The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-28
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and transportation shall be put at the service
OF. the party, which gives full assurance that
everything possible viii be done for their aid
and comfort" Ae
THE wife Of Justice Swayne of the United
States Supreme Court, died tn Washington on
the morning Of the 22d.
COMPLAINTS are made that much difficulty
is experienced in getting Indian agency sup
plies transported, caused principally by the
failure Of contractors TO perform their duty.
Large quantities of supplies, IN some cases
aggregating tons, are reported frozen upon
the rivers Of the Northwest, with no probable
ity of reaching their destination before spring.
It is the intention of the Indian Bureau to hold
the contractors to strict accountability for
their neglect. The agencies are making loud
calls for vaccine matter ei.r
PRESIDENT ARTHUR left Washington on the
2od for New York, where. he intends spending
the holidayE. ,i ~sf gr
THE Treasury Department purchased 40 900
ounces of fine silver on the 22d for the San
Francisco, Philadelphia and New Orleans
mints- fil SRI rr r -a
PosTMAsTER GENERAL HOWE telegraphed
on the 22d that he would assume the duties of
his office between the 1st and ID of January
next-4-s - a.
The new Chinese Minister, whose name Is
Chung Tsao Ju, arrived at Washington ON the
22d with his wife, secretary and q retinue of
fifteen persons ~ u. 1
THE Secretary of the Navy issued the fol-
lowing circular on the 22d: SIN consequence
of numerous and increasing applications for
the discharge of enlisted men in the marine
| corps made by Senators and Representatives
in Congress and others, the Department feels
constrained to say that no such application
can be fayorably entertained in the present
condition of the service unless the application
be based upon such strong grounds as would
entitle, the applicant to be discharged on ac-
count of mental or bodily disability"
PROFESSOR ]. E. HneARD has been ap-
pointed Superintendent of the Coast and Geo
detic Survey. S ..5
PosTMAsTKRs complain Of the loss Of rev.
enue under the present system of partial pre-
payment of postage on frst-class matter, and
| the abolition of the practice is being agitated.
/ CONGRESSMAN RANDALL declares that Speak
er Keifer has gorged New York, New England
and Pennsylvania with good Places, and that
theWest and South have been entirely ignored.
he says Keifer has shown lack of courtesy
to the Democrats, and a lack Of hberality that
Is unprecedented.
MoSTUFAR, Gautemalian Minister Of For
eign Affairs, who has been at Washington since
secure, through the United States, guaran-
tee that Mex CO will be prevented from invac-
ing his and other Central American States; an
event which has been feared for some time.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYsEN received dis
patch from James Gordon Bennett on the 23d,
now in Paris, stating that Ignatieff had given
orders to send two new expeditions from va
kutska In search of the shipwrecked crew of
the Jeanette, and has directed that every avail
able means be employed to find boat No. 2
SECRETARY KIRKwooD issued, on the 23d,
twenty-seven pieces Of bounty land scrip to the
heirs of John Paul Jones, Captain in the Amer
lean Navy, in appreciative acknowledgement
of his brave and meritorious services in con-
nection with the capture OF certain British
vessel Of war.
THE cost of the mail transportation for the
year ended June 80, 1881, was Sl9, ,323, $50. The
cost Of the star service for 1881 was So 957 S55,
decrease of 497 per cent in the cost COM
pared with the amount expended during 1880.
The appropriation for the year ending June
80, 1ss2, is S7,90o,oOO, being $942, IA
or 13 IS per cent. in excess of the cost OF this
service for 1881. 1t is thought that the esti-
mate for Star service can be safely placed at
S7,250,0O0, decrease Of $3.50, 900 from the ap-
preparation for 1882, and S292, more than
the rate of expenditures June 80, 1881. In
this estimate provision is made for new service
that may be petitioned for and established
after due investigation, looking to the require
ments Of the sections interested and the postal
facilities now furnished. Had no orders been
made reducing the Star service, there would
have been needed, at the rate Of past increases,
about q, ,ooo, 900 for 1882.
THE Signal Service have about completed
arrangements with observatories in different
parts of the country to secure time signals oil
the highest degree of accuracy for the general
advantage of the people.
GENERAL JOE JOHNSTON having made the
statement that JEFF Davis got away with
g, 10000 In gold belonging to the Confeder
acy, J. c. Maynard, who was General Depot
Quartermaster at Richmond, says that wher
the Confederates evacuated Richmond he re
ceived orders to furnish transportation to Dan
vile. Among other property was about $500,
900, mostly in silver, belonging to the State Of
: |. Virginia, which was put in the cars at Dan
vile and sent to Washington, Ga, where, by
Secretary of War Breckenridge, it was dis
tributed among the soldiers. JEFF Davis had
nothing 10 do with It. There was no specie
! belonging to the Confederacy sent out of Rich
} mopd In q wagon. Maynard believed that thu
reports Of the sums of money belonging TO the
Confederacy at the close of the war were great,
exaggerated. Each Department had soms
, money to its credit in Europe, to be used fol
the purchase of supplies, but It Is difficult tc
say what became Of 1t.