The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-03

sition state. 1t is asserted in Enplan
that the moment au 81 ton gun is fairl
ah1at, In ship built to carry it, an,
nse 1t, the fate of sea going armor clad
vessels OF the present type is sealed.
HE Union Pacific threatens a wa
against the express companies, propos
ing to run the cars and do the bushes.
itself. If some of the profits on e1pres
sage we've diverted to modify the
charges on freight and passengers, the
public would bid this new movement
God-speed.
CHIcAGo's new directory is out at
last. A comparison of names with ST.
Louis and Cincinnati shows CHICAGO
40 600 in the majority. st. Louis has
loo, 7ol names. Cincinnati log, 977, and
Chicsgo LAG. 1873 The latter city had
the advantage, however, being the last
to show up.
LONDON advices indicate that the
financial breeze is over, and attribute
the late crisis to over speculation, par
tlcularly IN teas, silks and opium, and
an excess OF discounted paper 1t may
be remarked that in this country also
the tea trade threatens to he overdone.
as it now comes round the world to ms
both ways, from the east as of old, and
from the west via Ssn Francisco.
POSTMASTER GENERAL JEWELL ex-
plains that the increase in the tate to be
charged for registered letters, from
e'ght to ten cents, has been made neces-
saiy by the fact that this branch of the
service has not been paying expenses.
Inc law leaves the rate optional with
the postmaster general, and Creswell re-
-duced it from fifteen to eight cents.
There were 4 SEQ, GOO letters registered
last year.
SPEAKING of the crops in Louisiana.
the New Orleans Picayune saws reliable
accounts from every quarter concur in
representing the crops of this year as
exceptionally fine. A better mutual
feeling prevails as between EMPLOYER
and employe, and there has been be-
nefcent concurrence of circumstances to
reward the courageous energy with
which, despite the many rev.rses and
discoaragements of the past, the plant |
ers have labored to secure the present |
and propitiate the future.
THE United States steamer Plymouth.
which is to go to the mouth of the Rio
drande to assist in preventing Mexican
raids, carries twelve guns but as the
nver is not navigable on account of
sand and shoals, the services of the vessel
can probably not extend beyond the
protection of Brownsville, the capital
OF Cameron county, which lis only
thirty five miles from the Gulf. Boats
may ascend, however, to a considerable
distance, provided they can be of any
use.
The new system of prepayment of
postage on newspapers by stamps
seems to promise satisfactory results
in the way of revenue. The weight of
this class of matter from the New York
postoffice during the first quarter of the
present year aggregated 3,745, 357
pounds. The postage collected amount
ed to So, 1853. At this rate New York
city alone will pay during the year
much more than il has ever paid be-
before, or abont one quarter of the en-
tire receipts throughout the United
States from this source,
The strike that has just come to an
end in the Pennsylvania coal regions is
estimated to have caused loss of at
least ten millions of dollars to the op-
orators and workmen. Itwss all about
rednction of ten per cent. in the pay of
the workmen. As they have resumed
work at the rates proposed by the op-
orators, it will be seen that they have
gained nothing, but have lest their
wages for three or four morths. They
are, no DOUBT, glad to get work now,
even at the reduced rates, for many of
them we're reduced to the verge of star
walton by their prolonged idleness.
The homliest women in the world are
said to live in the valley of Spit, twelve
thousand feet above the sea, in the
Himalaya mountains. Their faces are
horribly repuisive, and they wear high !
leather boots clear up to their bustles,
which they fill with -four to keep their
extremities warm. Yet, nevertheless,
travellers say that the men of Spit are
just as apt to get "looney and lose
their sleep over these ridiculous crea-
tures as are the men of more favored
regions over their own beauties. There
is Just as much signing in Spiti as
there is anywhere else.
The project Of the st. Petersburg
conference on the international laws
of war seems % be kept in allegiance.
As yet only Austria, Germany, France,
Italy ard sweden, hs-ze sienified their
readiness to be parties &c it. Four of
these powers have given in SIMPLY their
adhesion, while Germany has, a. the
same time, sent in the Amendments
which she means to make to the prelim-
mary stipulatiens of the protocols
signed last year in Brussels. England,
as it is well known, has decided to take
no part in it, while none of the smaller
powers have as yet returned any answer
either way.
A PHYSICIAN in London sends to the
Lancet q letter which he received from
firm of undertaken inclosing check
for f2 14s., being five per cent commits
sion on the amount received by the
firm for two funerals furnished on the
physicians Recommendation. 1t had
not occurred to the physician that he