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■i Colntnbu tumirer. VOL. XIX. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1877. NO. 147 WASHINGTON. ■USMIB AFFLIU TOM AM AP- POINTMENT nw A FRIEND. GOVERNOR HAMPTON. Bia VISIT TO ATTEED THE SHIELDS AMMITERSARY IE MEW YORK. sorts Carolina omaa—a C0S8ULSHII 1 DECLINED—:MISSION T9 SWITZERLAND RE DUCED — HAYES ABD OABIRIT APPROVES BKEbMAN's TREASURY VIEWS — CONSUL- SHIPS ALL FILLED EXCEPT THOSE DEPEND ENT ON FEES—FEW APPOINTMENTS. WHAT CAN HE DO. Washington, Jan* 30.— Packard ha* reaobed Chioago in aearoh of haalth. Bobnrz laid to Twtabell that than waa no vaotnoy in the Louisian* penaion agency. There to some iadignattosi that a man who bad loet both arma and waa feeble in other reapeota should not hare what he wants, bnt they aay: Wbat can ha do, ia more patent than “what haa he done." OBANT TO CHILDS—WHOM A BIOK& MAN THAR OLD OBAHT? Grant haa written a letter to Geo. W. Childs from London. It ia an elabora tion of the famona letter from Fitzhugbin Washington to hia friend in Texas. HATZB QONZ TO ANNAPOLIS. The President aaoompanied by Seoreta- riea Everts and Thompson and Postmaster General Key have gone to Annapolis to be present at the graduating exeroiaes of the naval aoademy. ABMX omozns TO CONSTANTINOPLE. Lieutenant Green, of the Engineer’s Corps, is detailed to report to the Ameri can Minister at St. Petersburg, and Lieut. Col. Chambers, of the 21st Itfantry, to report to the Amerioan Minister at Con stantinople. These officers will aot as military altaobeee to the Amerioan lega tions, and will undoubtedly go to the front and observe the operations of the hostile armies on the Danube. B1BOHXB DBBIBBS AN APPOINTMENT. Beeoher desires the retention of Mr. Freeman as Brooklyn Collector. Freeman supported Beeoher in hia Tilton sorape. NOBTH OABOLINA APPOINTMENTS. The Republicans of North Carolina are not harmonious. Major W. A. Smith,ex-member of Con gress, protests against the appointment of Hyman, Collector of Seoond North Carolina Distriot. Seoretary Sherman does not favoi Hyman, but his bond is good and the President seems to desire Hyman should qualify. Hyman is oolored and ex-member of Congress. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue desires the retention of Powers in North Carolina. DECLINES A CONSULSHIP. John L. Baily, of North Carolina, de clines the Consulship to St. Paul Delor- ando, Lower Guinea. MISSION TO SWITZEBLAND. A. H. Brown, of this oity, gets the Blaok Hills oontraot. It was supposed the appointment of young Fish to Switzerland would oloae the door to St. James against Hamilton Fish, but it is explained the mission to the Swiss Republio has been rednoed to a Charge d'Affairs. HATES APPBOVES SHEBMAN. Sherman’s views regarding tbs four per cents, principal and interest, it is said, is endorsed by the President and Cabinet. The Indian Bureau has information from Walla Walla, Idaho Agency, of the maasaore of 29 settlers by non-treaty In dians in that vioinity. At last aooounts tbs soldiers in pursuit were twelve hours behind. CONSUL TO LEEDS, The President to-day commissioned A. N. Dockery Consul to Leeds. This ap pointment Alls the last vaoanoy among the salaried consulates. NEABLT ALL CONSULSHIPS PILLED. Tbs only oonsnlates now vaoant area tew in Boutb America and on the African coast, whiob are paid by fees amounting annually to not more than two or three hundred dollar* per annum. Very few vaoanoies are likely to ooour In salaried oonsnlates between now and the assemb ling of Congress, and it is understood the intention of the State Department ia to All all such vaoanoies by promotion for merit and experience in the oonsular ser vice. CONSOLIDATED PENSION AOENCT. D. T. Boynton, the former pension agent at Knoxville, Tenn., has been des ignated as agent for the consolidated dis trict, composed of Virginia, West Vir ginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. He ha* reoeived full instructions from Com missioner Bently, and will proceed to the different agenoies and reoeive all the •took*, papers, and office property. declines intebpebence. Commissioner Baum declines to make any terms with the tobacco men who have tampered with revenue stamps, or in any way used them fraudulently. OOV. BOBINSON’S WELCOME—HIS ELOQUENT B1PLT. LOUISIANA. *X-BADIOAL AUDITOB PINED AND IMPRIS ONED. New Oblbans, Jane 20.—Ex-Stats Auditor Johnson was sentenced to a One ISO and imprisoned in the parish prison tan days ior refusing to prodaoo oertmio •looks and answer oertein questions as to their oontenta, propounded by the grand imy- Johnson says some of the missing doeomento are destroyed,end others taken 'when they were expecting an et- •aok by the White League in January. In * Petition to the court, Johnson aay* he •wld not answer the questions for fear of •Htoiaating himself. Aububn, N. Y., June 20.—Gov. Wade Hampton arrived this morning and was escorted to the Ross homestead. WELCOMED .OF OOVEBNOB BOBINSON. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Albany, N. Y., June 20.—Governor Robinson, in bis speeoh of weloome to Governor Hampton at the Shields' oele- bration.to-day, dwelt largely on the oontest in South Carolina in whioh the totter had taken so prominent a part. oovebnob Hampton's beplt. Governor Hampton, in the oourse of his speech in reply, said: Your distinguished Governor has been pleased to allude to the contest in South Carolina. That, my friends, was not a political straggle. It rose far higher than any suoh oontest ever waged on this con tinent. It was a oontest for civilization, for home rale, good government, for life itself. It was a oontest waged by the people of South Carolina, not as dema. gogues would tell you, agaiust Northern men. It was a oontest waged against car pet-baggers; and when I Bay carpet-bag ger, I mean by that thief. We do not oall any Northern man, any Irishman, any German, any Englishman, who settles in our midBt aa an honest oitizen a osrpet-bagger. We weloome such with open arms. We tell them to oome to our genial skies and fertile soil. Oome one and all, and I pledge them, in the name of the State, a hospitable, warm-hearted reception. We do not ask whether they are Republicans or Democrats. I want to impress this upon your minds, and will do it by illustration. What was done by tbe Democratic Legislature of South Carolina in almost its Arst aotion ? A vacancy ooourred in the Supreme Benoh of the State. A Chief Juatioe was to be elected. It was a place whioh had been Ailed by men of' the very lightest reputation in our Commonwealth. The names of honored sons of Carolina, who would have done honor to any benoh in any country were presented, but that Demooratio Legisla ture eleoted to the Supreme Court a citi zen of New York, who oame to the Stale as a soldier and who is a Republican. Wbat further proof do you want that we are not governed by prosoriptive feeling ? Does it not show that we have fulAlled pledges and ptomises mads through tho last canvass to make no distinction on aooount of raoe, color or party. We wanted to show you, people of the North, that we were aotuated by the highest and most patriotic feelings. We did not wage a political canvass. We were figbt- iog for every interest dear to free men, and thanks to the brave and true men and glorious women of Sontb Carolina, this war for good gov ernment waa successful. They have es tablished it in every department of the State government. They have accom plished this, and they now propose to ful- AU to the very letter the pledges I made and and appealed to the High Heaven to to witness (bat they should be carried out. I deolared that, if eleoted, I would be Governor of the whole people of South Carolina; that I should know no race or party, no oolor ; that all men who stood on the soil of South Carolina, native or foreign born, white or blaok, should be equal before tbe law, and, so help me God 1 it shall be done. I am glad to say tbe bitterness whioh marked that strife is passing away,and I say to you, men of New York, aa I say at home I owe my eleotion to the colored men of South Carolina. Thousands of them voted for me, knowing that I had been a good friend of the raoe, knowing that I was tbe Arst man after the war to recommend that they should be given the right of suffrage, and I have never yet changed my opinion on this snbjeot. Knowing this, they have sus tained me in large numbers, and I am happy to say that all tbe fears of the more ignorant are passing away, and they are satisAed they will be dealt with as citizens in all respects of South Carolina. We intend to try and elevate them, educate them and show them the responsibilities, as well as the blessings of liberty. We want them, as other oitizens of Amerioa and South Carolina, to be worth the great boon of oitizenship of this great Republic. My friends, I must again thank you for this most cordial greeting, doubly grati fying beoanse it is the voioe of New York, reverberating to South Carolina. I oame, as I said, to do honor to my distinguished friend, Gen. Shields. He wore tbe blue and I wore the grey ; but we can let tbe curtain drop over those years, and go baok to that time when that Aag,' borne by him, waved over the South and over the North, and we can look to the future wheu that Aag shall Aoatover a free, unit ed and prosperous people. [Applause ] I say this to you as a Southern man, a rebel, for when I fought I fought as hard aa I knew how against you, and I ssy also that if that Aag floats as it should do over free and equal States, if it shall be the symbol of liberty and equality and justice, all the States and every man of the South will honor it and love it aa of old, and the time may oome onoe more when New York and South Carolina shall stand shoulder to snoulder against the eommon enemy, and their blood mingle 'upon the aoil. [Applause.] My friends, I shall bear this eordial greeting baok home with as* to the Uttle Palmetto State, and assure our people that your hearts here throb kindly for us. I trust in God that a better future to be fore the whole oountry and that we shall have peace, prosperity and liberty to every man upon the continent. Ap- plaus.] TWEED'S STATEMENT. He Asks to be Released and His Condition. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] New Yobe, June 20.—John D. Town send, counsel of Wm. M. Tweed, in a let ter to Attorney General Fairchild, whioh will be published to-morrow, gives a sy nopsis of Tweed's statement, whioh waa seat to the Attorney General, and resent- ly returned by him, Tweed's offer to con fess and assist the State in the trials against the Ring Bpeoulators, having been rejected. The oontenta of the documents have been anticipated. Mr. Tweed as serts and is willing to swear that tbe facts set forth in the papers are true, exoept such as are stated upon information, and these he believes to be true and suaoeptible of corroboration. While oonflned in pris on, he is unable to produce suoh evidence as would be within his grasp, if permitted to be at Urge. He does not ask to have the indictments against him nolle prossed at this time, nor does ho ask that he should, at pres ent, be released from the judgment ob tained against him by the State of bIx million dollars. He only aaks that he be discharged from eriminal arrest upon his own reoognizanoe, and released from arresf upon the civil process which now bolds him. KXTBAOT FROM TWEED. He is now an old man, ia aufl'ering from a disease whioh bto imprisonment but aggravates, and he sadly needs rest from the mental strain to whioh he haB so long been subjected. From his former com panions in orime he feels himself isolated. Those whom he looked upon as his friends in hie palmy days, and for whose offences he has silently suffered have not only held themselves aloof from him, but some have beoome the' loudest in their dounuoistions of him. Mr. Tweed asks nothing farther from them. He will recognize no further claim that they make upon him for si- lonoc. Henceforth, if the people will so- oept him as their witness, Jdr. Tweed promises to do all that lies in his power to rectify the great wrongs ha has done. THE BELLIGERENTS. ■OVIUITI OF BOTH ABMIES DETAILED. RUSSIANS BUY THg PHILADELPHIA KBUPP OUM—THE TUBXIIH DEFEAT BEFOBE KAB8—MONTENEGRINS IN A BAD POSITION. INDIANS. Those III Idaho after Murdering 90 Willies Pretend So be Peaceful. Chicago, Jnue 20.—General Sheridan received the following dtopatoh from Ssn Francisco : The following telegram haa been re ceived from General Howard, dated Fort Lapivai,June 10th—The Indians of White Bird and Joseph's band murdered about twenty people in soattered settlements, fifty miles from here eastward. Captain Perry w.ith two companies made a foreed march there. The Indiana fled with freah horses. Hope to overtake them in cross ing tbe Salman river. Please notify Forts Hall, Shaw, Ellis and other eastern posts. Another band fled northward. They may oombine near Flat Head Agenoy, pretend ing to be peaceful. Fort Borne will head them if possible. Inspector Watkins and I act together. [Signed] McDowell, Major General. General Sheridan does not look for a general rising among these Indians, who have not been considered by the soldiers as Aghting Iudians. He believes that they will now attempt to make terms, and will not give the military farther trouble. STRIKE IN NEW JERSEY. THE WOMEN SALT AND PEPPEB AN OPERATIVE OPPOBINO IT. Pattebson, Jane 20.—There is great excitement among the silk faotory hands. Five or six hundred are now oat. The Hamil Mill haB shat down and several mills are withont hands. At the meeting of the striker! in Mili tary nail to-day Gnstave Heinrichs favor ed returning to work. The women at tacked him and tore his oost off, and threw salt sad pepper in bis eyes. He drew an empty revolver, bnt was chased ont of the hall and pursued half a mile, hundreds of persons joining in the obase. It having been reported that be had Bhot a woman, he was oaptnrad, taken be fore Justice Hatson and discharged. He made a complaint against the woman who assaulted him with salt and pepper. She was arrested and held to bffil in $f>00. The operatives are determined to stand Arm, so are the employers. The police ware called upon to protect the hands at work. Feeling rnna high. The general sentiment seems to be that the strike is ill advised. Nine-tenths of the hands are still at work. French Mull Steamer Loet. Special to Enquirer.Sun. 1 New Yobk, Jane 20.—A Paris dispatch says intelligence has reaobed there of the total loss of the French mail steamship Meiking, on voyage from Shanghai to Marseillea. Tbe crew and passengers were saved. roar Trampi Killed. Norbistown, Pa , Jnne 20.—Five tramps were sleeping in an old lime kiln. The walls fell, killing four. Tbe fifth will die. The snrvivor, who is from Mas sachusetts, thinks the companions, whose names be does not know, war* from New York and Maaaaohosett*. TUBEISH OHAMBEB ADJOURNED. Constantinople, Jane 20.—The Cham ber, after organising the oommitts* to sit daring the raoess and passing resolutions that the Government ought only to oon- olude peaoa on oonditiona whioh would maintain the honor of the Empire intaot, adjourned. TUBEs'oVEBWBELMnra MONTENEGRINS. Reports, official, sad others, taffieeie that the Turks are overwhelming the Montenegrins. TUBES DEFEAT RUSSIANS. Ftzli Pasha telegraphs from Sukumn kalet, June 14th, that thirteen thousand Russians, who oooupied Msxwikd and Tohamlohara, have been driven out by the Turkish troops, and the iron olada movemeut has been undertaken to out off their retreat. khxdive's oontinoent. London, June 20.—The Timet states that the contingent sent by the Khedive consists of 4,500 iufantry, 1,000 cavalry and 500 artillery. MONTENEOUIN DEFEAT BTBENOTHENINO BEB- VIA. St. Petersburg, June 20.—The Qalot says that the partial defeat of tbe Monte negrins strengthens and juatidaa the tend ency of Servia to join in the straggle. PBOBABLE AUSTRIAN OCCUPATION OF SSBVIA. London, Jane 20.—The Daily Tele graph's Vienna letter haa tbe following : Great uneasiness is felt here relative to the attitude of Servia. Everything is prepared for the occupation of Servia in war whioh a short t|me ago appeared poa aible to the Vienna Cabinet. STUFF—A BATTALLION OF BUSSIVNS SHOT FOB ATROCITIES. New Yobk,' June 20.—A osblo apeoial says the correspondent at Peru telegraph* that it is reported, that at the oaptnre of Ardahan, several Russian soldiers were guilty of atrocities upon the inhabitants, and that bouses were in a few inatanoes entered, men killed and women outraged. No sooner had these sots of lawlessness reaobed the ears of tbe Russian comman der than he ordeted the most vigilant in vestigation to be made. The oonie- quenoe waa the whole battalion to whioh the men belonged waa ordered out and shot. Montenegrin commander blamed. A Times' dispatch from Ostrok says tbe opiuioo iu the Montenegrin army is very stroDg against Vukovios, the leader to whom the defense of the Duga Pass waa entrusted. He isoharged with utter inoa- paoity. Some battalions reoeived no or ders whatever, and after the retreat from Kristaos all ooheBion of tbe army seemed lost. MOVEMENTS ON THE DANUBE. London, June 20.—From the Dannbean seat of war varions oorrespondenta report considerable activity on the part of the Russians, iu the seotion of oountry bounded on tbe east aDd west by the rivers Vede and Aluta respectively. They are eoneentrating atSlminilza,but tberiv- er immediately opposite that place has greatly overfiowed its banks. The prev alent opinion still seems to point to Nioa polis as the crossing plaoe. The Turks on the other side of the river are also mov ing troops active. PHILADELPHIA KBUPP OUN PURCHASED BY BUSSIA. , *■ St. Pbtebsbubo, Jane 20.—The Gazette states the Russian Government has pur chased the monster Krupp'gnn made for the Philadelphia exhibition. The dealt nation of the weapon ia nnknown. They talk of plaoing it npon soma vessel at Nekolaieff and using it against tbe Turk ish iron-olads in the Blaok 8ea. FRANCE. OOVEBNMENT ON DISROLUTION OF THE CHAM BIBS. Versailles, Jnne 20.—Dnke DeBroglie informed the Senatorial Committee on the dissolution eleotion proposal that at tbe election the Government wonld desig nate a candidate they favored, thns mak ing use of a right whioh np to the present haa been recognized by all governments. The Dnke also stated, if the Senate voted dissolntion, the Government wonld deoree it immediately. The Senate to summoned to meet again Wednesday. Debate on dissolution will oommenoest onoe and night sittings will be held if neoessary. DISSOLUTION BEGOMMRNDED. Vebsailles, Jnne 20.—In the Senate M. Depyre, member of the Right, read the report of tbe bnrean. It oonolnded in favor of a dissolution of tbs Chamber of Depntiea. Discussion of the report ia adjourned till to-morrow. POSTAL COMMISSION. ADHHI OF THE HON. «. «. HUIIBARD, CHAIRMAN OF THE POSTAL COMMISSION, DE LIVERED IN THE HALL OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES, AT RICHMOND, VA , JUNK 1ST, 1877. Large Uotleu lallare, London, June 20.—Tbs limes' finan cial article says tbe statement of tbe af fairs of Alexander Barclay A Co., Gothen burg, Sweden, bss been submitted to the creditors. The assets are 9950,000, lia bilities 91,340,000. Of tbe largest for eign oreditors three are in London and one in Liverpool. Their aggregate olaims amonnt to 9300,000. Difficulties of the Arm arose from ootton speonlation in 1875 and 1870. Weather. Washington, Jnne 20 — Indications— For South Atlantic States, stationary or lower preaanre, stationary temperature, variable winds, mostly from tbe waat, partly oloudy weather and occasional showers. Mayor Carrington introduced aa the Aral speaker Hon. Mr. Hubbard, oluir- mau of the Commission, who said: Ladies and Gentlemen:—Tbe Postal Commission, acting under an aot of Con gress, approved July It), 1876, and an amendment passed in March, was required to aaoertain and report to Congress wbat should be the proper compensation to bs paid by tbe United States Government for tbe transmission of the mails, whether by railroad, stage ooach, or on the water. The Commission, daring the past summer and winter, travelled over all the other aeotions of the oountry, contenting them selves with s bare visit of s day to one of the oities of the Sonth (Atlanta,) suppos ing that thereby they bed done their duty to tbe South. I am ashamed and sorry to make suoh a oonfeBsion as that, gentlemen. It only shows how little we know, and we think we fsirly represent the oitizens of the North in this respeot, of the wants of the Sontb, and to what an extent the Sonth had been negleoted in the distribution of tbe appropriation for the mail service. So little did we then realize the obliga tions of the North and. the General Gov ernment to the Bonth, that I trnst wo may be pardoned for onr omission in this re- apeot. But, thanks to the kindness of a gentleman we met at Atlanta — Mr. U. R. Bridgets, of WilmiDgton—we were in vited by him to travel through tbe South, and have, sinoe the 1st of April last, traveled along the ooast line as far as New Orleans; and then again, starting from Washington, have passed over the Air- Line to Atlanta; returning tlienoe by the Chattanooga and KennesAw route, stop ping at this ss the lust of the stations on onr journey throngh the Sonth. RICHMOND THE LEADING CITY OF TBE BOUTH. We stopped here tost beosuse we knew Riohmond was the leading oity of the Sonth, and that whatever views Riohmond may take npon the snbjeot whioh we have the honor to presoot, will reoeive the highest consideration throughout tho entire South, [Applause.] I stated that tbe dnties of tho Commis sion were to ascertain and report to Con gress whst was the proper compensation for tbe transmission of tbe mails. In order to know what appropriation will be re quired and how it ahonld be distributed, it ia neoeaaary that some priuoiplos be established whioh shall regulate and con trol tha Department in its dealings with tbe pnblie; or in other words, the best service that ocn be performed re 1 quires a higher oompensation than a slow and inferior servioe. The expenses of tha Department may be limited by its reoeipls, or they oity be based upon the wants of the pnblio; that to, Congress may ssy, Mr. Postmaster General, tell us wbat are the wants of tbe put lie for the best postal servise—what will be the ooat of suoh a servioe—and then we will make the ne- oesssry appropriations without regard to the reoeipts of the Department. OBOWTH OF THE BUSINESS. Here are two fundamental opposite principles which lie at the foundation of the whole system of the department: Shall it be self-sustaining, or shall it de pend npon the wants of tbe people? If it ia to be made self-sustaining all yon have to do is to stop any farther exten sion of yoar mail servioe, shnt np yonr postal oars, snd ssy that there shall be no further extension of “Star” aervioe, and you oan vary soon bring your expendi- ditnres below your reoeipts. Until the year 1845 the postal servioe was self-sus taining. From that time until tbe year 1851, there waa very little difference be. tween the receipts and expenditures. Daring that time there was little use for tbe mail servioe of the oountry, aDd post age was high—14] conts. In 1851 a great redaction of the rates of postage was made. You had oheap postage. Postage on newspapers was re dnoed in even greater ratio than the post age on letters, and the consequence was an immediate extension of the privilege of writing letters and sending newspapers all over tbe oountry, and the number of paoksges passing through the Post offloo Department in 1851 wore less than 100,- 000,000; at this day abOnt 1,400,000,000. It resulted as a necessary consequence upon this great reduetion that there was a great increase in oorrespondenoe, and tbe number of newspapers transmitted, and a corresponding increase of the ex penditures of the Post Office Department and these expenditnres soon rose to be tween seven and eight million dollars. Sinoe then we have known another peri od, whioh was in the years 1804 and 1805, when the whole of the South was ont off from the beneAts of the postal service from oanses to which we need not now allude. . Sinoe that time the servioe has increas ed all over the oountry, while the ratio between tbe expenses aod the receipts has been oontinually diminishing, and a year ago last July the expenses were re dnoed between one and two million dol lars, compared with the amount for the preceding year. If this to to go on, and tbe appropriations are to be rednoed year by year, then yonr servioe must be re- duoed also. FAST MAILS. As a oonaequenoe of this reduution in tha postal aervioe, what is called the Fast Mail, running from New York to Chioago, a distanoe of 1,000 miles, in 20 hours, and the limited mail from New York to St. Lonis, were at onoe cat off, and the pos tal aervioe between New York and Obioa- go to less to-day than it has been at any time daring tbe last Ave years. If you wish to rednee the expenditures, bringing them within the receipts, all you have to do is to out off tho service in those sec tions where there is the largest bslanoe of the expenditures over reoeipts. If, on the other hand, yon desire to have tbe servioe oo-extensive with the wan s of tbe people, then it will require additional appropriations and an increased deficiency to be paid out of the Treasary of the Uni ted States, bnt yon will have the best service tbe world has ever seeo. It is for Oongresa to deoide by whioh of these two principles the postal servioe is to be regulated. Shall it ho conducted by a reduction of expenaos and a reduo tion of servioe, or shall it bo regulated by the wants of tbe people ? The Com mission oannot say whioh plan will be adopted by Oongreas ; but they must pre sent to Congress the two phones of the oaae, and make recommendations adapt ed to wbiobtvar system may b* aaleoted. WHAT THR SOUTH HAB TO SAX. It is for the representatives of the Booth mainly to ssy whst plan shall be adopted, because they have reoeived less of the general Government, and have, therefore, the right to demand and expeet more. Allowing that yon will do as most people do—prefer that course whioh to to yonr interest—cannot obtain it by redn- oing the servioe in the North or West, it most be by increased appropriations. Assuming this, wa will next inquire how the railroads shall be compensated for the servioe they perform. railroad troubles. Mr. Hnbbard then referred to the un equal payments made to railways for aer vioe, snd expressed the opinion that there ought to be a reformation in that respeot, and payments fixed on a more equitable basis, and that the railways be allowed to appeal to a board of atbitera or supervi sor*. They had bean surprised at the geest liberality and ftanknese with which they had been met, espeoislly by the offi cers of the Southern railroads—some con fessing that they reoeived folly as mnoh as they did for other servioe to tbe publio. They thought too, that the Post-Master General ought to have increased authori ty over railroads carrying mails, to reme dy evils that now existed, ss in esses whore railroads refused to oarry mails, or to oarry them upon express trains. THE SOUTHERN ROUTES. Mr. Hubbard enumerates the four routes from New York to New Orleans— viz. -. By way of Pittsburg snd Louisville to Montgomery; seoond, Washington to Lynahbarg tlienoe over the Kennesaw route; third, the Piedmont route; fourth, the ooast line—Montgomery being the centreing point of the four lines—thenoe on a common road to New Orleans. The Louisville route, the longest of the four, to 260 miles longer than the Piedmont, the shortest. The Riohmond and Dan ville line have for nearly two years been obliged to delay their trains at Atlanta between three and four hours, beosuse they could not get them farther Souths having to wait until the trains on longer lines had reaobed the oommon point, Montgomery. Thns the passengers and mails most wait three or fonr hours until Louisville had brought her pssaengers down to Montgomery. The oommiaslon strived to obviate that delay, and have oommnnioa- ted with the managers of evory railroad from New York to New Orleans, and have been partially snceessful in their efforts. An experimental arrangement has been made with Gen. Tyler to take tbe mails from Montgomery at Hiioh an honr as will deliver them at New Orleans at 6:110 a. m., saving an ontire business day. He hoped that General Tyler wonld be sustained by Riohmond aud the Sonth. [Owing to re- fnsal of Mobile and New Orleans road to change their sohednle, the mail arrives in in New Orleans at the same hour *8 for merly.—Ed. Anv.] STAB SERVICE. He spoke next of the value of star ser vioe. By star servioe is meant transmis sion of msils on laud by any other means than rail. In this he said the Sonth ia lamentably deAoient, while other seotiona have more then their share. THE BEPOBT. Wheu our report to made to Congress, said Mr. Hubbard, the question to, shall it be a dead letter? Shall things go on ss for the past few years, with a limited servioe and reduced expenses, or will you sav that the mail service of the oountry shall be oo-extensivo with the wants of tho oountry? It is for yon, gentlemen—it is for the Representatives in Congress—to say whioh of theae two plans shall be adopted. BEUNION. We desire to do onr part towards bring ing again that era of good feeling and fellowship whioh ahonld prevail through out the land, and believe there is no other way so feasible as a prompt, rapid, and effloient mall servioe oonneoting all parts of tbe Union. We are greatly enoonraged in this work beaanse we have a Postmaster General who knows the wants of tbe Sonth better than any Northern man oonld know them. As a Republican from Massachusetts, I am glad and proud that we have in our Cabi net snoh a Democrat to represent this im portant Department of the Government, the only one that interests every man, woman, snd ohild in the land. Notional Hank of Missouri. St. Louis, Mo., Jane 20.—At the meet ing of tbe Board of Directors of the Na- tional Bank of the State of Missonri to day, a resolution was adopted that the ex amination of the oondition of the bank shows (bat reasonable profits oannot be expeoted from a oontinuanoe of its busi ness, and that the best interests of share holders and oreditors will be best subserv ed by plaoing the bank in the hands of s receiver, to bs appointed by tbe Comp troller of Currency, or that tha hank be placed in oourse of liquidation, as requir ed by the National Banking Aot; that in the meantime all payments of the bank bo suspended and the general business of tbe institntion oease. LATEIl—BANK A DEPOBITOn OF STATE FUNDS. St. Louis, June 2(1.—The board of di rectors of tbe National Bank of the State of Missonri held a long session this morn ing. Tbo result of the deliberations to not known. It is asserted a oonsiderable balk of the State’s funds was held by the bank. Tbe repository of the State is at St. </oaeph. It is believed the bank there divided the Slate deposits with other banks, of whiob the National Bank of tbe State of Missouri is one. Bishop of Iterormed Church. Episcopal New York, June 20.—The oonseorstion services of Btohop-eleot Thos. Hnbbard Gregg, were held to-dsy in the First Reformed Episcopal Cburob, 55th street snd Madison avenue. The ohuroh was crowded. Bishop Fallows, of New York, presided, and there wore present Bishop Nicholson, of Philadelphia, and Cheney, of Chioago, besides a large number of clergymen. Dr. Gregg waa vioar of East Harbor, Litchfield, Euglsnd, snd rep resented the New Church party in the Church of England. He has now joined the Reformed Episcopal Cburob, and will head the movement in England, and live in London. IE. A. LITTLE, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW, Offloe over J. A. Fraser’s hard war* store. fet>4 6m “MUSIC HATH CHARMS.” GILMORE’* BAND PLAYING TO THE INSANE PATIENT* ON THE. INLAND. Stran*e Herne* *n the Lawn as Lively, Sad and Solemn Music At ernated. From the N. Y. World, June ISth.] . Governor Robinson, with a large party of gentlemen ann ladies, left the pier at the foot of Twenty-sixth street yesterday morning at II o’olook, to make a visit to the islands, in charge of the Departments of Charities and Correction. At 1 p. m. the party landed on Blackwell's Island, where a innoh was served in the pavilion near l bo Charity Hospital. Arrangements had been made by Mr. P. S. Gilmore to give a oonoert to the insane patients on the island yesterday, and Mr. R. M. Hed- den, chief clerk of the Central Offioe of Charities and Correction, bad made full preparations for the reoeptlou of the band and the anoeeaafnl ordering of the con cert. Mr. Gilmore and the greater por tion of his band, who had volnnteered their servioes, landed on the island shortly after the arrival of tbe Goveinor’s party. They were aooompanied by many ladies and gentlemen, who desired to visit the patients and to observe the singular and touching effeot which masio always seems to have upon the minds of the insane. Tbe band, in ordinary citizen's dress, went Arst to the Charity Hospital, and played several subdued and plaintiff melo dies under the windows of the patients. All of the siok who were able to move thronged to tbe windowa and balcony,and listened with delight to “Way Down Upou the Swanee llibber,” “Old Folks at Home,” and the like, inauy lingering in the wiffilows after the band bad been obliged to leave the hospital and had gone on towards the work houses at tbe otbsr end of the island. The Governor's party, under the gnid- auoe of the commissioners of charities and correction, inspected the penitentiary and the other pnblio institutions. Some of the prisoners at work in the grounds ap peared outious in regard to the intrusion of tbe large party of visitors which atretobed in a broken line along the path from one end of the grounds to the other, but most went on stolidly with their appointed work. The hopeless drones appeared to be work ing for tbe most part among the lines of sprouting vegetables, and the length of time allowed by them to tbe extraction of every two-inch weed from the green sprouts must have delighted tbe heart of a condemned tramp. At tbe hospital where tbe insane women patients are treated the lawn had betiu prepared as a great audienoe room for the aonoert. A music stand had been erected, and benahes had been pisoed under tbe trees for tbe patients who could be trust ed to leave their rooms. Of the 1,400 patients in the hospital nearly 900 were Heated in divisions under the oliarge of tbe managing pbysioiana and the attend ants on tbe lawn abont the stand. Most of them wore tbe high brown linen dreas of the institution, bnt some of thorn were dressed in a livelier gown of striped bine and whits, aud others still in the ordinary dress which women of their oondition in life wear every day in the streets. The band took their plaaos at tbe masio stand, and tbe accompanying vis itors stood sboat or mingled with the patients in tbe aisle between tbe rows of seats. Tbe whole body of women were oxpeotant and perhaps a little impatient when tbe band oame np, bnt they were under perfeot control, aod Bat quietly on tbe grass or on tbe benohes while the in struments were tuned snd tbe baud was preparing to play. At the first wave of the oondnotor’s hand, however, a singu lar ohange oame over their listless faoes. Their eyes brightened; their wandering thoughts appeared to become Axed, and they bent forward, esgerly listening to the musio. Certainly Gilmore never had a more attentive or sympathetic audienoe. They followed closely every variation in the air or ohange in the tone, nodding their heads or beating time with their feet to the rythm. The overture to “Wil liam Tell” was played finely and heartily applauded. Tho brilliant gallop, “South ern Life,” set all their feet in motion, and many sprang up from tbe grasH, where they bad been seated, and danced vivao- ionsly by themselves, whirling abont in ecstasy oh tbe baud played faster and faster, while their eyeH fiushed and they tossed their arms in the gay excitement that possessed them. They made no at tempt, however, to move away from their plaaes, and the attendants did not inter fere, bnt waited nntil the patieuts threw themselves down again on the grass wheu the last strains of the wild gallop had died away. Then the sweet notes of “The Harp that onoe through Tara's Halls” Ailed the air, and in an instant the mnBio wrought a touching effeot npon the minds of the strange body. Their heads fell forward and they covered their eyes with their haods, many sobbing bitterly and moving their bodiea to and fro aa if in a passion of grief. Those who had danoed be fore seemed to be the most strongly affected, aud passed in a moment from tbo wildest gaiety to the opposite ex treme. It waH a Htrange sight to see this extraordinary audienoe swayed by a oom mon impulse, now lungbiug and olsppiug their bauds for joy, anil again oryiug like children, as the masio varied from gay to sad. The olarioneta struck up a lively pol ka,tbe “Golden Robin,” and in a few min- ntos all tears were dried. Bright faces were lifted up, and all were smiling, the memory of their former sorrow having entirely faded away. Tbe grand selection from the “Huguenots” stirred them most deeply perhaps, of anything that was played, and they listened, as if enraptured, to the blessings of the swords. While they were still oppressed by the solemn notes, the band began to play the “Mulli gan Guards” and tbe poor creatures fairly shrieked with laughter. They stood np on the benches oalling ont to one another and marking time with their hands and feet, dapping and laughing aa if they were escorting the veterans homo in tri nmpb. In this way tune after tone was played, varying from grave to gay inten tionally, and finally the oonoert of two hours wan brongnt to an end with “Auld Laug Syne.” Many of them cried bitterly when the instruments were put away, and the party who witnessed the singular oonoert were much affected. As the band began to move away numbers of the patieots came up to shake hands with them and to ex press their pleasure aod thanks. One who imsgiues herself tbe wife of ex-Preaident Grant was speoially affnoted, and thanked Mr. Gilmore repeatedly. The moat strik ing figure among the patients is s young woman who imagines herself a bride, and will not anffer a wreath of white finwera whioh she wears to be takes from her head. She stood up among the dancers and looked around as they dsnoed about htr, bnt she did not smile herself, though deeply affected by the sadder musio.
