New Orleans Republican., 1873-04-09
WHOLE NUMBER lS41.

represented the Postotice Department. and
Mr.. Isaac Hlncklev, of the Philadelphia
Wilmington and Baltimore railroad, ap-
peared on behalf of the railroads
tie first addressed the committee and
stated the question snder which Law the
trouble Tor the committees consideration
He said it was the efforts of the United
States to force railroad companies TO per
form very onerous duty without adeouate
remuneration. He sketched the railway
postal service from 1899, when mails were
first carried by railway, and stated that
$500 per Car per mile were allowed until
1915, when the service was rearranged and
a uniform rate, fifty per cent additional,
was allowed.
In 1854 postal cars were first introduced
and an arrangement was entered into that
the railroad companies would receive ad-
ditional remuneration equal to the improve
ment. This arrangement was verbal
one, and was never acted up to by the Post
office Department, the contract of lS45
remaining in force and practice up to the
present. ln 1872 Congress passed law al
lowing fifty per cent additional to the rates
of 1915, and giving the distribution OF
additional appropriation to the Post
master General, who has refused to dis
tribute the amount. He then referred
to the increase of cost to railways to carry
the mails on account of the number of post
office attaches carried in each mail train,
and contracts with express companies to
carry their mail at forty cents per
ton. Their large expenses of postal
coaches, Mr.. HInckley In continuation
claimed, that the company had not been
remunerated in any manner for, having
placed postal ears on the road, which
had involved great expensc; another
abuse of which he complained WIS that the
companies were forced to carry merchandise
as postal matter. Seeds and plants were
frequently sent through the mails The re-
given the companies was
utterly inadequate. There was unfair dis
in the rates paid the different
and in some instances the com
panies running postal cars received less re
than others who transported
the mails in baggage cars.
The act of 1873 was utterly unjust to the
as it diminished compensation
per foot of car paid by the department and
enabled the Postmaster General to increase
the work while lowering the pay.
To Senator Casserlv-Mr. Hinckley
stated that he saw no objection to the gov
ernment owning the postal cars, provided
their construction should be such as to
warrant running them before the passeD-
gers.
Mr. j. 5. Kneass, assistant president of
the Pennsylvania railroad, next addressed
the committee. taking substantially the
same ground as the previous speaker. Mr..
II. d. Bishop, president of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad also
addressed the committee on behalf of his
road.
Senior Lamorana, of the Cuban Congress,
dispatched here for aid, stated in an
address last evening that the South Ameri-
can republics were now united in the de-
to assist Cuba, and by this in
dependence was assured, even without the
aid of the United States.
Three sailors who deserted from the
American bark Urion at antiagO de Cuba,
were picked up by a Spanish steamer, and
brought back to Santiago and delivered to
the Spanish authorities for trial, ON suspi-
cion that they were endeavoring to join the
Consul Young demanded
the right to be present at their examna-
ton by the court martial, claiming they
were American seamen. The Spanish Off
cial denied the right of Consul Young to be
present, whereupOn the consul protested
against the proceedings.
The Captain General sent telegram say
ing the consul had no >right to be present.
General Torbert, consul general at Ha-
vana, has instructed Consul Young not to
withdraw his protest, and to insist upon
being present at the trial of the seamen.
Details of the sinking of the steamer
Nupha in the Hudson river show that thirty
passengers and the crew had a narrow es-
cape from drowning when the steamer was
cut through by ice and began to fill.
The captain reused all the passengers
and gave them life preservers. They
all rushed on deck boat was low
cred with the women and children, but by
some accident was capsized before reach
ing the water, throwing the women into
the water, but they were fortunately res
cued by the crew in another boat. Finally
all were put in boats and made toward the
Shore but met huge field of ice on which
they walked till within ten feet of the shore
when the ice parted. A seamen had brought
a plank which was placed across this chasm
over which they were all safely taken.
They lost all their clothing, several of the
ladies being in their night clothes.
The men employed at the Manhat
tan gas works have not quit the works
or manifest a disposition to strike.
No disturbance occurred at the works
of the Metropolitan and Harlem com
panes aud strike is not apprehended.
The rumor that connections are making
with mains of the New York company for
the purpose of supplying gas is denied by
the officers of other corporations, who say
that it would probably cause general
strike. The vice president of the New York
predicts its ultimate success.
He says that abundant wOrkmen can
be obtained, and that more than 200
are now employed. Though in the after
noon the supply was cut OFF, the gas is
burning about as usual tonight and there
is little inconvenience anywhere. A com
mittee of the Gasmakers' union goes to,
Albany to ask the appointment of a com
mission by the Legislature to assess the
value OF the property of the companies,
with a view to their purchase by the city
and the enforcement of the eight hour law
in the works. The strikers deny having
any disOrderlY conduct and
say they expect help from Union organiza-
tions in other cities, and appear determined
TO stick expecting the co operation of other
gasmen. The company is equally deter.
mined, and say they will be able to give
full supply in a few days.
Skies of 1881, l20A fve-twenties of 1862,
! 3s; of 1864. ll71A; of 1865, ll94; new
L II; of 1867, ISL; Of 1868, ll7b; ten
torties ll2H.
Tennessee sixes ~, new 19h; Virginia
skies ~, new 4S. consolidated 50; deferred
1914: Louisiana SKIES As, new 40, levee skies
80, eights so; Alabama eights 80, fives SIS;
Georgia sixea 70. seVens "a; North Caro-.
linas 80. new II. special tax l3e; South
Carolinas 80, new Is. April and October d.
Money loaned as high as g, but at the
close tell TO ] coin. Exchange dull and
lower; 07l9. Gold opened at 1872 fell to
ll84. rallied to 1883. fell to ll8, and closed
at 1875 01l8A.
Money closed at gold. Sterling 767A.
Gold 1875 q ll8A. Governments irregular,
but closed firm at fraction decline. Ten
1essees Il lower; other Sta tes steady.
Arrived-Halsatia, Manhattan, M~tropo-
lis, Salvador, Europa, Glasgow and Hunts.
vile. Arrived out-Celtic and City Of
Paris.