New-York tribune., 1877-07-25

| poII lnat no mails are passing over the
Pennsylvania Railroad except a few local
routes, and that nothing has been sent
from New-Yorl by that line during the last two
! days beyond Altoona One mail day is dispatched
from Baltimore and Washington to Cincinnati and
| ST. Louis the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad:
and no attempt is being made to forward more than
one mail day each way over any through line be-
| tween the East and the West. The following dis
patch, received this afternoon from Mail Supt X. c.
Jackson, at NewYOrk. gives an idea of the present
condition Of the Mail Traffic between the East and
/ the West:
Through Western mails rom New-Yorl including all
Of Ohio and Southwest Perns, lva"I are beng sent by
mails by wagon to The suburbs for the Pan Handle route
irreguary bctwern Ncw-York and Pittsburg. via the
West Pennsylyana Railroad but convey no other
Hocnclsvilic but the postal cars we're locked up
a. that point until this morning. when Chet
/ with mails. New-York and Dunkirk Postal CLERKS
are w9rkng mp ma for the line OF their road IN the
! York YESTERDAY morning over the New-York Central
Vet ich rfi New.YorE on N Sunday nd at $50 p n aud
s.ould have let Buffalo yes erdty noon, Is sill at Bur
fio. No trains arr passing thar point East West The
prospects good for getting m1l To Pi surg to-
night. koue Agent Price is sa TO nave been killed by
collision on ti" West PennsyyanIa Railroad yesterday
The following dispatch from General Mail Super
intendcnt T. " Vail also dated New-York at. three
/ situation:
The information have ia very indefinite indeed.
Trans on all roads are very irregular and 0hy local
rioters Buffalo offered to mails through to Erie,
guaranteeing protection AMI sly that the dispatches
| rom incunlti, indianapolis and Columbus show
that the rioters will not INT 'rfcre with mail trains /
have asked both Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr.. rOtt If they
Will not run 3 with special cars on regular trans as lir
they control the roads and with special trains through
tr rOtuus districts II they refuse TINS we are absouty
blocked, the Michigan Central is reported TO have
struck, and strike hts comm need at West AInihy
] Inc Lebanon Valley road Is blOckei The DildSc Is
/ hu ned 1t Beading.
On the receipt of this dispatch, the Postmaster
/ General telegaphed immediately to Messrs. Wander
hi and Scott asking them If possible to make such
! arrangements rs are suggested by superintendent
/ Vail. The strikers at Buffalo deny that they are
responsible for the blockade of the mails at that
point A dispatch was received by the Postmaster
/ General this afternoon signed by Committee of
Rallr rlad Engineers the Buffalo Division of the
! Lake shore and Michigan Southern Railroad OF
wh,c the following is IA copy:
None of the mails have uterfered with stopped
here bv parties known a. str kers We VIII lulh'h
all engineers and tremen 10 pass all the mails regularly
a onr own expense II the kiiio"" COMPANIES W." p'i
nit us to do So"
Selden Marvin, the Mayor of Erie, Penn, also
telegram ed this afternoon as follows to the Post
mastcI-General:
committee Of striker. request me to tee sraph you
that the stuppage Of passenger ANA mail trans mere Il
not by their consent or ocuiement; that my PTocS
against t. and are willing to aid to send forward al such
trans"
The only route by which the through mail from
/ the East 10 the West can now be dispatched with
certainty o its reaching its destinations is by way OF
| Canada. Supt. Vail telegraphed tins afternoon to
the Postma,tcr-General tnat all trains had been
stopped at Buffalo, and that he had ordered mail
for the West to Toledo by the way of suspension
Bridge, until the trouble was over. He also re-
qne,ted that Mr.. Blackman, superintendent Of
Foreign Mails, be informed, in order that
the Canadian Government might be informed.
! The attention of the Canadian Government had
/ already been called to the blockade OF the
mails on through lines East and West and IN re-
sponse to dispatch sent by order Of the Post
Master-General, W. II. Griitns, assistant Post
Mas,er-Genera of Canada telegraphed this
afternoon from Ottawa. Ontario, as follows: " |
have requested the Great Western Railway to take
charge OF the mails you sent and give them con-
veyauce.v The blockade at indianapolis is n COM
ul.te as at Pttsburg and Buffalo William
! Holloway. Post Master at Indianapolis tclegraphs
to assistant Post-Naster Gen. Turner tins afternoon
As follows:
"Tuc strikers allow the mail to 20 only on trains whore
there are route ag.n5 M LeI .'9H M me tIn ' 10 ~, & ne
cans, there was route agent on II. hundreds Ol pl
nr,sa,d viii have all trans watched hereafter, and
VIII have atdavits made, anu inc pa us VINO taAg ,
| Marshal" c r-t ,.n
The following dispatch from :. Jay French, Mail
Superintendent dated at Cincinnati this afternoon,
| also refers to the blockade at indianapolis:
"The strikers have possession OF the Un"n Depot at
nIiaapols and viii M allow passenger trains 10 raNe
Tuey u W allow Il mail 10 20 out on cacl fOiu ana
say tb.y viii let postal cars run re-uaTf ihc 'hcteo
ma (iriuuati n gut line aud the ONO ana VI ssI'-lpp
mn, only an engine and postal ar Ihc f'h Hihdl
trains are running regularly aui but Tor TIE tfdsef AZ
Pifsbrg tnroug connection for mii for rae southwest
carIt mink made Piltsblrg, II the PtnhsylNa
ut r,1d is running trains No trans are moving over
! thr cleveland ana Pit sburg road TO day.
The mails have also been ntcrfered with at ST.
Louis. AS the following dispatch signed by George
W Parker. General Manager of the st. Louis, Alton
and Terre HIautc Railroad and dated at st. Louis
| this afternoon, shows:
4" IavIrss body of men now holding sway at East ST
Iouf m forciniy stopped tue running or our regular
train CARRYING tue mails this inOruihg Inc c'H "ul"oIf
- me- i,1,yercss 10 render adcqulte assistance ana 20
snvr ooi shed aud tue wh0es e destruction 0i properly
f rad nave thus lar yielded to threats ana lhtlhda-
ton only"
TIE CABINET RESOLUTE.
| ,,r,,o-r pnwrR OF THE GOVERNMENT TO BE