New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-11-04
A NEW TROUBLE FOR CHICAGO
THE INSURANCE ON GRAIN DOUBLED
Comparative Cotton Statement
ST. LOUIS AND IRON SHIPS
SOUTHERN NAIL CONTRACTS


1teutenaDe Commander Pritcheet Dead
Recruits - eaa Asesaio-6upesvisipa
Inspectors A4jsaFn-A BIG Blander-
More MaFtial Law.
WASHINGTON, November 3.-Lieutenan
Commander James N. Pritchett 10 dead.
One hundred recruits have been sent Il
San Antonio, Texas.
The board of supervising inspectors have
adjourned sine die. Their proceedings have
been approved by the Secretary Of the
Treasury. They designated different life
saving apparatus, with the view to protect
steamboats, against mOnOpOJists. The in.
| spectOrs did not discriminate in favor Of
| any patent, but asserted general and spe.
ciffc requirements applicable to ell vessels
propelled in part or wholly BY steam. Thew
adopted instructions to local inspectors, and
additional rules, all having in view the
strict enforcement Of the law.
The proclamation alluded to in the report
sent hence ct noon, relative to the restors-
ton OF Marion county; South Carolina; to
her civil rights, and the placing Of Union
mulgated.
It releases Marion county, and says |:
Whereas, it has been ascertained that un-
lawful combinations and conspiracies of the
character, and to the extent, and for the
purposes described in said proclamation, in
the county of Union, South Carolina, do
exist now; therefore, etc.
1t is stated clerical blunder in writing
Marion for Union, in the former proclsms-
ton, necessitates q supplimental proclama-
ton.
The Times has the following regarding
Southern mail cont racts: The readvertise-
ment by the POstOffice Department of the
postal routes which were mot let at the an
nual letting last spring, by reason of straw
bids, had not resulted in any good, unless it
be the demonstration of the utter inefi-
cheney of the last law Of Congress to protect
the interests of the department against con-
tractors and swindlers.
OF all the most important routes in the
last advertisepent, not one has been left,
and the consequence is that the contractors
for special temporary service will continue
the service. The terms on which the con-
tracts were made, extending them to JAM
uary l or longer, if the Postmaster General
should SO direct. Some of the straw bids arc
made in the interest Of these temporary
contractors snd some by blackmaileFs, who
put in law bids with the hope of inducing
some bidder in good faith to buy them of
before the awards are made.
The contractors have been acting in &C.
cordance with able legal advice, and have
probably succeeded in evadihg the law
without exposing themselves to punish
meDt. The whole subject will come MP be-
fore Congress, where the problem will be
to prevent any person from bidding for .
contract to carry the mails unless having
the intention and ability to execute . con,
tract on receiving an award, or else to give
the Postmaster General . discretion which |
he does not now have in making the award. |
At present it is in the power of any per-
ION to hinder the department from making |
any except temporary contracts for postal |
'ervlce, and that, too, by putting in bids for |
he most trifliDg and Insignificant amounts.
bidder failing to enter INTO the contract, had |
he authority to contract with the next |
highest bidder, and go on, the whole diff |
;ulty might be avoided.