Garfichl at Washington.
Harrisburg, November 23.—General Gnr
I field and wife arrived here at 1:30 and dined
with Senator Cameron, leaving for AA T asliing
ton at 3:25.
j General Garfield and wile arrived at AVash
ington this evening and were warmly re
ceived by a delegation of friends and admir
ers, but in accordance with his expressed
wish there was no great display.
Gen'l Grant.
New A'ork, November 23— General Grant
and John A\ T . Alackey were among the spec
tators of John AleCullough's performance of
A T irginius in the Fifth Avenue Theatre last
evening. The party subsequently visited
some of the morning newspapers.
newspapers.
&ITTE* S
Meets the requirement* of the rational medical
philosophy which at present prevails. It is a per
feetly pure vegetable remedy, embracing the three
important properties of a preventive, a tonic, and
an alterative. It fortifies the body against disease,
invigorates and revitalizes the torpid stomach and
liver, and effects a most salutary change in the
entire system, when in a morbid condition.
For sale bv all drmrgW* and dealers generaliv.
JNO, STEDMAN,
IRON AND BRASS FOUNDRY
AND
MACHINE SHOP.
New and second hand machinery bought »uw!
sold on commission.
A number of second haiid pc inps. steam engines,
etc., for sale. •
Corner CTore and I'rice^treetH, Helena.
M. T, dlmawtf-of t5