The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-17
From Washington.

General Garfield has written letter from
his home at Mentor, Ohio, to Senator Hoar,
chairman of the Republican National COM
MitIee, accepting the nomination rendered him
by the Chicago convention. In the letter
General Garfield cordially approves the Chica-
60 platform; declares that there is no freedom
end federation of political opinion and action +"
in the South; favors free and honest cleo
tons; deprecates any change in the national
financial methods; tavors measures foc the
Improvement OF the Mississippi river; de-
clai'es that Chinese emigration is " too much
like an importation to be welcomed without
restrictions, too much like an Invasion to be
looked upon without solicitude," and asserts
that civil service reform should be made
effective by the aid OF proper congressional
legislation.
The treasury department has purchased
$4,000 ounces Of silver for coinage into
standard dollars
A statement made by the postoffice depart.
ment shows that the issues OF postage stamps,
stamped envelopes and postal cards during
the past fiscal year amounts to SO 1882, 80
an increase OF nearly So, 500, 600 over the pre-
ceding year. This percentage is about double
the average rate OF increase during the pre-.
vious five years. The greatest proportionate
increase is in postal cards, the issues of which
amounted to $2,753,470, against $2,2l7 ,9l7
for 1879. The largest actual gain was in post
age stamps, which during the year aggregated
$22, Ala, 928-an increase OF 1927, $50 over
the preceding year. The issues of newspaper
and periodical stamps in 1879 amounted to
$I,0SS,4ll, and 81, 1852, 903 for the fiscal year
OF 1880.
The President has appointed Orange Judd,
OF New York, and OF the american .dgrfcul-
turiSt, to be member of the board of Indian
commissioners, vice Barstow, resigned.
The treasury department has prepared a
statement showing in detail the operations
connected with the retirement and refunding
OF the United States bonds and the amount OF
interest saved by the transaction. The entire
amount saved by the rebuilding from Decem-
Der l, 1871, to July /, 1880, is stated to be
$5S, 2S9, 1853. The total amount of bonds re-
funded is 81 1896, 347, 800.
At cabinet meeting it was determined
to investigate the recent Narragansett dis
aster on Long Island Sound, in order to
determine if the steamboat inspectors were in
any way responsible.
According to the report OF Colonel Worth
ington, statistician OF the agricultural depart
ment, the wages of farm laborers throughout
the United States have increased during the
last fiscal year. The report says that in the
Pacific and mining States and Territories the
range OF monthly wages for farm laborers
without board Is between YOU. 10 IN montana
and $22.5U in Washington Territory. Of the
States east ct the Mississippi, Minnesota pays
her farm laborers better than any other North
ern State, the monthly wages with board
being 1888, while Vermont pays $l2.62.
In the Southern States the prices paid range
from $12.26 in Louisiana to 1872 in South
Carolina, the average being 500
The Hon. John Allen Campbell, late third
assistant secretary OF state, died at his resi-
dence in Washington, few days ago, aged
forty-five years.