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ten O'Clock for VIcksburg and the bends O. Hewitt
has charge of her office
The new steamer ]. NJ White is loading al Cairo
for New Orleans, and will pass here about Thurs
day.
pay1ng-of cruise.
With big trip. She added here $50 packages mis-
ceilanecsIs freight
The Mark Twain. Captain ]. D. Randall is the
packer this evening at five O'Clock for all points on
ST Francis river. Birdie Banning is her clerk
Inc Golden Rule passed down early Yesterday
morning with full load She unloaded her model
barge, o. p Shinkle and left IT here until her return
trip up: -,.,.- -, .-,,, 49,. 49,. 49,,
caution that health officials subiecting US In
the city to, We will escape this yeowfever business
The Boston White river clerk Mr. Ed Crowell, of
the Ruth vii leave the boat and return by rail and
go TO Pittsburg to take charge of the Office OF the
new Josie Harry, which leaves that place inside OF
two weeks for Memphis.
The officers of the Golden Crown and her agent
here at Memphis have not covered themselves 'all
over with glory in this yellow-fever business:
take more than words TO clear up.
The Maumelle Captain Thomas Darragh In com
mand, will be found In port this morning, receiving
for her return trip to Arkansas river She gets away
at five O'Clock this evening, going through to Little
Rock. Charles MusSelman is her clerk.
Captain Walker the officer commanding the
Golden Crown was handed by Dr. Lawrence, OF tue
tee Memphis health officer. to be delivered to the
tug that went to visit the Crown from the port of
Memphis, which DE-. Erskine did not get. 1t stands
the captain of the Crown and the officials OF the tug
which did visit her. to explain what became Of that
letter.
The proudest man In three Kingdoms is Bob Speed
not much because that new Arkansas river
packet Is named after his boy, but because she Is
OF the prettiest boats built for southern
trade. Those Interested in the Arkansas river trade
Just went overheard in ecstaces over her beautiful
arrangements and comely proportions. She's a
daisy, and no mistake. Ed Rowland had her built
just like he wanted her, and that accounts for her
excellence over all predecessors.
The Katie Hooper, which enters the Memphis and
Cincinnati trade this afternoon, Is OF the neat
Memphis Especially will this remark apply to her
passenger accommodations She is almost entirely
new, has all the modern conveDienceS OF a paSsen-
ger packet, and like creased streaS of light
ming. Tn Sc contemplating trip up the country
should not let the opportunity slip to go up the
Hooper. Captain Rowland knows how to make peo-
pie feel at home his boat, and when you consider
now niue money II lakes 70 go east on tne doOper
this route than 1t is to board at home and do your
own housework See sCaptain LIghtburne and he
will enthuse you with facts about travelling that
eff to aOnto
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Maximum Thermometer, 92 deg
Minimum thermometer, 40 deg.
W. MELRoY. Sig. Serg't. U. S. A.
BY TELEGRAPH
NEW ORLEANS, August 5.-Arrtved: Belle of
s,a5eveP1F St Louis 30 No departures Weather
CINCINNATI. August 5.-River ID feet inches
and falling Weather clear and warm. Night
River rising. Weather clear and warm.
LOUISVILLE, August 5.-Weather clear and
warm. Departed Jas. W. Gaf. Cincinnati River
rising, with feet inches in the canal.
PIITsBURG. August 5--RIyeE feet and falling.
inches and falling Weather cloudy and hot.
EVANSVILLE, August 5.--weather clear and
hGt Mercury 75 to deg River Ito feet and
CAIRO, August 5-ATived Belle Memphis, ST.
Louis, IL pm; Vicksburg, midnieht. Departed:
Belle Memphis, ViekSburg, 2 am; New J: N; White
Weather clear and warm. Night River 10 feet 5
noon. Weather clear. Mercury SO deg.
Movements at the Aevee.
ARRIVALS.
Colorado, Vicksburg; Centennial. st. Louis; John
B. B. Maude, st. Louis: Golden Rule, Cincinnati;
Point; Mark Twain, st. Francis river; Gold Dust
New Orleans.
Centennial, New Orleans; Golden Rule, New Or
leans; Colorado, ST. Louis; Golddust, St Louis;
West Wind, johnson Landing; Coahoma, Frlars
Point
Mark Twain, Katie Hooper.
BOATS DUE.
DO1cn-Belle Memphis.
Up-Maumelle, City of vlcksburg, A. j. White
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
CNcISNATI-Katie Hooper, Ed Rowland, master,
five pm.
ARKANSAS RIyER-Maumelle Thos Darragh, mas
ter, five pm.
ST. FRANCIS RIyER-Mark Twain, ]. d. Randall,
master, five pm.
YICKsBURG- Belle Memphis, Jas. A. Yore, master,
ten am.
RECEIPTS.
Mark Twain--Lot of beer kegs and sundries.
Coahoma-20 bales cotton, % SKIS cottOn-seed, 40
pkgs sundries.
Golden Rule, g bxs roofing, burial cases, bdls
woodstrps, 10 head sheep.
West Wind-2 bales cotton, $50 SKIS cotton-seed,
13 SKIS corn, 20 tons old iron steer, lot of sun
dries
John B. Maude-1O34 hrls -four, 20 brls meal, s
hrfs tar, 3I5 rolls baggfng, I20 pals lard 800 feet
lumber, 500 pkgs sundries.
LeVee Paragraphs.
Business dull
The local packets went out last evening with fair
trips.
The Golddust passed up yesterday at noon with a
good trip for st Louis.
The John Gilmore and barges passed I'D Sunday
morning for St. Louis.
The Anchor-Lfne packet City of V!cksburg was
due up last night for st. Louis.
The Belle Memphis. Captain James A. Yore COM
handing, is the Anchor.Line packet this morning at
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BY TELEGRAPH

IBI TELEGRAPH.l
NEW YORK. August 5.-Money market easy, "a
Dig per cent closing at per cent. Prime meTcan
tile paper. 3d3l2 per cent. Customs receipts, S43S-
600. The assistant treasurer discussed $40, 900.
bills 4S3; sight exchange on New York 4s6Is. GOLD
sold at 1OOl2 throughout the day Carrying rates,
cent and fiat. Government bonds were Irregular;
coupons OF 1881 10ISs do; 1865 new, 102Ss;
4l2s IO4ss; new Is, lUO5s 1040s resistered ooIs;
10-40s coupons, 100; currency It's. l2Ol2. Stale
%; Tennessee Q. Lev, $3.50; Virginia IS Old
20i virginia 6s. new, 20; Missouri Us, 100:
opened active and the selling movement I'm St. Paul
sent the preferred shares down Dip and common ~
per cent The decline WIS attributed TO no receipts
OF wheat at MilNaukee to-day and to untayorable
crop reports. Northwestern fell 2l2n2A per cent,
In sympathy win >. Pdul ana the rest OF the mar
Union Pacific, which were firm During the after
noon the market was strong and higher the ad
vance from tue lowest points ranging from Y 70 2S4
per cent with coal stocks and granger shares most
conspicuous IN toe Improvement The former
closed generally higher than on Saturday. In ths
inal sales there was slight reaction from the best
figures of the day. Transactions aggregated 1872 900
shares, or which $500 we're Erie, 1900 Lake
Shore, $4,000 Northwestern common and 23,OOO
preferred, 1000 Rock Island 30 900 St Paul COM
$500 New Jersey Central, 2IOO Delaware and Hud-
SON 23O0 Morris and Essex. 29OO Union Pacific and
$500 Western Union. Closing quotations were:
Western Union teie graph company. sSS4, Qucksl-
yer. l2 Quicksilver preferred, ~; Pacific Mail,
l6l4 Martposa, l003s; Marposa preferred, 10I
press company. IS; Acams express company
~; United states express company, A;
New York Central, 1878; Erie I75s Erie preferred
1885,; Harlem, l3S; Michigan Central, 90;
Panama, l27; Union Pacific stock, G3I2; Lake Shore,
tJI5s; Illinois Central. 1888; Cleveland and Pitts
burg, Tql5; Northwestern, 34Is; Northwestern pre-
ferred. 65ls Cleveland Columbus, Cincinnati and
Indianapolis, 23Is; Kew Jersey Central, 80; Rock
Island, l1234; St Paul, 3lSl; st. Paul preferred,
40; wabash, Il3I4; Fort Wayne,q3 Terra Haute,
lOIIs; Terra Haute preferred, I0212 Chicago and
Alton, 81; Chicago aud Alton preferred, l02; Ohio
and Mississippi, 1885, Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western 6}3; Atlantic and Pacific telegraph, 24l5;
Missouri Pacific, 1OIA; Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy lIOI4; Hannibal and st. Joe, III; Cen
trail Pacific bonds I055s; Union Pacific bonds,
1858; Union Pacific land grants, 105l2; Union Pa
cifc sinking funds, 1924
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GENERAL TRADE.

During the week the general market has
been dull. Quarantine is lending its assistance to
depress activity. There is a demand for groceries,
and provisions are In active demand. We quote
pork, bacon and lard all higher and very firm Corn
is as heavy as lead, except white corn for grinding
Cornmeal recovered five cents. The boat arrived
but brought very little Of It. Vegetables and fruits
are too quiet TO require remark. Eggs were scarcer
than ever; shippers have lost so much By sending
them here that they have become famine scarce.
Chickens are also in small receipt at last and they
have crept up 25c dozen.
Corn was Offering freely. but orders were hard to
hDd, and rates declined; no buyers could be found
Tor yellow, which could be had from store as low as
4Ic sales Of so sacks inferior at 4Oc; 80 sacks of
white at 4bc % anu IA sacks CT white ear corn at
44c Outs were quiet; last sales al Csc a bushei.
Hrrrs-Sale of car load at S12 so sacks at Sl2 %.
Hay sales OF carload OF prairie at So, and car
load OF choice timothy at SI4 IS. Corn
meal was higher; sales were at
81 30: Potatoes were 75d90c a barrel measure
and 81 Tor choice; In store, 81 251l 40 In ship
ping order. Onions duh at 81 25d2 25, the latter
Ior Italian. Cabbage, S4Jl4 so per crate. Apples
zoe 20 81 barrel measure. according to quality
81 5O01 20 In shipping order: Kentucky, choice.
81 90 PedcheS-but Few good cnes arriving. 306
5Oc box. Eggs were scdrcer than before, and sold
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0uinine and Arsenic

Form the basis of many of the Ague remedies In
the market, and are the last resort of physicians
and people who know no better medicine to emplo
for this distressing complaint The effects Of either
of these drugs are destructive to the system, pro-
ducng headache. intestinal disorders, vertigo dz-
zIness ringing of the ears. and depression of the
constitutional health. AYERS AGUE CURE is a veg
eabe discovery containing neither Quinine arsenic,
nor any deleterious Ingredient and is infallble
and rapid cure for any form of Fever and Ague. It's
effects are permanent and certain, and no injury
can result from its use. Besides being positive
for Fever and Ague In all Its FORMS 1t is also
superior remedy for Liver Complaints. 1t Is an ex-
celent tonic and preventive, we'll cure, of all
complaints peculiar to malaIiOus, maIshy and mi
asmatc districts. 1t acts directly on the Liver and
hillary apparatus, thus stimulating the system to a
vigorous, healthy condition.
For SALE DEALERS
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Saturday. August 10, ISIS,

within legal hours the following described property
situated In Shelby county, Tennessee, In range +,
section 2, of the 18th Surveyors District, the
waters OF the LOoSa Hatchie. being part of POP
tract the portion to be sold being described
follows: Beginning at a stake "a chains and 20
links west of the southeast of said 20-acre
tract; thence west 21 chains and 80 links to stakes
thence north A chains to stake: thence east 46
chains to a stake thence south chains to a stalker
thence west "a chains 20 links to stake; thence
south 33 chains to the beginning containing I22Is
acres.
Also the remainder interest in so acres, being
part OF the said 202acre tract set apart dover to
the widow OF a. N. Davis, deceased; said 80 acres
being described as follows: Beginning al a stake
the southeast corner of said 202acre tract; thence
west "a chains and 20 links to stake; thence north
80 chains to a stake; thence asst "a chains and 20
links to stake, and thence south 33 chains to the
beginning.
Terms of Sale-Cash. This July 10, 1878
E. A. COLE, Clerk and Master.
D. NJ. Scales, Sol. for cOmpln {. iyl6 tue
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Cotton Exchange Quotations.

LBY TELEGRAPHT
The following are the New York market reports
for YESTERDAY: Ordinary, 10 1-16c; good ordinary,
10 l5-l6c; low middling, IL l6c; middling,
IL 15-16c; good middlng, II 3-I6c. AT 1910,
steady; l2;40, steady; 2:35, firm; 3:I2, firm.
Sales, 1880 bales.
The following are the closing rates In New York
futures for yesterday and Saturday.
Months LlIU beTore SqfsfrCfaU
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DRY GOODS.

NEW YORK, August 5.-Busness was fairly active
with package houses Cotton goods are in steady
demand and very strong in price. Prints are in good
demand and firm. Leading makes of glnghams
we're opened and are selling freely. Shawls were
more active. Wool tannels are in steady request,
Ou0t
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LEGAL.
Administrators Notice.

HAVING been appointed and qualified by the
IL Probate Court of Shelby county administrator
on the estate of Mrs. Susan E Drury, deceased,
tice Is hereby given thar all pei having claims
against said estate shall present them to my attOT
ney, j. NJ Gregory. 43is Madison street; and those
owing the estate will please call there and settle
JOHN h. LAFORGE, Admir-.
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Chancery Sale of Real Estate.

No 1875 hancery Court of Shelby county-Por-
ter, Taylor d Co. VS.. j. NJ. Williams ct al
BY virtue of an interocutoTy decree for sale, en-.
tered In the above cause on the 2Sth day of June,
1878, Will SELL at public auction to the highest
bidder In front of the clerk and masters Office COURT
house building. Main street, Memphis, Tenn on
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Saturday, August IL, 1875,

within legal hours, the following described property,
situated In Shelby county, Tennessee. to-wit: known
as part OF lot No. TO- In block SO: Beginning at a
stake 81 feet west of the intersection of the south
line of Vance street with the west line of Orleans
street, thence west 30 feet; thence south with Pet
tits east line 156 feet to 20fOot alley; thence
with the north line of said alley 30 feet thence
north 156 7-12 feet to the beginning
Terms OF Sale-Cash. Equity of redemption
barred July IS 1878. E. A. COLE, 6 and II,
Smith Collier, Soils. for complnt
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The cotton market ye steIday (Mohday) presented
the features that have become almost steI eotyped
here, active demand, with light offerings quota
lions remained unchanged and firm, kilograms
ported changes Of interest. Liverpool was again
without report owing to the semi-annual bank holi-
day; business will be resumed there to-day.
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CHANCEKY SALES.
Chancery Sale of Real Estate.

No. 3O76, n. R. -Chancery Court of Shelby county,
James A. Clay VS.. Henry N Davis ct al
By virtue of interlocutory decree for sale en-
tered In the above cause on the 9TH day of July,
1875, and renewed July 3, 1873, Will sell at pub
Lie auction to the highest bidder, In front of the
Clerk and Masters office, Courthouse Building, Main
street, Memphis, Tenn. on
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saturday. August 10. Iszs,

within legal hours the following described property
situated In Shelby county, Tenn, tOw!t: Commence
ing at the northeast corner of John Wildberger's
305-acre tract; running west TO stake on the Cow
Island road thence south with said Cow Island road
to stake thence due east to stake on the eastern
boundary line of said BIS acre tract; thence north
with said boundary line to the beginning, contain
Ing nine 90 acres, more or less together with all
the appurtenanceS thereuntO belonging.
Terms of Sale-On credit of II months puT
chaser to execute note with approved securty lien
retained to further secure the purchase money.
Equity of REDEMPTION barred. This July Is, 1878.
E. A. COLE Clerk and Master.
Dabney n. Scales, Sol. for compln't.
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Tone Of the market at 1905, steady; 1861
steady; 1870, quiet and firm; :35, firm; 2:3O
firm; 312, firm. Sales, $1,000 bales
New Orleans closed strong at 11Ssc for middling
80 bales; no exports; stock, 30 bales.
The movement at the ports was reported as fol-
lows
Week Week. Last Year
Reefs since Friday 9g9l QIqI All
Exp'ts TO q. Britain 478Il 3677i 7IS
EXpts TO Continent 100 III 25
stock. ............. 72,54S qS,328 166,952
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RIVER NEWS.
Weather and River

The table and dispatches below give off
cial particulars concerning the weather and rivers:
OFFICE SIGNAL SERVICE OBS, U. SAL
MEMPHIS August 5, 1878,
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COPARTNE RSHIP.
Copal'tnership Notice.

THIS is to notify. that Mr.. JULIUS KUHN has
i been given an interest in our business, to take
effect from and after this date. The firm name will
continue a. heretofore. VIM FRANK & CO.
e- Referring to above notice, my connection with
Messrs. Menken Brothers ceases from date Thank
ing my friends and the public generally for past
yoFs, / would most respectfully solicit a share of
their patronage for my new firm.
Memphis August l, 1873. JULIUS KUHN.
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"btIOW nIRn WdLtf mark OF 1914.
LOCAL OBSERVATIONS YESTERDAY.
Time Bar rberI Wind Rain weather
Ao' Doi' tn0i "iAo Fall. "e"'nei'
700 am. 1892 | II IN. CLEAR.
200 pm. 29.S7 | 80 NV. Fair.
800 pm, 1885 | - N W. CLEAR.
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ChancerH Sale of Real Estate.

No. 22q7- Chancery Court Of Shelby county-C.
Wildberger. Admx of John WidbeTger VS.. Phoebe
Meinrath ct al.
By virtue of an interlocutory decree for sale.
tered In the above cause on the Sd day OF July,
1878, will SELL at public auction, to the highest
bidder in front of the Clerk and Masters office,
Courthouse Building Main street. Memphis, Tenn.
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aaE ~ ass az hs b bSIs s
week Worlds visible supply, July 26th, 1,47S,0 21
bales, against 2,10O SO bales the same time last
year.
The following shows the weeks movement at Liv-
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The following table shows the comparative week
y total receipts and stock 10 date at all United States
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Paducah ana Memphis.
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Memphis aud Little Rock.
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RAILROAD TIMETABLES.

and Nashville and
Great Southern.
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2:i5 pm. IL % am.
! 30 pm. $40 am.
5.45 am. 4:lO pm.
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Mississippi and Tennessee.

New orleans Nail. daily
Sarus Accommodation, dal-
lyteIcrpi sundays. .-..'
Freight and Acoommotn n,
daily leNc-ut sundays
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Memphis and Charleston.

1900 pm. il.45 am.
h:i5 pm. 1:5S am.
500 am. a:35 am
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WASHINGTON.
ConEresslonal ProceedIngs.


WASHINGTON, April 9.-SESATE-Sena
toc Morrill, reported from the france
committee a bill to repair and put in
operation the mint at New Orleans,
which vas placed on the calendar. Sena.
tor Morrill, said it was the opinion of the
committee hat this would afford all ad.
ditional mint facilities.
The finance committee this morning
discussed the house bill to repeal the
specie resumption act, and will again
consider the measure at a special meet
ing Friday next.
The general deficiency bill was re-
ported and placed on the calendar.
The senate committee on military at.
fairs agreed to recommend the passage
Of Spencer's bill appropriating $50, 600
for a military telegraph from Desdwood
to Fort Ellis, Montana, embracing the
line Of military posts on t. Yellowstone
and Big Horn rivers.
At the expiration Of the morning hour
the unfinished business of the Pacific
railroad funding bill was considered, and
Senator Edmunds advocated the bill Of
the judiciary committee.
HoUsE.-Mr. Wright offered a concur
rent resolution proposing to issue four
hundred million dollars of United States
notes, to be known as national money.
It recites at length the present business
distress throughout the country, and di
reefs the issue of four hundred million
dollars, United States notes, to be a legal
tender for ell debts public and private,
and to be placed in circulation at the
earliest possible moment. Referred.
Mr.. Wright asked 10 have the r~esslu-
ton printed in the Record, butt was oh.
jecten to by Mr., Townsend, who said the
Workingmen could not afford to pay for
printing the stump speech of the gentle
man.
Mr.. Buckner, chairman of the commit.
tee on banking aud currency. reported a
bill providing for the issue of 1922, $780,
$40 Of treasury notes for the retirement
Of national bank notes. which are to be
received in payment of one third Of Gus.
toms duties. Referred to the committee
Of the whole.
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Tnsorls. or the SOM. nsa,.

As yet no perfectly satisfactory basis
has been found for a theory of the suns
heat which shall be quite in accordance
with accepted HYPOTHESIS OF the earth's
formation. The contraction of the suns
mass is estimated as giving out heat for
only 2O,0Oo,000 years, while the strati6.
cation Of the carth's crust may have
taken twenty-five times that period.
Professor Croll has devised a theory,
which was described in these columns
some months age, designed to meet the
difficulty. he shows that the period of
the suns heat may have been immensely
longer, II we suppose that that luminary
was originally to separate bodies travel
ing through space at a velocity
OF 800, 1000 or 1850 miles
per second, aud that these bodies
came into collision. Professor Daniel
hirkwood, reviewing DR.. Crolrs by.
pothesis, considers it unsatisfactory, be.
cause 1t has no sufficient basis IN the
facts OF observation. We have no knowl.
edge Of a more rapid motion than two
hundred miles per second among the
stars, aud the olancs OF collision arc
remotely improbable. On the whole It
seems to the Professor more difficult to
grant The demands OF Dc. Cr0lls hypo.
thesis than to believe that in former ayes
the %stTati6oation of'the earth preceded
more rapidly than now. But Professor
hirkwood is an astronomer. and il Is not
particularly surprising that he prefers 10
put the burden on the shoulders OF the
biologists, or that be can less readily
conceive of a change in the method Of
doing things in the sky than on the earth.
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mail Faeu,usa.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-The report Of
the special commission on railway mail
transportation was presented to both
houses Of congress to-day. 1t is signed
by Daniel NJ. Fox aud Geo. A. Bassett,
postal commissioners, who recommend
space and speed instead Of weight as the
basis Of compensation, reserving the
privileges commended for by the postoGice
department and giving to the public
b 'tter mail facilities than ever before.
The expenditures under the rates rec.
commended will not be materially in.
creased over those Of the present yer.
The tabulated returns show a varia.
ton Of from 2s3 to l04 mills in oper
ting expenses per lineal loot Of train,
while the receipts range from 364to 1896
mills, showing that the profit on some
roads where the rates ere low is larger
than other roads where the rates are
high; and therefore the adoption Of an
average rate, applicable TO all lines, that
would give to each route a uniform per
centage Of profit, was impracticable.