The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-29


at $97 500 for those from New York and $780, for
those from New Orleans With this route in operation
the Tehuantepec service ought to be dispensed with
Tho Postmaster General almost recommends the dscon
tinuance of the overland mail from San Antonio San
Diego totally unnecessary under any circumstances
The great overland mail he attempted to reduce from
semi-weely to weekly mail but found that he had no
power to do So He the route and
maintains that, without railroad it is impossible to
convey the whole of the Pacific mail overland as those
carried semi-monthy by the steamers weigh ten TONS
and would require ten coaches instead of one cost
the present rate, six millions of dollars per aDnum
The Kansas and Stockton mail dead failure. But
four through mails arrived at Kansas and only two at
Stockton One letter was all the matter that reached
Stockton, and two letters and twenty-sx newspapers
were an that reached Kansas VI THIS line SO miles
were the same as another mail service and while the de-
partment paid for both separately they carried in
one COACH most likely. The Independence and Placer
vile mails he also recommends to be stopped 1t has also
been reduced from weekly to semi-monthly mall at
reduction of Sll5 900 cost.
The mail service between Havana and Charleston and
Savannah by the steamship Isabel has been discontn
ued, as it cost 100000 per annum, and the from
it was but $IOO57 &C. The mails are taken now from
Charleston and Savannah Fernandina thence by the
Florida railroad to Cedar Keys and thence by the
New Orleans steamers to Havana at saving of $40 92 "a
per annum.
The report urges further legislation to enable the de-
partment to build new Post Office at Philadelphia. An
act passed in 1858 established Cos post routes
made no provision for their support One of these from
St. Paul to Puget Sound, would 5000 annually
They would all be unproductve, and have not been put
in operation During the year, SO, 1897 mail bags
purchased, being 9,937 than in the previous year
Contracts for four years have been made for the delivery
of bags at higher prices than those of the last contracts
As regards the foreign mails, the report says:
The aggregate amount of postage sea, inland and for
eign mails conveyed to and from Europe by the sew
eral lines mail steamers employed by this department
1884 G6s54 and by the British packets of the Cunard
line performing an equal number Of trips sSO5 600
The North German Lloyd and Hamburg lines of mail
packets also conveyed mails to and from Bremen and
Hamburg respectively the hostages which amounted
to S4S l5l7l making the total hostages United States
and European mails conveyed by all lines during the
year, 81 33S 1889.
steamships employed by this department under the pro-
vision of the act Of the 18th June 1885, (Which limits the
compensation to the United States postage, and in
land when the conveyance is by American steamers and
to tine postage when by foreign steamers was s34
6o62 twenty six round trips being performed by Amer
lean steamships for the sum of 90, averaging
S7663SS per round trip and twentysix and half trips
by foreign steamships, at SIPS S. averaging 47So
The amount Of letter hostages upon mails exchanged
during the year with Great Britain s77O,OSG; with
Prussia, $2S9 642 6s France S218 1905 Bremen e3S
36837; and Hamburg, So, o5 being decrease on
British mails of $50 6S4 so; Prussian mails of $S7
100 and an increase French mails of g. on
S67Oi2, compared with the preceding year. Net de-
creased letter hostages European mails $50 sos As
$685. 622 49, to Prussia sl67 ss4 49, to France slO6
05oGl to Bremen rem 8O to Hamburg, sl5584 S.
Total sent S673,SOS5. On mails received from Great
Britain s404 AGA IL from Prussia 500 IS: from
France Sll272O0l from Bremen, 500 13S 81 and from
Hamburg, $6997 S7-Tota received s665 ,O79 O4 Total
hostages collected in the United States $500 500 49, in
Great Britain, Prussia, France Bremen and Hamburg
S52S 5S9l6. Excess Of postage collected in the United
States, 1921 ,271.57.
On the subject of retrenchment the report has much to
say The department has saved the past year 81
chiefly in the curtailment Of transportation dscontnn
ance OF routes and in the California service The heayi.
est reduction has been Missouri where there had
an annual loss of $3.50 24 and the next in Texas where
the loss had been S622 In Louisiana the annual loss
has reached S5S13l5 The report again urges the abo
ton OF the ranking privilege well Of Pacific
overland service 1t opposes increase the rates
| postage
EVrTvFsTENrT IN NrpD =
| SlaUe.-On the 10th instant, a man named Durand
| from Alabama, arrived at Decato city, Nebraska
! In pursuit of fugitive slave named Bill, whom he
arrested with the assistance of the U. S. Marshal
The Marshal brought the negro to the Bates
| House, and was strenuously urged bv Durand to
! proceed directly to Omaha. To this the Marshal
would not assent nor would the citizens allow the
negro to go one step further until an examination
into the matter was had. The negro obtained the
| services of Judge Lockwood. Some others were
running here and there, drumming up the ssfriends
OF liberty" and abjuring them, by all they held
sacred, 10 resist any attempt to remove the negro
even to the bitter end. But the citizens PROMPTLY
! irowned down all demonstrations of mob violence
| quiet apparently was restored to the place wher
| an armed mob, from Sergeants Bluffs, entered the
town and surrounded the hotel. This was about
eight O'Clock in the evening, and the first intima
ton our citizens had Of their presence was a formal
| demand Tor the negro. After consulting together
| Tor few moments they announced themselves will
| ing to abide the result of an examination and tC
insisted that
| trial should take place Immediately Durand felt
| confident OF establishing his claim to the negro
and believing they would offer no serious obstruc
ton to fair investigation consented to the ar
rHngcment. when all things were eeady the Mar
shall, IN whose charge the negro remained, started
with Bill for the Commissioners office He haC
hardly reached the open air when he was seized by
number OF stalwart fellows, and the negro tori
| from ms grasp by force. The latter then started
for the river, through the darkness. on a keer
run.
ALMOST AN ARRAY IN WAsHINGroN.-Some ex
element, says the Washington Star, was created
! on Saturday in and about the House Reporters
Gallery IN consequence of the appearance there O.
| Mr.. Cobb, OF Alabama, making rather particular
! inquiries OF the correspondent of the New York
IlmeS. mat correspondent not being in his seat
| Mr.. COBB waited for his appearance some time
until 1t was ascertained that the latter was con
| lined to his room by indispositiOn. Mr. Cobb sale
ne was sorry to hear of his Illness as he should have
wished to have found him in perfect health and If
| the exercise of all his powers. Mr. c. then With
| drew. From this remark, and from the fact tina
Mr. Cobb was armed with a cane it is supposed
that his purpose was hostile one, in CONSEQUENCE
ut Is understood) of Objectionable personal notic
OF himself having appeared in the Washington cor
| respondence of the New York Times
The correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledge
| says:
| learn that Governor Wise has laid before tn
Joint Legislature over 500 letters and documents
sent him upon the subject of the Harper's Fer
INVASION Part ofJohn Browns correspondence
also in Richmond, and more of it in Charlestown
Va This correspondence was widespread betwee
Kansas and New England, and though names an
dates, and places of writing are obliterated iron
some OF the letters it nevertheless duplicates per
sons am told, now little suspected by the country
The COMMITTEE In the Senate will bring these fact
to light, but in all cases proof will be difficult
The application of Mr.. Bourcicault for an in
junction against the proprietors of the White
Garden, n. Y, restraining them from performing
the octoroon, was thrown out of Court on SatuI
day, the defendants proving that they had paid 70
the play. In the examination of the case it trans
pired that Mr.. Bourcicault, so far from fearing t
incur odlum for his course in writing and perform
ing play illustrative of Southern life had actua
ly endeavored to have the newspapers influenced t
denounce 1t as an Abolition performance, in orde
that the public curiosity might be excited
Moritz Wagner, the South American traveller
is now Frustrated with brain fever, in the hous
GGttingen.