Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-27

The Star Route TriaIs-The Government
 Getting Up Its CAse-Other Matters.
 WASHINGTON, June 26.-Mr. IngersoQ re- sumed cross.examination of the sub contrac- tor, Anthony Joseph in the Star route trials this morning. Several letters from the sub- contractor to the Dorseys were read by Mr. IngersolI. Nearly all of them were appeals to have the service increased to six trips per
 week. The weight of mail is represented as excessive and the condition of the roads as extremely bad. He also complained that he was compelled to carry the accumulated mai of several other snow-bound routes without extra compensation. In one letter witness said that unless the number of trips was in creased so as to prevent the accumulation of
 mail to undue weight, he would be unable to
 make schedule time. Witness was positive that he had not circulated petition for 8 schedule of four miles an hour. The Territorial Legislature passed a resolution requesting an increase of service on this route, and while the witness believed he did not send a .copy of it to the Second Assistant Postmaster General he was not positive that he had not
 
 the equipment of the route and the condition of the country, but his direct testimony was generally sustained. Pedo Jaramillo, Mex jean sub contractor, was next called to the l stand He sad he had made 8 contract with | John w. Dorsey in the latter part of the year 1879 to carry the mail on the route from Oiocaliente to Parrott City. Owing to the excessive weight of the mail he had often I failed to make the trips on the schedule time l of fifty hours. The snow at times was up tc his breast on portions of the route. Hif l fines in one quarter had amounted to over \ four hundred dollars. For the quarter end \ ing June, 1S8O he had not received one cent | for compensation. Six men and twenty siz horses were used by the witness upon the route. After 8 squabble between counsel re earding the admissibility of this ev l idence 1t was ruled in by the court I The latest bulletin from the census office ! shows the number of males in the United | states over twenty one years to be IF, $50, | 349, of whom 8, 8,27O, 578 native and 3, l 072, ,497 of foreign birth. The number ot I colored men is 1887, 344 The number Of | farms is 38, 4O6; the number of establish ! ments manufacturing woolen goods 2,6S4 1 with $159, ,OO0, ,000 capital, employing 16O, ,0U( ! hands.
 The President and party have not yet re | turned, but are expected to arrive during tht I night or to morrow at the latest.
 The Jeannette Search-Further Particu | lars of the Finding of De Long ant His Men-Extrncts From De Long's Not Book.
 l WASHINGTON, June 26.-The Navy depart
 ment is in receipt of advices from Enginee 1 George w. Melville, dated Lena Delta, Marcl 9, 1882, in which he gives detailed accoun of his operations up to that date, and fu]
 particulars of the finding of the bodies of D
 Long and his comrades. He also forwards
 copy of the log book of Lieutenant De Long
 Melville says that after several unsuccessful
 attempts to follow De Long's track from tn
 northward he tried retracing Ninderman'
 track from the southward. On point O
 land at the junction of the Lena branches
 forming one of the banks of one of the riy
 CTS, he found where a large fire had bee
 made, and Ninderman recognized 1t as tn
 river down which he came. He turned tn point to go north, and about 100 yards fror