, 1876-02-25
Editorial Notes.

A TELEGRAM from Cheyenne of
recent date, says that incoming trains
bring scores Of gold seekers daily,
and a party arriving at that place
from Custar, reports having counted
1Sj wagons en- route for the Black
Hills. Two hundred more were also
Quitting at Cheyenne.
MAINE is the first in the field with
her delegates to the National Repub-
lican Convention, who are instructed
for Blaine. Indiana comes next.
having held her convention on the
22d, with instructions for Morton.
The latter State elects her delegates
through the convention which nomi-
mates her State officers, while the
former chooses hers by Legislative
caucus.
A POSTAL convention has been con
cluded between the United States
and Queensland, Australia. The
mails are 20 be transported in a direct
line of colonial packets, plying be-
tween San Francisco and Australian
colonies. 1t is now in operation.
Full letter postage either way is
twelve cents. Newspapers to and
from Queensland, two cents each.
Other printed matter and samples of
merchandise, to Queensland, -four
cents for four inches; from Queens
land, four cents for two ounces.
Registered letters are charged a fee
of ten cents infhis country, and four
pence in Queensland, in addition to
the ordinary postage.
A LINE of steamers is to be started
by a society called the y" Society of
Christopher Columbus" between
Genoa and Philadelphia to carry
goods of intending Italian exhibitors
to the Centennial, and for the con-
venieHce of passengers from the
Mediterranean. A William Penn"
line of steamers is to be dispatched
to Philadelphia by an English COM
pany, as yell as " "Knickerbockern
by the Hollanders. The competi
ton between steamer lines is likely
to be very great for the next six
months.
A NEWSPAPER is window through
which men. look out on all that is
going on in the world witho ut a
newspaper a man is shut up in a
small room, and knows little or
nothingof what is happening outside
of himself. In our day, the newspa-
pers keep pace with history and ie-
cords it. A newspaper will keep a
sensible man in sympathy with the
worlds current history. tits an en-
folding encyclopedia, On unbound
book forever Issuing and never fin
ished.
THE Secretary Of the Southern
Historical Society, replyinglto Sec
Tfetary Belknap's letter to him says:
" The people of the South are not
only willing but anxious that the
whole of the official records should
be given to the world, and that fu-
turs historians should have the op-
portunity of judging them in the
light of those records Be assured
then of our hearty cooperation in
supplying your department with
missing Confederate documents.
We will have furnished you properly
authenticated copies of such as are
in our possession, and will assist you
in procuring others; it being under
stood of course that your Depart
ment will afford us similar facilities
in the prosecution of our work"
THE citizens of Boston will have
a big celebration on the 18th of
March next, it being the anniversary
of the evacuation of Boston by the
British. Salutes are to be fred
morning, noon and night. The for
tifications on Boston Neck" in
which were situated the gates OPEN
ed to admit the American army, are
to be designated by suitable decora-
tions, and citizens are asked to dec
crate historical points along the line
of the route by which Gen. Wash
ington entered the city and at
night, Dorchester Heights, Bunker
Hill Monument, and the Gilded
Dome are to be Illuminated.
ACCORDING to an English publica.
ton, the sea-going tonnage of all
nations foots up a total Of 62,777 YES
sels of 1859, ,396 tons; representing
-57,25S sailing vessels and 1913
steamers. OF these there are owned
by Great Britain and her colonies,
q, ,859 vessels, Including 3,152 steam
ers, of 9,133,926 tons, or nearly one
half of the mercantile tonnage afoat
on the seas. There are indications,
however, that some of the smaller
maritime nations of Continental Eu-
rope, Italy, Norway and Germany,
for instance, are making more rapid
strides in this branch Of commerce
than Great Britain, because they
carry much cheaper than British
ships as they do cheaper than Amer
lean ships. The exclusively sea-
going American tonnage is set down
by the same authority at 3,0S0,451
tons, representing 1912 sailing yes
sells and 2578 steamers. If the lake
and river tonnage were added, these
figures would be nearly double. As
it is, the sea-going tonnage Of the
United States is far in advance of
that of any nation, except Great Bri-
tain.