The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1872-12-07

IL eAcndnBeu Win European countries ,
ld ceeded $40 tons. The cost of A. ~
lie ted States Trans-Atlantic mail &C.
e. ship service was $50, ,030, 0,17O. TIC e
of lowing are the only steamship line -
is receiving subsidies for mail se,-v;t., : /.
of der special acts of Congress: The D.
re fic Mail Steamship Company rece
p $4,000 per annum for CARRYING
g monthly mail between sSSaIa- 7 Fyaaaeiis
lie Japan and China, which VIII be incl-e,
2 ed to one million per annum for a sen
y monthly mail ON and after October
T 1873. The United States and R,az
q Mail Steamship Company receive $50
: 600 per annum for carrying ssr1isonthl
b. mail between New York and Rio de Jna
eirq snd Brazil The 8silt2rnIs 0rege
: ceive S75, 600 per annum for carrying
4 monthly mail between San Francisc
: and Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. NAL
ing the total amount of mail steaushi
subsidies, at present, S725, 900 per an
mum. Our postal communications Wit
all parts of the civilized world hav
been placed upon a most advantageou
footing by the improved postal conven
tlons and arrangements recently conclu
ded with the leading commercial conn
tries of Europe and America, and the
gratifying statement is made that, Will
the conclusion of a satisfactory eonven
ton with Erance-the details of which
have been definitely agreeded to by the
head of the French Postal Department
subject to the approval of the Minister
of France-little remains to be accom-
! plished by treaty for some time to come,
IN respect to the reduction of the rate
on improved facilities of postal inter
course. Your favorable consideration is
respectfully invited to the recommenda-
tlons made by the Pcstmaster-G General
for an increase of the service: For a
monthly to semi-monthly trips on the
mail steamship route to Brazil; for a
subsidy inside of the establishment of
an American line of mail steamers be-
tween San Francisco, New Zealand and
Australia: for the establishment of post
office saving banks, and for the increase
of the salaries of the heads of Bureaus.
have heretofore recommended the abo-
litiOn of the franking privilege, and see
no reason now for changing my views on
that subject.
POSTAL TELEGRAPH
Ii not having been favorably regarded
by Congress, however, / now suggest a
modification of the privilege, to correct
its glaring and costly abuses. / would
recommend, also, the appointment of
committee or Commissioners to take in
to consideration the best method equita-
bic to private corporations, who have
invested their time and capital in the
establishment of telegraph lines, of ac-
quiring the title to all telegraph lines
now in operation, and of connecting this
service with the postal service of the
nation. 1t is not probable that this sub
iect could receive the proper considera-
tion during the limits of a short session
of Congress, but it may be initiated, so
that further action may be fair TO the
Government and to private parties con-
cerned. There are but three lires OF
oesss sss sssssssisip ssssiisi Company, between san
s,a. Egansls6i2 6hlg lodfnIy service after
October /, 1873; the United States and
Brazil line. monthly, and the California,
New Zealand and Australia line, month
Iy, PLAYING between the United States
and foreign ports, and owned and opera
ted under our flag. l earnestly recon-
mend that such liberal contracts for car
rying mails be authorized with the lines
IS Will insure their continuance. If the
of extending the aid of the
to lines of steamers which
hitherto have not received it, should be
leemed worthy of the consideration of
Congress, political and commercial OBJ
ects make it advisable to bestow such
nd ON a line under our flag between
Panama and the western South America
ports. BY this means much of the trade
low diverted to other countries might
De brought to us, to the mutual advan-
age of this country and those lying in
hat quarter of the continent of America.
The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury will show am alarming falling
L
IL twelve wears. and even for the past
year. / do not believe that the public
lreasure can be better expended III the
interest of the whole people than in try
ng to recover this trade An expendi-
.ure of $1,000, 600 per annum for the
lext five years, if it would restore to us
our proportion of the carrying trade of
he world, would be profitably expen-
led. The price of labor in Europe has
20 much enhanced within the last few
years that the cost of building and oper
tting ocean steamers in the United
States is now SO much greater than IN
Europe, that / believe the time has ar
.ived for Congress to take this subject
nto serious consideration.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
A detailed statement of the disburse-
nents through the Department of JUS
ice will be furnished by the report of /
he Attorney-General, and though they \
nave been somewhat increased on ac-
,ount of the recent acts of Congress to 1
enforce the rights of citizens of the Uni /
ed States to vote in the several States I
If the Union, and to enforce the pro- /
visions of the Fourteenth Amendment to /
" Constitution of the United States, /
yet they are justified by the necessity |
md salutary effect of these ennct-
nents. Reckless and lawless men, |
[ regret to say, have associated them /
selves together to deprive other citizens /
,fathe right guaranteed to them by the I
of the United States, and /
10 this end have committed deeds OF |
but the prevention and punish (
ment of many of the persons have tendsdt de y
greatly to si.s the P5es5Pie in ali parts Of the
.or,I,fry favor the full enjoyment ~
,lasses of persons OF these
which they are entitled uhaer IN -
,4;+,,+;on and the laws, and l iilNohe
IL and Influence of all good cltlzens
.n0 .n,.a,,a,,t organizations whose oblects
o,o W. fhv unlawful means, to interfere WIN
a. aI.e1,,a tights look with confidence -
~, +;,,e not far distant when the opNi-
o1,s advantapes of good order ana peaoe
III III ;,,d,ce an abandonment OF aii com
W. t;ons prohibited by the acts re1erre'' ~
- and when it will be unnecessary "
70, & anu On "rae prosecutions or infiict punish
nts at H 70 protect citizens from the law
men'9 1aea 5o;nes II of such combination. Ap- l.
l'1;eat;ons lS5e have been made to me 10 par
Pllo'''iu 3n', ,,arsons convicted OF Vl9iat t
tom t;nn of said acts, upon the ground 1n5 Una, a.
non =, in such cases would tehu ~
ttrreonnnilize the public mind, ane osed - 81
tIali .En galne of that policy am dlspose1i
as a,sg FAR as nv sense of Justice VIII p"rahle p,lI
aS i"t 20 oive to these persons iavolsaol,,
me !; deration but any action .nei srv
eorsI g not To he construed as indicating ,cs ans
change in my determination n 70 erG1g na,,;ra-
U;tb yieor such, so long as tlle consi ,.ai,aed
";na %isn and combinations therein ha11eu II 4.
enes d;strb r the peace Of the country yt.es !. !
ns1sh s,cb 70 he regretted, and is regre',es .'a
u. ~, No one more than myself, that ~, ~
Sss;tv ~ "a has ever existed to executs 80 slr'
ESQ., s.ssorce,nent me, act. No one can desil
enloaIJ Iaua than that the necessity OF Apply az
mo mo- + NAV never again be demanaeu ,s.,o,-,
my H,ba ~ Sc Secretary Of the Interior repor.
; sat;sfactory improvement anu p,o5adI. .T55rde
sion in each of the several Bureaus tne, .,
the control of the Interior De,a pnd;4;o, tat;s,
] The The work in some of them 1oI son = |.