Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-11
CURRENT NEWS.
GENERAL.

A general advance In through passenger
rates was made by the trunk lines Of rail-
way on the I'd. The new rate is-New
York to Chicago, SIS; to indianapolis, ST.;
to Cincinnati, $16; to St. Louis, $23.
The public debt statement for January 1
shows an increase during the preceding
month of IS, 5S5, 742. The total debt, less
$137, O01, 27s cash in Treasury, was So, 0S9,-
1896, 099.
The trunk lines of railway on the LIST ad-
vanced the rates IN grain from Chicago to
New York to So cents per bushel-an adj
vance of 5 cents per bushel.
The Statistician Of the Department of
Agriculture, in his December report,
makes the corn crop only two per cent.
short of the great crop of last year, and so
per cent. greater than the crop of 1874.
The aggregate, subject to future revision,
is l, 1896 ,000, 600 bushels. Less than one
per cent. of the crop is raised in New
England, scarcely six per cent. in the Mid
die States, 20 in the Southern, A in the
Ohio basin, and 20 west of the Mississippi.
The product of the South is 10, 900 900
bushels greater than that of last year; that
OF New England 3OO, 900 bushels greater,
and there is less in the Middle and Western
States. The average price of corn per
bushels highestin Massachusetts,, and low
est in Kansas, 50 and % cents respectively.
The bill to establish the Territory Of
Huron, which passed the Senate last week,
proposes to create the new Territory out of
the northern part Of the present Territory
of Dakota. The present Territory of d.
kota contains 150, 932 square miles, and the
new Territory would have an area Of about
10000 square miles. It is to be par
allelogram, extending from Mime
sofa on the east, something less than 400
miles to Montana on the west, and from the
British Possessions on the north 200 miles
to the boundary of the remaining territory
on the south. Its population is estimated
at about 10, 900. 1t is said that one Of the
best farming regions in the United States
lies in the proposed new Territory.
President Grant, on the 3lst, granted
another interview to a press reporter, the
substance Of which, as published, is as fol-
lows: The President believes that the exist
ing Republican State Governments of South
Carolina, Louisiana and Florida will not be
disturbed, except in the event of Mr.. Til
, denis accession to the Presidential chair, in
which event he is of opinion that neither of
them could stand "a hours. Ia regard to
Louisiana, he stated that the orders
issued to the military c~ommandant in 1872
had not been modified in any particular,
and that the United States troops would be
used there, if necessary, to protect life and
property and to preserve the peace. He
believed that the Presidential Electors in
the three States named had been legally
elected and duly returned. He thought the
action Of the Louisiana Returning Board
was final and that there could be no appeal
from it's decision; but adverted to the fact
that the electoral vote Of that State had
not been counted since 1860.
In regard to the counting of
the electoral votes by Congress, he believed
that the law and precedents gave to the
President of the Senate the power to open
n count the votes, but that presidents
also established the right of either House to
object to the counting. In case either House
should see fit to object to counting the votes
from any State, it would be difficult to say
where it might end, and he very much fear
ed that no final decision would be arrived
| at before the 4th of March, when the pres
N ent Executive term ended; in which case,
! in his opinion, the President of the Senate
WOulu CCOLu [AStiuS l. lCSIUCuO Wuilt JuS
present Cabinet officers Except the Post
master-General, whose term Of office is
limited by the law would continue until
their successors were appointed. In con-
c%lusion, he reiterated his belief that the
States of Arkansas, Alabama and Missis-
sippi would have gone Republican by large
majorities if the elections there had been
fair, free and peaceable.
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections on the Goth commenced taking
testimony in regard to the disputed Oregon
Elector. On the 30th the committee ad-
journed until the 3D..
Judge Duell, Commissioner of Patents,
has resigned.
The Democratic certificates of the Presi-
dental Electors in Louisiana and South
Carolina were delivered to Senator Ferry on
the I'd. No receipts were given.
Mr.. D. l.. Moody has published a card,
requesting that penny collections be taken
up in every Sunday-sch0ol in this country
on Sunday, Jam. IA, for the benefit of the
two orphan sons of Mr.. and Mrs. P. P.
Bliss, who were killed in the Ashtabula
disaster. Chicago has already raised a FUND
of $40, 600 for that purpose.
Mr.. William A. Wheeler, in a recent in
terview with a New York Herald CORE
spondent, expressed his opinion that Con-
gress has no right to go behind the returns,
further than to ascertain the regularity of
the certificates; that the action OF the Louisi-
ana Returning Beard is conclusive and final
as to the result in that State, and that had
q fair election been held there the Republic
cans would have carried the State bV IL, 900
majority. He further expressed himself
as opposed to any trade or compromise, and
says the question should be settled accord
ing to the spirit of the law.
The Legislatures OF Illinois, Missouri and
Michigan convened On the 3D..
The New York Chamber of Commerce has
adopted a report urging that silver coin be
made the standard legal tender throughout
the United States.
The Indiana Legislature organized on the
4th.
Senator Window has been renominated