, 1880-12-17

During November the mints coined ST.
$4,000 gold and S2,3OO,0OO silver.
The secretary Of the interior on Dec.
lst issued orders providing for an increase
of one hundred pupils in the number OF
Indian youth now educated at the Forest
Grove, Oregon, industrial school ana LOT
forty or fifty additional Mt the llamptoh'
Va, school.
An international Cotton Exposition
| Association has been organized at Atlanta,
| Go. with Senator Jos. B. Brown, of Geor-
ola. president and twenty-five vice presl-
| dents from the principal cities ana man
ufacturing towns of the country. The
plan contempmtes grand International
exposition o. cotton appliances ana ma
chinery.
The annual report of the commissioner
of internal revenue gives the following
figures as amounts of aggregate col ectlons
| for the year in the districts named: CaIl-
fornia. Collector Highly district, S2,4Sl,-
65l; Collector Frost, SS45, 9S4; Nevada
district, $50, ,4I5; Oregon, Sl6,9S2; Wash
ington Territory, S27, ,0Sl; Arizona, SO, 1884;
Colorado, Sl6S,259.
It is authortatyely stated that the new
Chinese treaty will be sent to the senate
early in the session, so rs to dispose OF 1t
as Quickly AS possible. California repre-
sentatiyes, who have inquired diligently,
say that it Will, in great measure, satisfy
the coast, though not entirely. III IS oe-
leved that no attempt will be made 10
pass Chinese restrictive bill until afler
the treaty is disposed Of
The New York Graphic says; Wander
| bilt has entered into an understanding
| with five of the heaviest holders OF Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy stock that he
shall buy Sj0D0,O0O worth OF shares, and
this understanding contains further
stipulation that the investment shall be
permanent and it shall be given represent
tatiOn in the next board OF directors
contigent, however, upon the execution
of the scheme projected by Jay Gould. a
similar under. landing exists between
Vanderbilt and The heaviest holders OF
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. Van"
| derbilt does not care to enter the direc-
| ton of these lines unless it shall be nee.
essary as measures of defense against the
hostile conf ination of Gould.
1t is announced that the second treaty
drawn up by the U. S. commissioners and
the Peking government proposes that the
Americans shall not import opium or
carry the product coastwise or sell it. 1t
is not known positively, full report of
the treaty not having been sent by cable,
whether this is true or not, but this is not
discredited; but it is thought quite likely,
because the Chinese government has been
long opposed to the importation Of opium
into China. Anne, lean vessels were for
merly engaged III the business of opium
smuggling, but very little is done by
Americans III that business nowadays.
The prohibitional clause will not affect
Americans and was probably inserted in
the treaty by the Chinese as compelling
the British to similar agreement, as
large proportion of the revenue of British
India comes from opium and China is the
greatest customer for Indian opium. If
the Chinese have granted to the United
States any special privileges in the new
treaty, the British will ask to have similar
privileges granted them.
On last Friday the grand jury of New
York county indicted Josh Hart, Louis
Post, Kennard Philip and Chas. A Byrne
of the Truth for criminal libel on Garfield;
Hart, Byrne rld Post, charged, the first
named for writing and the others for
publishing or the 22d OF October last an
editorial headed Lying and Sticking to
1t" in the Truth newspaper, and also pub
fishing the alleged Carf lid Chinese letter
and fac-simile of it, and by these means
unlawfully, wickedly and maliciously de-
vising as much as in them lay to injure
and villify James A. Garfield and to bring
him into public scandal and disgrace, and
to deprive him of his good fame, credit
and reputation, and to the great scandal
and injury of James A. Garfield and
against the peace of the people of the
; state of New York and their dignity.
These parte' are charged with criminal
libel, the penalty of which is one year in
the penitentiary and $3.50 fine. Bail was
given by Philip. After examination by
Judge Davis was continued, Post and Hart
came tO the district attorneys office in
the afternoon to give bail, but Judge Cow
ing had gone home aud they were permit
ted to go on their own responsibility till
. tomorrow morning, when they will fur
. nish the necessary bonds. 1t is probable
now that Morey has been indicted for
perjury, he will be removed from the
house of detention to the Toombs.
, Gen. Francis A. Walker, superintendent
OF the census, has submitted his regular
, annual report to the secretary of the in
terror He says that althoug the work
of taking the tenth census is substantially
complete. returns having been received
/ from all but seven of the total numb,r
, 1885 enumeration districts it will prob
ably be two or three weeks before the o.
nee will be able to present complete sta>
tistics of the population Of the country,
. and he therefore considers it advisable to
= postpone to future report all mention
J OF the result, of the enumeration and all
! discussion ot methods in use, as well as
f suggestions which may require to be made
OF changes in the census law with refer
J ence to future enumeration. The super
lntendent says every year and every
, month which can be saved in the COM
pllatlon and publication Of census statis-
tics adds apprecably to their value, and
recommend that congress be asked to
authorize the printing by special contract