, 1876-03-31
LATEST NEWS
By Telegraph and Mall
Gold. in New York on the 29tt

The new postage bill provides that
the rate for third-class mail matter
shall be one cent per ounce for any
distance not exceeeing 1000 miles,
and two cents per ounce for any dis
tance over that. The amended bill
also provides that transient news
papers and magazines shall pay post
age for any distance at the rate of
one cent for every three ounces or
fractional part.
Treasurer New has withheld for
the present his resignation at the re-
quest of the President and Bristow.
The famous stallion Hambletonian
died at Chester on the 9th, aged 2S
years. He was the sire of the most
valuable trotting stock in the country
Thomas w. Piper, who murdered
little Mabel Young in a church bel
fry at Boston, last May, has been
sentenced to be hung.
A bill has been introduced in the
Senate to give national charter to
build railroad from the Black Hills
to Portland, Oregon, to be complet-
ed within Is years.
The steamship Great Western
went ashore on the Long Island
coast on the 2Sth inst. A total loss.
No lives lost.
Three shocks of earthquake were
felt in San Francisco on the 25th.
The Oceanica arrived at San Fran
cisco on the Goth from China and ia
pan, bringing in the steerage S46
Cinnamon and 81 Japanese.
The Chinese companies of this
coast will employ lobby influence
at Washington to oppose contem-
plated anti Chinese measures.
A Washington dispatch of the
25th says that the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company is in trouble again
with the postofice department con-
cerning the China subsidy. 1t seems
that this subsidy was payable for the
entire service by American ships,
and that by the sale of the Shanghai
line to the Japanese Government it
is no longer able to perform its con-
tract, and Postmaster General Jew
ell has stopped the further payments
of the subsidy. The matter is to be
referred to the Attorney General for
his opinion, but the impression is
bthat Jewell's position will be main
1tained.
The examination of the affairs Of
the Surveyor Generals Office in
San Francisco is still going on be-
fore the land monopoly committee.
The evidence shows great Iooseness
in the conduct of the Office.
An attempt is being made in San
Francisco to form an anti Coolie Wig
lance committee.
In the California Senate a bill was
introduced or.-tl-.-s tsi.'-A.l5esrc % pro
Ik1ue ioran appropriation Of $1,000
ito defray the expenses Of a delega-
ltion to Washington to urge a modi-
6cation of the Burlingame treaty in
reference to Chinese immigration.
The statement published that the
papers and records of the California
Independent central committee had
been turned over to the Republican
party turns out to be false.
The freedmen's monument to
President Lincoln will be dedicated
on the 14th of April next. The sub
scription for erecting this monument
was started by an old black woman
lof Marietta, Ohio, on the morning
after the assassination, by contri-
button Of FIVE dollars.
Mr.. Willard, agent of the German
bondholders of the Oregon and Cali
fornia Railroad, is now in Oregon
reorganizing the company. He says
about eleven million dollars of stock
Iis held in Germany in the Oregon
Central road. No bonds have vet
been issued, certain bankers in Ger
many and in England, whom he rep
resented having furnished the money
for the road thus far. Two wears
ago the bondbolders failed to get
more than third of the interest
due on bonds, and so made a con-
tract with Mr.. Holiday which set
forth that he was TO pay them $780,
OOO per year, payments to be made
seml-annually, in case the road did
not pay them 2 J per cent. This the
road failed to do, and so the pay
ment of the money mentioned de-
volved on Mr.. Holiday. He made
only one payment, the first due, of
s25, 900, and failed to make any af.
terward. Mr.. Willard will be assist
ed IN the work of reorganization by
the railroad engineer, who was sent
out to Oregon from Germany some
two years ago. With regard to the
steamship line there will be no
change further than adding two new
steamers this summer.
The Governor of California on the
23d inst signed the bill to punish
wife beaters by public whipping.
After an animated debate in the
! House OF Commons the royal titles
bill making Queen Victoria Empress
oil India, passed its reading. The
vote was 2o7 for the bill, 134against.
The Montana legislature before
closing passed an act granting a sinh.
sidy OF three million dollars to the
Northern Pacific Railway. Rrt az