Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-19

treasury department shows that of vessels
wrecked or in distress with an aggregate of
926 persons on board, 1872 have been as
sisted by revenue cutters. The estimated
value of the property saved is about 81, 7OO,-
900, end l42 persons were actually rescued
| from death y drowning. The expenses of
the revenue marine service for the year end
ing June 80, 1873, were $s44.001. Number
Of vessels in the service. 81.
STEAM INSPECTION SERVICE
Supervising Inspector General James A.
Lamont, of the steam inspection service, in
his annual report, shows the total number Of
lives lost from various causes during the fiscal
| year ending June 80, 1875 we're, from explo-
sions, SO; fire, 90; collisions, 81; srags.
| wrecks and sinking. 104 accidental drown
ing, 10; miscellaneous casualties, 4; total,
2l2. Whole number of accidents resulting
il loss of life, ~. He says: "The decrease
OF fatal casualties in tho last two years is no
doubt due to the severer discipline that has
been established in that period as compared
with preceding years. Although the service
is yet susceptible OF improvement in that
| respect, am proud to say that, SO thoroughly
have its laws been administered, in upwards
OF two hundred million persons carried on
American steamers during the last year, only
one person and one-tenth were lost in each
million. | do not hesitate to assert that
travel by steamer under the existing laws of
the United States is safer than in any other
country.
lie devotes considerable portion OF his
report to the question OF testing boiler iron,
and says cit is evidently necessary that
positive and generally accepted rule be es-
tabished for deciding this important mat
ter. 1t is believed that efforts now being
made by the office, and supported actively
by managers generally, will introduce into
market iron Of American manufacture for
marine boiler use, of quality better than
made in any part Of the world. But. what
ever the qualities of new iron, the g centric
manner of its wear under steam
IS not explained. Some plates oxidize
as soon as used. Others Of identical texture
and position wear for years without material
deterioration, and others again wearing for
denly o1idize and are decayed i'll few
months. This last condition was forcibly
illustrated by the steamer Magenta, which
exploded the outer shell OF her steam chin
ney March Sd, near Sing Sing on the Hud-
son.
He refers at length to the Magenta explo-
sion and says: "Such disasters can be
ayerted by frequent and careful inspection
There are places, however, in all boilers,
where personal inspection is impossible.
re Si--aleild &c ali steamboat owners the I'M
poltance OF demanding such tests frequent
ly, especially when after a season of inactiy-
1ty work is resumed for experience proves
that boilers deteriorate more rapidly while
idle than while continuously used.''
de says in all his efforts to improve the
service he has had the cordial support of
steam vessel owners. Ii is true that they
claim that some statist: cs are unjust to them
while atfording no advantage to the public,
and they are naturally opposed to being
compelled to purchase worthless franchises
1t is not appropriate for him to discuss their
wrongs, but he hopes justice may be done
them, for, as class, they are ready to COM
ply with every wholesome provision of law.
Of the total number OF vessels inspected
$50 belong to the Pacific coast, with a ton
mage of lOS, $50, and 1920 to the Atlantic
coast, with tonnage of 4G6,767, 500 to
Western rivers, with a tonnage of 186,932,
S57 to Northern lakes, with a tonnage of
186,37S, and 81 to the Gulf coast, with a
tonnage of GS,S3l.
WILL BE PAID.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.-The secretary of
State Declines as yet, to make public the
contents Of the dispatch mailed by him to
Minister WEIGH upon the ipt of Lord
Saulsburys letter OF the 18th inst, but there
is no reason to doubt that it contains the as
sUrance that the So, 900 awarded by the
fisheries commission will be paid before the
no ty &c
OVERLAPPING LAND GRANTS.
In the long pending controversy concern
ing the large body OF lands claimed by both
the central branch of the Union Pacific rail-
road and the Kansas Pacific railroad COM
panies, which are situated opposite the first
100 miles of constructed road west of the
Missouri river within the overlapping twenty
mile limits of tie two land grants, the secre-
tary of the interior decides that lands situ-
ated within overlapping land grant limits
should be held TO inure jointly to both com
! panies. In view, however, of questions
arising under the third sec
ton Of the act of July LIST,
1862, which were discussed in his decision of
the Dndymott case, Secretary Schurz directs
that The subject OF transferring government
| title TO these lands he reserved for further
consideration. In course OF the decision.
Secretary Schurz rules that the patent exc
cuted March 90 1876, in favor of the Cen
trail Branch company for $4,000 acres of dis
puted land, was rightly Cancelled by his pre-
decessor, because it lacked one requisite of
transfer of title, namely, acceptance by the
grantee.
MISCELLANEOUS.
WASHINGTON, Nov. DISSATISFACTION to
the per cent. loan to- day, ST. ,130,4o0
The following appointments were made by
the President to day: Myron E. II. Howell,
Michigan, principal clerk of public lands in
the general land Office; Waiter r. Irwin,
Illinois, principal clerk of private land claims
in the general land Office.
Weather To-day.
! WASHINGTON, Nov. l9-l A. NJ Indications
For upper lake region, partly cloudy weather,
rain areas, followed by clearing weather, warm
southwest, vcering to colder northwest winds,