The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-26
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-The Postmaster Gen
eral instructs the postmaster at Galveston &c
make the best arrangements possible for malls
till the railroads are repaired.
of the Department of Agriculture says OF the
corn crop: Could 1t be thoroughly ripened, its
aggregate would exceed any previous crop,
and the yield per acre would be one OF the best
notwithstanding the losses by overflow OF bot
toms and saturation of heavy flat soils,
such losses proving less than the
usual damages by draughts and insects while the
rains have greatly benefited the crop on drier
in maturity from one to two weeks. The general
high condition is still maintained, the average
being one per cent higher than in August. The
State averages are: Main los, New Hampshire 100,
Vermont SO, Massachusetts 100, Connecticut 10S,
| New York 49, New Jersey Ill, Pennsylvania 108,
Delaware 100, Maryland 1O6, Virginia liz, North
Carolina 10l, South Carolina, Georgia 3d. Florida
| 49, Alabama Ill, Mississippi 116, Louisiana 85,
Texas 80, Arkansas l03, Tennessee ia, West Vir-
| glnia l07 Kentucky 103, Ohio 81, Michigan 1Ol,
| Indiana SO, Illinois 95, Wisconsin 60, Minnesota
u, Iowa 80. Missouri ILL., Kansas 100, Nebraska
50, California 50, Oregon.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-Hon. R. B. Vance, Of
North Carolina, Jas. Stevenson, OF WASHINGTON,
d. G., and A. T. Davidson, of Asheville, N. c.,
have been appointed as commissioners to APP
praise the lands recently recovered to the Chero-
kee Indians in North Caro- ina.
The new Chicago Custom-House Commission
nave submitted their report TO the Secretary OF
the Treasury. They recommend the strength
eniug and the completion Of the concrete foun-
dation, also that certain parts Of the building be
taken down.
In referring the report to the Supervising
Architect of the Treasury, the Secretary directs
him to proceed with the reconstruction at once.
He will bring the building as near as may be to
uniform level before hard freezing weather, when
he will suspend building work and adopt such
meaeures may be necessary to protect the |
building thoroughly from exposure to the weather |
during the coming winter.
Before the resumption of work in the spring, |
he supervising architect will carefully raise the
plans of the build ng, redistrbute the weights, |
and heightenng the structure as much as prac-
ticabie in accordance with the instructions and |
recommendations contained in the report, and |
also reduce and cheaper the character Of the |
stone cutting on superstructure. He will select |
for the superintendent of this building the most |
competent and trustworthy man he can obtain,
and will charge him specially with seeing that ali |
the contracts with reference to the material are
rigidly enforced, and that all material furnished
Is carefully Inspected
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-The Postmaster Gen
eral to-day directed the postmaster at DenisoD,
Texas, to withhold and forward to the senders all
money orders and registered letters addressed to
he Texas Gift Concert Association lottery con-
fern. The order is similar to the one issued in
he case Of the lottery agent, L. d. Sine, Of Gin
,nnati.