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THE PosT-oFFIcEs OF THE COUNTRY,

From the report of the First Assistant Postmas-
ter-Genera for the last fiscal year it appears that
there were on the Both of June last as follows
Number of post-offices in the United States June
80, 1881, 44,512; increase during the year 800
established, 2,915; discontinued, ,415; number of
presidential offices, 1858; increase during the
year, 1O3. Pennsylvania had the largest number
OF post-otfices, 1905 Arkansas the greatest num-
Der Of established pOst-offices, 1856 Texas the
greatest number OF discontinued post-offces ~. ::
Tennessee the largest actual increase in post-offi-
ces, 49, Nevada the only one in which there
was a decrease, 3: Pennsylvania had the largest
increase in presidential post-offices, H. Number
OF mOneyordeT offices June 80, 1881, 5,lO9; ILL
nois has the largest number of money order Off
ceS 1870
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NEW ZEALAND.

Out of the 600 acres available for cult
walton in all New Zealand there were little more
than 100000 under crop last year, including
wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, and all other crops
except hay, and from this comparatively small
area more than 100000 bushels of wheat, 7OO,-
600 of barley and 5000, 900 bushels of oats were
produced; but, as general rule, wool is and will
be for some time to come, the only product that
will pay in New Zealand for export to distant
market Those who have any practical expert
ence as farmers at home and know the cost of
tillage and of rearing stock in an old country,
may form some judgment to the profit likely
to be realized by the producer, with oats at Is.
bushel beef at Us. a hundred weight, mutton at
I'd. pound, and labor at IS SIS. day. 1t is
not, under these circumstances surprising that
wool should almost monopolize the attention of
the New Zealand immigrant. If he cannot buy
land IN fee, he can at a moderate rent get
for his sheep, shear them at los. per hundred, and
ship his wool to Europe with certainty of re-
turn, varying, indeed, but tbarring rabbits
foods always remunerative. There are over
100000 sheep in New Zealand against about
2s,000000 in Great Britain and Ireland), chiefly
Merino, with fair sprnkling in the plains OF
Leicesters and Lincolns, Romney Marsh, and
Cotswolds According to Professor Hectors last
statistics there were about 10000 cattle and
10000 horses in New Zealand ten years ago, and
with reference TO aforementioned animals it may
be remarked that draft-horses and thorough breds
Of the best strains of blood have been recently
imported.-Ihe Contemporary Rerieu
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ABOUT SECRETARY BLAINE,s LETTER,

The London Times, in an editorial discussing
Secretary Blaines letter to Minister Lowell with
reference TO the Panama canal and the Monroe
doctrine, says: The weighty nature of the in
terests of America in the OF any inter-oceanic
canal through the Isthmus of Panama will be
readily admitted, bnt Mr. Blaine pushes the point
too far when he would have the world take it
for granted that no government except his own
and that of Colombia has any claim to be con-
suited in regard to the neutrality of the work
The proposition is far from self-evident. and is
unfortunately, not supported in the letter by
arguments which will make it acceptable to the
European Powers, and, least of ALL to England"
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REUNION NOTES.

The second Reunion of the old Fifty-third
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers will be held
at Milton, Northumberland county Pennsylvania
on Tuesday, December 18th.
The veteran soldiers of Maine from Sherman.
Patten, Island Falls and vicinity, went on an
excursion to Mattawamkeag Lake, Island Falls,
the first week in October. They camped out
three nights.
At the Reunion OF the Eighty fourth regiment
Pennsylvania volunteers, held at Altoona on the
Goth instant, the following were elected officers
Ofthe permanent organization: President, General
George linn: vice-presidents, Captain James
Wirsing and Captain Jonathan Derno; secreta-
ries Captain Thomas Z. Merchant, Adjutant Ed
mund Mather, and Private c. Y. Bowers; treas
urer Captain Jesse B. Young.
The Twenty-sixth Massachusetts held its eighth
annual Reunion at Lowell Mass, October Is
There were addresses by Mayor Greenhalge,
Colonel Porter, of the Fourteenth Maine, and
others, and letters received from various COM
rades, and among them from General A. s.
Badger, of New Orleans, La. After the business
meeting the veterans sat down to bOunteous
repast, TO which as matter of course they did
ample justice. The following officers were elected
to serve for the ensuing year President, Captain
James Brady; vice-presidents, Captain James A.
Troy, Lieutenant {. H. Richardson; secretary,
Lieutenant J. f. Upham; executive committee
company 4, Sergeant j. b. Wilson, Z, r. o,
Houghton; c, f. F. Peterson; d. Sergeant c. F.
Hayden; T. Corporal J. W. Loker; F, Corporal
F. H. SOper; G, Lieutenant A. Starkweather; l,
c. Z, Drew; H. Sergeant J. F. Alexander; K,
Corporal Frank Young; treasurer, Lieutenant
s. Z. Blodgett.
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c., A. r,

A Post Of the G.. 4. K is 70 be instituted in Au-
burn, Maine, one hundred signatures having al
ready been obtained.
The first Post G.. A. K. in Hancock county,
Maine, was organized at Bluehll October Sth, by
Comride j. ". Black, 4. ID. c. The Post assumes
the name James A. Garfield and has twenty
members.
A Post of the Grand Army of the Republic was
organized in Altoona last Saturday evening, and
styled DOrr Post, No. 81. in honor OF Colonel j.
+. Dorr, OF the Eighth Cavalry, editor of the Du-
bttque Herald Tor years before the war. The fol-
lowing are the names of the officers: Commander
u. c. Bshard; Senior ce-Commander Frank
Reiman Junior A. l.. McWhorter: Adiutant, N
Wheeler; Surgeon. Owen Clifford; Chaplain, j. b.
Vawter; Quartermaster, Willis Cory; officer of
the Guard, ". X. Hughes; Quartermaster Ser
geants Levi Nersawe and {. ID. Lanfield
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MIGHT BETTER HAVE BEEN IN YORKTOWN,

The aerOnauts King and Hashagan arrived in
Chicago October 22d. Mr.. King lett for his home
in Philadelphia early this week. His balloon
still remains piled up in the huckleberry swamp
in which they abandoned it, and must remain
there until the ground has been made solid by
frost 1t is doubtful if it will by that time be
worth removing If it should be possible how
ever, Mr. King has made arrangements to have
it forwarded to him. He does not consider that
his experience this trip is anything extraorli-
nary, but he does hope that he may never again
land in such place.
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DEATH OF COLONEL WENTWORTH.

Colonel George f. Wentworth, formerly of
Massachusetts, died at Pensacola. Fla October
Il, after long illness. From one who knew him
well we have received a sketch Of his life from
which extract the following:
Colonel Wentworth enlisted in the Union
Army at Lowell, Mass in 1861, in the Thirtieth
Massachusetts Volunteers, being then but nine
teen years OF age; served as company and COM
missary sergeants until February 49, 1863; then
appointed first lieutenant in Fourth Louisiana
Native Guards, afterwards the Seventy-sixth [.
S. colOred infantry. January II, 1864, promoted
10 a captaincy: March, 1866, commissioned a
major of Eighty-second e. S. colored infantry.
and in May, 1866, promoted to a lieutenant
colonelcy, and mustered out at New Orleans La
September %, 1866, having served eleven days
less than five years.
be was at the capture of New Orleans the
first attempt Vicksburg, and the battle of
Baton Rouge, August >, 1862; was on the staff
of General George /. Andrews. of General VIII
liam a. Pile and Colonel Charles w. Drew COM
manding brigade. Also served as acting assistant
acknowledgement in the First brigade colored
troops in the Mobile campaign, but was with his
regiment during the assault OH and capture of
Fort Blakely.
In May, 1865, Colonel Wentworth was ordered
from ApalachicOla with nine companies of his
regiment to Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, and
while in command OF that post, among the six
hundred more prisoners there, he had the four
Lincoln cOaspirGtors Hadd, ArnOld, Ldughlin, and
Spangler, and also ST. Leger Grenfet, who was one
OF the parties convicted of an attempt 70 burn
Chicago hotels.
In December. 1866, Colonel Wentworth was
ordered to Barancas, Fla, where he was detached
from his command and ordered to report to Major
General John G. Foster, commanding department,
and by him assigned TO duty as Judge Advocate
Of the department. In May, 1866, in the absence
of his colonel, he was in command of the post of
Pensacola harbor
Colonel Wentworth subsequently held the Of
fees of chairman OF the county board Of regis
tration of Escambia county, Fla, sheriff of his
county, State senator. United States marshal,
deputy collector of Internal Revenue, and post
master of Pensacola In June, 1890, he was again
APPOINTED postmaster of Pensacola, but declined.
He left a large circle OF friends, and his loss will
he deeply felt in the community where he resided
for SO many wears, as well AS elsewhere.
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est-a volume wherein heroism, romance, COM
edy, tragedy, all the phases of human feeling
and action would be combined-so that admira-
ton, love, humor, horror, and hate, must needs
struggle continually in the readers mind for
mastery. But at the end, horror and hate of
wrong would prove victors over all other and
tenderer passions.
The subject is one of which we do not care to
write. 1t brings up too much of sadness-too
much of suffering. But yet we believe the men,
cries of Libby. like those of Belle Isle Anderson
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PkYMASTER STEVENSON.

Secretary Hunt On Wednesday organized the
following board Of officers to re-examine Pay
master j. A. Stevenson of the Navy for promo
ton to the rank of pay inspector. The former
board reported against his promotion. paymas-
ter Stevenson is a candidate for the paymaster-
generalship Of the Navy, and the president of the
board which first examined him is also :: candi-
date for that place. The following is the board
organized by Secretary Hunt: Pay Director C. J.
Emery, Pay Director c. w Abbott, and Pay IN
spector Edwin Stewart. Around this matter
hinges one OF the hveliest fights that has been
known in naval circles for a long time
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MORE ABOUT CAPTURED FLAGS,
correspondent sends us the following:

a correspondent sends us the following:
In recent issue of the TRIBUNE noticed the
same article referred to in your last paper bv
MAJOR III. ID. O'Brien, late First Minnesota vOlun-
teers, and your note. l have in my possession,
framed, a number of pieces of rebel flags among
them piece two by four inches, and underneath
this description is written Captured at the bat
tie of Cumberland, Tennessee, by Private Albert
Essen, Second Minnesota volunteers, January 10,
1862"
| have also another, about same size a part of
red and white stripe of flag, which reads thus:
Captured from the Yallabusha rifles of Ala
hama, at the battle of the Wilderness
In reference to these flags will say that they
were taken from the originals, and an exact copy
made OF the description as written thereon.
may also say | remember well that it was diff
cult to decpher in 1864 which was correct in re-
latiOn to the flag captured by Second Minnesota
regiment, whether it was Albert Epaun or Albert
Esson. Now, if Albert Essen of theSecond Mime
sofa volunteers is alive and captured a rebel flag
at the time and place above mentioned or if dead,
his widow or child, who will identify themselves
by proper authority, your word that they
are the same, and have not in their possession
part of said flag, will divide with them. Com
rade Essen, if living, may apply to you, properly
vouched for and l will deliver it to him through
you. 1t may be asked, how came in possession
of these small pieces? l reply, rightfully; and l
will give him or them full and satisfactory assur
ance of their correctness. may say that believe,
from personal observation, that some of the cap
tured flags now held by the War Department are
not correctly marked, for the reason that in ar
ranging them at one time personally know some
were remarked at guess as to name of captOr,
time, and place.
You will see that there is flag marked
captured from the Yallabusha rifles of Ala
bama, and your note says the same rifles were a
part of the Fifteenth Mississippi. If the Second
Minnesota volunteers were not in the Potomac
Army, may not the piece of flag l have be the
correct one and captured January 19, 1862, at
Cumberland. Tenn? CAPTAIN.
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NEWS ITEMS,


! Efforts are being made to raise the English
| sloOp-Of-war De Brook, which foundered in a
storm off Lewes, Del, in 1898. Specie and
| valuable jewels are believed to be on board.
Mr.. E. W. Oyster, foreman of the Congressional
Record for the past four years, was recently re-
moved by Public Printer Defrees Mr. Oyster has
had twelve years practical experience in the diff
ferent branches of the Government Printing Of
flee, and those who are in position to know say
his management of the Record has been very sat
lsfactOry to members of Congress. He is veteran
OF the war; having served in the Seventh Penn
sylvania cavalry. No cause for the removal is
assigned, and, in fact, it is generally believed that
no good ground for it existed
Massachusetts at its election next month is to
decide the adoption of an amendment to the con-
stitutiOn by which hOnorably discharged soldiers
and sailors of the United States who have served
in war, shall not be disqualified from voting on
account of being paupers unable to pay poll
tax.
The Malley boys, of Connecticut, have had one
pretty severe trial, lasting several weeks and now
they have been bound over for trial in the SUI
preme Court for the murder of Jennie Cramer
They have queer way of doing things in the
Nutmeg State.
There are 1000 dram-shOps kept by women in
New York city Only one of the number is a
native American.
Messrs. A. NJ Calder, J. A. Baily, and A. L.
Lansing, all of Philadelphia, have won the prizes
for sketch-models of statue to be erected to the
memory of General Meade. Mr. Calder received
the first prize of 81 900.
Army officers express great surprise and aston
ishment at Mrs. Garfield's action in writing Pres
ident Arthur requesting that he appoint Colonel
Rockwell Quartermaster-General 1t would be
outrage, said One for the President to pass
right over forty other officers who rank Colonel
Rockwell, and are his peers in every respect
The Rev. DR.. Henry Highland Garrett, colored,
has been appointed Minister to Liberia
Colonel Batchelder will superintend the con-
structiOn of an avenue from Gettysburg to Round
Top Mountain. The avenue, the route for which
has been surveyed, will follow Meade's line on
the left during the second and third days of the
battle.
Mr.. J. r. Keenes Foxhall, winner of the grand
prise de Paris of the Cesarewitch stakes and
two other races at New Market this fall won the
race for the Cambridgeshire stakes at the New
Market Houghton meeting in England on the
25th
big fire in Lynchburg, Va, October 22d, de-
stroyed 100000 worth of property.
Great damage along the Mississippi river from
high water and destruction of the leyees. Rail-
road tracks submerged, bridges gone, and large
extent of country under water.
Ex-Governor Edwin d. Morgan, of New York
nominated to the Senate and confirmed as Sec
rotary of the Treasury, declined the appointment,
and Assistant Secretary French, Mr.. WINDOWS
official connection with the bureau having ter
was appointed Acting Secretary until
the Office is filled. Hon. C. J. Folger will be
nominated and confirmed in all probability with
in day or two.
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SOUTH AFRICA AGAIN,

dispatch to the London Standard from Dur
ban says: Great preparations are proceeding for
an immediate advance of the British 1t is evil
dent that it is intended to make serious demon
stration in order to compel the signature of the
convention OF that more fighting is expected
A dispatch to the Telegraph from Maritzburg
says: The Beers are reported to be massing near
the frontier" but later dispatch shows that
the preparations on the part of England had the
desired effect. and that the Beers signed the
Articles OF the Convention
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A WATER FAMINE IN NEW YORK,

October %, the Mayor of New York addressed
proclamation to the people Of the city, in which
he makes known the perilous situation of the
city in consequence Of the unprecedented drouth
and deficiency of the water supply He enioins
the people to practice economy in the use of water
and says that without copious rains the entire
reservoir supply would be exhausted in sixteen
days at the present rate of consumption. The
city would then be dependent upon the natural
flow of the Croton river which is about 10000 600
gallons per day, One-nnth of the water now used
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vile, Salisbury, and other prison-pens of the
South, ought not to be forgotten. They should
be kept in mind like those of the Old Sugar
House and Prison Ships of the Revolution to
teach the world, not only what men may do in
an unhely cause, but also what others may suffer
when they know that their cause is just
There is no danger that those whose misfortune
it was to be confined there at any time will ever
forget the fact, nor will they fail to remember
how their prison looked, even to the cracks and
seams in its walls and flooring. Nor will those
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BOOKED FOR A WARM CLIMATE.

dispatch from Eureka, Nevada, says that
James E. Anderson, who made national reputa-
ton in Louisiana during the Presidential troubles
of 1876. and who has lately been editing the
Ledder there, was assaulted October "A by w. ].
Penrose and beaten over the head with revolver
His wounds may prove fatal
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MORE INDICTMENTS.

The grand jury on Wednesday returned in
dictments against Captain II. W. Howgate as
follows: Forging the name of r. H. Rochester,
treasurer of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, to a receipt for Sl21OO. dated February,
1879; forging the same name to receipt for
S12480 August u, 1880; also one of same to
1t receipt for 81 500 October Is, 1879.
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The rotunda and the Senate wing of the Capitol
were lighted up Tuesday evening, when the
building was visited by the French guests, &C
companied by Secretary Blaine. The guests
arrived soon after eight o'clock and spent more
than an hour exploring the spacious corridors of
the building From the Capitol they proceeded
to the residence Of the French Minister MIR.
Outrey, where they held brilliant reception
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few, who, among
the many who
made the attempt,
succeeded in max
ing their escape
theretrom, ever
forget how labor
iously they toiled,
with what expect
ancy, day after
day, night after
night, until they
had secured their
freedom.
Among thenu
Der of prisoners
conf ned there
who succeeded in
" d igging out"
were ColOnels AID.
Streight and Rose,
besides many 9th
ers whose names
are omitted for
want of space.
Their reappear-
ance among their
comrades was like
a eSurrectiOn
from the dead.
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BADGER SOLDIERS IN NEBRASKA.

Nebraska has an organization of veteran Wis
consin soldiers, formed in 1880, and recognized
in 1881. 1t is otficered rs follows: Colonel, NJ H.
Seasons; Lieutenant-COIonel, c. L. Harris: Major
j. S. Miller Surgeon, X. Wilson Adjutant, II.
H. Nicholson Quartermaster, f. ID. Preston.
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Senator Sherman offered a resolution October
Is authorizing the Finance Committee TO investi-
gate the expenditures of the contingent fund of
the Treasury since July I. 1871, and that the COM
mittee have leave TO send for papers and persons.
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REBEL IS BRAGG,n

A southern wag described the rebel General
Braggs Kentucky campaign in 1862 well,
sir" said he, "Brag went into Kentucky shout
ing Veni, cidi cici, and he came ont of it bowling
Flee refsa.-4Hilwaukee Sunday Telegraph.
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LIBBY PRISON,

In this number of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE we
present a faithful picture of Libby Prison, in
which so many of those who wore the Blue dur
ing the war of rebellion, were confined his
tory of the building represented in the cut, dur
ing the years 1861-5, would require volumes to
complete. Situated on Carey street, Richmond.
Virginia, it was, prior to the breaking out OF the
rebellion, used as ship chambers and provision
store or warehouse, owned and occupied by those
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NEEDS TO BE BORN AGAIN.

A special dispatch from San Antonia Texas,
says: ALBERT Smith was last night found guilty
of robbing the LOckberry stage, and sentenced to
the penitentiary for ninety nine years
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General Francis 4. Walker has resigned the
office of Superintendent Of the Census and Hon
Charles w Seaton, of New York, takes his place
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The trial OF Gujieau has been postponed TO
November IA.
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WHOSE maine IL bed
Early in the
struggle between
the North and
South it was turn
ed into a prison;
and, with Castle
Thunder, the Old
To bacco Ware
house, and Belle
Isle, is doubtless
rem IN b cred to-
day by thousands
whom the fortunes
of war at some
time forced to be-
come its inmates.
A roll of all those
who thus occupied
it would disclose
many illustrious
names: and if a
HiStoIH uoIohiiIS
all the incidents
t that transpired
within its walls
during its use as :
a prison could be :
written, it would
make a volume of
SURPRISING inter
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AN ALLEGED CONSPIRACY.

A suit was begun i'll the CnitcdvNtdtcs Cir
cult Court Tuesday by George H. Molcr, Of this city
I'm behalf of himself and other stockholders 81 the PARIS
and Decatur Railroad Company OF Illinois. against the
COMPANY the Peoria, atlanta and Decatur Railroad
CompaDy the Midland Railway Company. the Union
rrsf COMPANY OF NcwN oiL and the officers and dllcc
tors OF the railway companies mentioned The object 81
the suit is TO set aside sale Of Tie Paris and Decatur
Road to the Peoria, Atlanta and Decatur Company the
name OF which has since been changed To the Midland
Railway Company. made In October IL L. and 10 re-
strain the Union Trust Company from prosecuting fore
closure suit under drcu ~ trust gwen To secure Tie
maynent of interest the bonds OF the rt0rshnlhd
conpapy It is alleged that all the reorganization pro
ce.diuRs and sale the outcome oi conspiracy
among line defendants Ia deiraud the shareholders u the
Paris and Decatur Railway Company, the CONSIDERATION
being the assumption by the Peoria, Atlanta and rca
tur Company of the bonded and floating ma l'dnrrs 81
the named company, which, II II alleged ~ IT, com
plainants was at the time entirely solvent