The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-21

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terpret The contents OF any message or any part
thereof and any person who shall mjure or destroy
any cable other property OF the company. inter-
lere with the working, repair or use oil any cable
yctlon thereof be subjected to line not eXceedr,
SIS 900 or 10 Imprisonment not exceeding three Years.
ana the party injured thereby shall have r ght OF
1t SHAH be the duty OF the Attorney Genera, 10
prosecute all persons offending agalAst the pro-
visions o. this act, in any DISTRICT Court OF the
United States
The Seizure Of the american Schooner
Grnnoda.
Tho President has sent to Congress reply To the
House resolution for all the information which may
be IN the possession OF the Department OF STATE re-
latve to the alleged SEIZURE OF the schooner Granada
OF Provtnceown, Mass, regularly licensed vessel
by the British cutter Ida while lyiug peaceably nj
anchor IN the Rarbor at Port Hood, Nova Scotia
under the pretext that said schooner had on beard
too much provisions for Two months nshing voy-
age The Secretary or State encoses numerous
letters and atidavis, one OF the former saying tnat
the seizure looks like a wanton and unproyoked
ourage.
General Schenck Preparing to Resign His
Scar in Congress.
General Schenck met with the Committee on
ways and Means, OF which ne Is chairman, Tor the
last time to-day. lie informed the committee that
he docs not expect to be Congress after the holI-
days. The programme now is 10 send his name TO
the Senate TO morrow, have him confirmed at once,
m order that he may resign his seat the House
Thursday. Mr.. Hooper, OF Massachusetts viii &C.
as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee Tor
the balance OF the session.
National Asyiums for Disabled ssoldiers-Re-
port Of she Honrd of Managers.
The Board OF Managers OF the National Asylum
for Disabled Soldiers resumed their session to-day
ut the Office OF the Surgeon General. Mr.. Gunckel,
as Secretary OF the Board made his annual
report from which the following facts are
taken:--The whole number OF disabled sol
diers supported du ing the year were T. 1874,
being an increase Of 400 over last year.
OF the whole, 2l0l were supported at the Central
Asylum, Dayton OHIO; TO at the Eastern Branch,
Augusta. Me-; 7ss at the Western Branch, Milwau-
kee, Wis; 45l at Philadelphia and 125 by outdoor
relief. or the whole, lost both arms and 5 both
legs, 800 each one arm and 3ss eacn one leg, and
l,24s disabled 10y other wounds; 1I3 were blind and
As insane, and 1,667 were treated in hospi-
tal- mostly for consumption, rheumatism
diarrhGa. &c. or the whole, LOGS were married,
1858 unmarried; 1855 native born and 2.163 OF
foreign birth: 1888 received pensions, of which
many supported their families at home. All labor
and service at the Asylum is done by IN
mates Last year 663 were paid, in sums
per month, the sum of $4,000 Workshops are es.
tahlished ut each asylum and last year realized
$4,000, While the farms and gardens realized
500 900 more. Each asylum has a library and read
ing room, and there were taken out and read last
year ri, SOS volumes. They receive, besides, some
sixty daily newspapers, over 200 weeklies and 100
periodicals. They have also schools at each asylum,
at which many disabled soldiers are prepared
as school teachers, bookkeepers, clerks and tele-
graph operators, TO living for themselves.
About four hundred attended school last year.
Amusement halls, with ten-pin alleys, billiards.
bagatee, &C. and concert halls, where musical and
dramatic entertainments frequently given, and
give ample amusement to the inmates There are
also chapes, with regular religious exercises at
each asylum, and Christian associations, B ble
classes, Sunday schools and temperance societies,
&c. These influences have worked q marked change
in the conduct and morality or the men, that dis
cpiine has become easy and rules almost unneces-
sary.
The report gives the daily bill OF fare for each
asylum, with the diet list OF each hospital showing
that the inmates afforded all the subsiantials and
most of the delicacIes OF the markets. yet the ave.
rage ration per day during the year has been only
twenty-five and one. third cents per day. white the
average total cost OF Maintaining each man, nclud-
ing transportation, clothing, medicines, food, light
fuel, salaries, and all expenses or every kind, lis
only one hundred and eighty -four dollars per annum
less, II is believed, than at any similar institution in
the United States.
The report gives the States these soldiers come
from as follows:--New York, 1877; Pennsylvania,
$780, New Jersey, &C., Onio 555; Indiana 296, and pro-
portionate numbers from all the other States. Dur
ing the year there were 142 deaths-more than one
half from consumption; and SOL, who had recovered
health or learned trades or been prepared in schools
to earn their own living, were honorably dis
charged.
After the transaction Of the usual business the
Board adjourned, to hold its next meeting at the
Southern branch, near Hampton, Virginia. in March
next.
Government Accounts With the Pacific Rail-
roads.
The Secretary of the Treasury has replied to
House resolution, recently adopted, calling for In
formation relative to the financial account between
the government and the Pacific Railroads. He en-.
closes letters from the Union Pacific Railroad
directors, the Comptroller OF the Treasury and
others and also the opinion OF Attorney General
Akerman. After giving the points OF the latter.
he says that the department accepts the opinion as
correct Interpretation Of the law In the case. He
makes no recommendations.
New Funding Bill.
The following Is the full text Of the bill reported
to-day from the Senate Committee on Finance:-
Be it enacted. &C., That the amount Of bonds
authorized by the act approved July Ia, 1870,
titled an act to authorize the refunding OF the
national debt TO be issued, bearing five per cent
interest per annum, be and the same is increased
five hundred million dollars and the interest OF any
portion or the bonds issued under said act or this
act may be made payable quarter yearly
Duties Merchandise In Bond.
Section twenty OF the Tariff act Of July H. 1870
provides that
On oranges, lemons, &c, there shall be allowance
for decay on the voyage unless the loss shall exceed
twenty-f per cent OF The quantity, anu then the
allowance shall be only for the damage over twenty
five per cent
The same section or the law also provides that 80
much OF section ffty-nine Of the act OF March 2,
1882 as authorizes certain allowances for leakage
and breakage on imported wines and liquors. is
thereby rcnealed. and only acfnal hreakape and