New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-28
WASHINGTON.

TIoNs TO BB CONTINUEDS-THE PosTMAs-
TER-GENERAL's REPoRT-INCREAsED REV
ENUE RECElPTS-JUD6E DENT STILL CON-
FIDENT OF ELECTION.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRTBUHBl
WASHINGTON Wednesday, Oct. "a, 1892
There is rumor tonight, that the resignation OF Gen.
Butterfeld Assistant Treasurer NewYork will not
accepted for the present but he will be retained
pending investigations, which, IL said are still insisted
upon by the Government. 1t is not Improbable, how
ever that the delay in accepting his resignation Is Occa
stoned by the abseLce OF the President. 90
The reports OF the Bureau officers Of the Post Office De-
partment are nearly completed. and the Postmaster
Generals report is also well under way The financial
condition of the Department ia very favorable and the
reforms have been very economical and extensive
scale. small deficiency only Will be shown oy Mr..
Cresswel In his report and there would not have been
any had the part Of the fiscal year been eeono
ically managed as the latter Since tho retirement OF
Mr. Randall the reforms been steadily carried ont
and the expenses cut down the lowest figure On June
80 1862 the end OF the fiscal year. there were 5000 con-
tractors for carrying the mails and there we're 0s1 mall
routes operation The aggregate length OF the routes
Is 1913 miles, and the aggregate annual transportation
400 miles. The aggregate annual cost OF transport
ing the mails during the time stated was so4O0ol out
including compensation Of railway and post clerks
route agents, local agents, mail messengers &c when
was 81 275227 the aggregate annual cost was sloSl72S
During the year. 68O3 miles added TO the mail ser
vice. There was an OF transportation FROM 1883
TO 1869 OF o499O7s miles, which cost s40465 to which
should be added the increased cost for railway postal
clerks and other agents, sGO59 making an aggregate
cost These figures do not include services OF
special officers this service is self sustaining. Mr. Cress
well will take the ground that the PostOmce Depart
ment ought 90 be made selfsuppOrtinR and that Win
necessary legislation, which he will recommend, he DC
eves receipts will be sufficient to carry on the De-
parment He will, therefore, important feature
nd fha ai,ol 0ff ha
privilege, or II that cannot be effected. then a
large abatement Of its privileges. He will show how
much gratutous and bulky matter is transported free OF
charge the service which this transportation
entails and many facts and statistics in support of
ommendauon Under the present laws the POst-Ottce
Department has transport without remuneration the
mails all the departments here which Is but little less
onerous than the mails of Congress- Mr.. Cresswe in
order TO make HIS department sefsusiainDg as
possible will recommend that each department. pay It's
postage out OF its own resources The postmaster
General will also ask certain reforms In the matter OF adj
yertsng, andw request that amendments be inserted
to improper of the laws in favor OF
newspapers One in point is cited In the
report of one of the bureaus, as follows {:
In the quarter ending March 81, 1869. the
expense Of advertising exhibits large increase. The
Chronicle Star and Republican newspapers presented
accounts for advertising mail lettings In various States,
which they had copied in their papers-clamihg their
right do under acts OF Congress, and amounting to
q s6sl39 The submitted to the AttorneyGen-
era end under his opinion, the claims were paid The
Postmaster General will also recommend the abolition
Of the etterbox delivery system preferrng that ell mall
matter be delivered by carriers through the general
delivery. He is also in favor Of reducing the rate
charged registered ettershe present rate being so
high that few persons have made OF the privilege
will probably recommend that the rate on registered
letters be reduced 20 six cents
ba Ipfa
date amount to sO3OsO0 1t is estimated that the total
for this month will reach tl2O00o0o which is nearly
t2OoOOO0 than the corresponding month last year.
There as yet no indication Of positive character that
Secretary Boutwell, will continue the purchase Of bonds
and OF gold next month In the same proportion as
during present month, but it is believed he will d.
the sales and purchases to continue without change
until the meeting Of Congress.
letter from Judge Dent speaks in the most encour'
aging OF the progress Of the canvass IN Miss
sipp and Of the prospects OF his election as Governor
He says that three Radical papers In the State have
taken down the OF Alcorn, and will hereafter sup
port him. The fact that the Judge voted against q
clause favor OF Slavery the Constitutional Conven-
ton California. his friends say will have the effect OF
bringing TO his support large colored vote.
The Secretary OF the Navy has begun series OF
changes among the employees gOf the several naVyyads
OF the country which will meet the approval OF Repub-
licans generally.
Great interest felt here in regard to the coming cleo
ton IN NewYork. The VicePresident OF the New-York
Republican Association. Mr. Lake, has already disposed
OF about tickets NewYork voters resident here so
OF them being Government printers.
At n meeting OF the New-Jersey Republican Assoeia-
ton last night excitement was occasioned when
upon calling the roll OF clerks In the Departments
credited to that State IL ascertaned that large
number borne upon the Blue Book as from Jersey had
never been resdents the State and OF them had
never even been In It. This viewed fraud upon
the State and the Executive Committee was accordingly
directed TO take steps TO rectify the matter large
number the clerks thus credited from States whose
quotas were ed and who could not therefore have OBJ
taned positions unless credited to some other State
THE GUBERNATORIAL CONTEST IN MIssIssIPPI-
POSITION OF THE Observation-Disclosures
BINARY INCREASE OF REVENUE IN NlR-
GINIA-sEIZURES BY REVENUE OFFICERS
AN EARTHQUAKE WAVE ON THE PACIFIC
IGRSRRAL PRESS DTsPATCHI
Senator Thayer of Nebraska had conversation with
President Grant yesterday the subject OF the Misss
sipp election He called the Presidents attention 10
published telegram TO the eers tnas TuuSs @
q candidate for Governor OF that state The Presl-
closed 70 Judge Dent asking II had been correctly
reported To this inquiry he had Dot as yet reeved
reply The President further stated that IN August Last
he advised Judge Dent not " connect himself with
the Conservative movement, against the party now
OF Inc Adminstration and Government while he WAS
good personal relations with Judge DENT he never
thcless felt bound by public duty To Oppose his election
These views he unquaedly aud empbatlcaly repeated
Senator Thayer He believed from what he had heard
that Alcoru would be elected. ConversinR on tho
subject XVIII Amendment TO the Constitution or
the United States be expressed the hope that the Ne
braska Legislature would be cOnvoked this cnlnhR VIII
ter order ratify the Amendment The sessions OF
the Nebraska Legislature biennial aud the next reg
ular session will not take place until January 1871,
Supervisor Presbury Of Virginia reports the Internal
Revenue Office that tho collection Of tax GU tobacco IN
that State for the months ending Sept 30. was
$294S53 49, against e22I 81 for the same period OF
last year-tho Increase this year being t96sIJ9 u.s. He
estimates that the increase OF revenue from tobacco ia
Virginia. for the commencing March 1862 and cad
ing March, 1870 will be least OOOO0O greater than FOR
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