Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-13
OUR OWN LAND.
THE CHINESE GRATEFUL TO
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.
Serious Railroad Wash
inSton Events-End of the
Texas Strike.

Texas Strike.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES To THE REcoRD-UEIoN.l
Postal Matters.
WASHINGTON, November 12th-Second
Assistant Postmaster General Knott has
submitted 20 the Postmaster General his
report of the operations of his bureau dur
ing the past fiscal year 1t appears that
the cost of mail transportation for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1885, was for 1891
star routes, aggregating 232, ,222 miles in
length, S5,454, o44; for mail messenger
service, supplying 5,335 offices, 1876, ,21S !;
for ll6 steamboat routes, aggregaiing II ,997
miles III length, 1858, ,002; for 1,G21 rail-
road routes, aggregating 12l ,032 miles in
length, as adjusted to September 30, 1885.
Sl4 753,495; for railroad pos;oifice car SER
vice, 81, ,S69, ,4SS-making a total Of S23, 49,
COG. As compared with the cost for The
year ended June 80, 1884, there is shown to
be an increase for star service of 642 routes,
5,443 miles in length and 1924 .SG3 in cost ;
for the mail messenger service, an increase
of 20 offices and OF SI5904 in the annual
cost; for steamboat service, a decrease of
one route of 3,004 miles in length, and
S33,5T in annual cost; for railroad service,
and increase o. IS routes of 1872 miles in
length, and of 81 ,615, $50 in annual cost.
The sum estimated as necessary TOR the
star service for the next fiscal year is
81, 5,S50000, slightly less than the appropria-
ton for the current year.
General E.aum Defends His Military
Record.
WAsHINGToN, November 12th-Generai
Raum has written the following letter to
the Second Comptroller, who recently dis
allowed an item of $3.50 IN the Generals
accOuAts:
see it stated in a morning paper that you
have rendered al decision to the effect that am
held indebted to the United States for an
amount alleged to have been overpaid me as
Brigadier-General of the United States Volun-
teers, and that the decision is based uTOl the
Supposition that | was absent from my com
maud without leave during n portion or all of
the time was granted the leave of absence l
was performing service as commander of the
Second Brigade, Third Division, under General
sherman When l came north | reported to
Hon. Z. NJ. Stanton, Secretary of War, for
orders, SO as to be able to return to said
command within the time limited by my leave
of absence, as General Sherman was then on his
South Carolina campaign. The Secretary of
War directed that wait at my home for orders,
and that he would promptly give me a new
assignment as Brigadier-General. This new in
by me in perfect confidence as to its validity As
soon as received orders reported to General
Hancock at Winchester, Va, and was immedi-
ately assigned a command. 1t never entered
my mind that I was in the least derelict in duty,
or absented myself from the service without aIl-
thority. | feel a great pride in the honorable
record of service made by me during the war,
and am unwilling to lie under an iInputation
of misconduct. | respectfully request reopen
ing OF your decision.
Missing Cinnamon.
WASHINGTON, November 12th.-The Col
lector OF Customs at San Francisco informs
the Treasury Department that a number of
Chinese laborers who landed at New ork
in June last in transit to San Francisco,
where they were to take the steamer for
China, have not been heard from since
their arrival in New York, and the sup
position is that they are concealed in this
country, and have no intention of leaving.
1t is said at the Navy Department that
there are no available means which can
be used to trace them.
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, November 18th. - The
President to-day APPOINTED George w.
Click Pension Agent at Topeka, Kansas.
The Postmaster-Gen to-day appointed
the following fourth-class Postmasters:
Wyoming, Sheridan, Benjamin +. Perkins:
Camp Hitachuca, Phillip f. Crovat.
The Japanese Postal Commission, accom-
panied by the japanese Minister, called at
the Postotfice Department to-day. Post
master General Villas being absent the dis
tinguished visitors were received by First
Assistant Postmaster-GeneralS Stevens, who
explained to them the American postal
system, and escorted them through the
various offices of the Department.
The President to-day made the following
appointments in the Navy: John J.
Hunker, Lieutenant Commander; Milton
X. Schwenk, Lieutenant. Junior grade.
The President to-day appointed Fred
erick f. Mansfield, of Texas, Secretary of
Legation at Japan.
In his annual report, Superintendent
Macdonald, of the Money Bureau.
says the gross amount Of fees re-
ceived by Postmasters from the public for
the issue of domestic money orders was
1920 $50.
The Civil Service Commission to-day di-
rected the Board Of Examiners at New
York 10 certificate to the Collector. in case
OF examination for weighers, the whole
number at once Of those found eligible for
appointment-some thirty persons-plac-
ing the disabled soldiers first, in the order
of their grades.
The Court-martial at Fort Myer, which
tried eighteen Signal Service men on
charges of insubOrdination, found all
guilty, and sentenced them to be publicly
reprimanded by the Chief Signal Officer.
Secretary Bayard has requested Secretary
Whitney 10 send man Of-war to the
Samoan Islands, for the purpose of open
ing up communication with that Govern
ment. The inhabitants are Christians,
mostly Presbyterians. The country is under
protection of the United States.
The Stanford University.
PHILA PHIA, November 12th.-The
telegraph has an editorial on Senator Stan
ford's muniiicent University endowment.
in which it says: - 1t rs more than double
the Girard College endowment and an en-
terprise of such enormous proportions can
not fail 10 profoundly impress the many
circles of intellectual life. Especially will
ii influence the growth of culture on the
Pacific coast, giving, unless the plans IA
tally miscarry, that new land Il more equal
relation TO the East than it has or than in
the natural course of events ii could secure
in many years. This more than princelv
endowment will give an income sufficient
TO support an institution of the Grade of
Harvard, Independent of fees from stu
dents. 1t may Prove nothing but dream,
but enthusiasm over the picture is rs ex-
crlsable as it is irresistible One eofthe surest
pledges of success is the fact that the Uni
versity is to be largely devoted to technical
New York Chinese Merchants and Presi-
dent Cleveland.
New YORK, November 12th-The Chi
nese merchants of this city have sent to
President Cleveland the following address
70 Ills Ercellcncy, the Hon. Grorer Clereland,
Presid ut ef the tpited States Of AHtcricd Al a
meeting of Chinese merchants ofthis city. held
on November 10, 1SSj the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted
After the many outrages that have been com
mitted upon our fellow-countryme in lawless
districts by desperate, ignorant and wicked
men, II gives US (the Chinese merchants of New
York; great and unSpeakable pleasure 10 learn
that the President of the United States and
the American people has issued an official
to protect our people, redress the
wrongs done 10 the injured, punish the male
factors, and prevent, by his great power the
OF the actions which have caused so
much suffering and DEATH We desire to ex-
press our gratitude and to thank the President
Tor his righteous course. his courage and love of
justice. We assure him that he has increased
our admiration and veneration for his fearless
ness and wisdom, and our respect and obedi-
ence to all his laws We also assure him re-
specttu'ly that ouz countrymen in the United
states endeavor to be good, peaceful honest
and law-abiding citizens and that they are al
ways anxious and eager to support the laws
and so promote that prosperity and peace which