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VOL. i. ALLIANCE .TALKS. NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS MEMBERS Reform Press Comment and Items of Interest to Allianccmen Everywhere. - It is sa;d that the independent vote in Kansas this year was larger by 15,000 ta m it was last year. * It will only take a change of 1,700 votes to give South Dakota to the Alli au c, and theii organ says that this can be done in a day. * sk * There is talk of buiiidng an Alliance tobacco factory at Greensboro, N. C. A meeting was held a few days ago and the idea discussed. T Andrew Jackson said that the national banking system should give them a . chance to make money scarce or plenty at pleasure. That is one reason you sold your cotton at 7 cents this fall. * * * The farmers should look after the in terests of their organizations. Upon them depends the success or the failure of the great reforms for which they are laboring.—Standard Farmer. * Jk sk In one of our exhanges we notice that a conespondent, ic giving his many reasons why lie is an Alliauceman, says for i ne, that he is opposed to men buy ing wind and calling it cotton, wheat, pork or tobacco. * 3k sk The farmer’s average net income, with which he must support his family and pay his taxes and interest, is $373. This estimate is hosed on figures given by the statistician of the agricultural depart ment. —Industrial Educator. =k 3k 3k The people’s party will continne to puncture the plutocratic money power with their ballots until the monsters will be forced to make a concession that will permit labor to receive its just re ward.—Washington Republican. * 3k 3k A higher range of legitimate prices is the salvation of the masses. Too much labor and products in the dollar now. Takes too much sweat to pay a dollar of interest, a dollar of taxes, a dollar of railroad charges.—lndustrial Educator.-. sk sk sk An exchange says: We j>ay annually about $525,000,000 tariff tax. We pay annually $1,400,000,000 in interest on bonds and otherwise for the money we use. Don’t it look like seven hundred and odd millions of Interest in excess of tariff tax ought to demand more atten tion than the tariff? * * ■k The Southern Mercury says (he mer chants of Texas are falling into line with the farmers and will aid them in every legitimate undertaking. The bus iness men now see that the success of the farmers means their success. The failure of the farmers means their failure and a general collapse. * sk sk An exchange says: The greatest need we can now think of is an active, effi cient and aggressive working force. To overcome the obstacles that wo are bouud to encounter in our onward march to victory will require a stronger effort than hus yet been put forth. We hope the very best talent of the organization will for the next few days be directed to the solution of the question of how to put efficient workers in the field. * 3k sk The Progressive Farmer says: We had hoped that the old chestnut about “Does farming pay?” had been forever disposed of. Butwe-see that the newspapers have taken it up again. We have been be tween the plow handles long enough to answer the question. It don’t pay the farmers, the merchants, the mechanics. But it docs pay the crop speculators, the railroads, the bankers and the politicians. It is making millionaires out of many of them. * * 3k At a recent meeting of the Pasco county Florida, alliance at San Antonio, a resolution was adopted asking the county commissioners to moke an appro priation for an exhibit at the World’s fair. A committee of three was also appointed to appear in behalf of the alliancemeu of the county before the county commissioners in behalf of the World’s fair matter. This sentiment among the alliancemen has been largely worked up by the constant agitation of the necessity by the Florida press. * * sk The Alliance Farmer says: “We are now getting the true election returns from the western states, and they are in deed encouraging. The Alliance has gained strength everywhere. The returns published in the daily papers were lies made out of whole cloth. The alliance vote (hows an increase in nearly every ebunty. In South Dakota the alliance cut down a republican majority of 50,000 to less than 2,000? And yet a partisan press says the farmers’ movemeit is dead.” * * * * NATIONAL OFFICERS. President—L. L. Polk, North Caro lina. Address, 344 D. St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Vice President—B. 11. Clover, Cam bridge, Kansas. Secretary-Treasurer—J. 11. Turner, Georgia. Address, 239 North Capitol St., N. W., Washington, D. O. Lecturer—J. 11. Willetts; Kansas. Executive Board—C. W Macune. Washington, D. C. Alonzo Wardall, Huron, South Dakota; J. F. Tillman. Palmetto. Tennessee. / . • -wf "* . Judiciary—H. C. Demming, Chirman; Isae McCracken, Ozone, Ark.; A. E. Cole, Fowlervillc, Mich. NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. The presidents of all the State organi zations with L. L. Polk, Ex-officio Chair man. 3k Jk 3k THE PARTY. Under the above heading the Progres sive Farmer says: “It is all right for men to be patriotic, take interest in their party, to defend it if it is worthy of it. But there is an end to such things. The farmer who will work himself, makes his wife and children work to raise a crop of cotton or tobacco and sell it at prices that these products are now bringing, or who knows what a crisis the country is now passing thro igh, and still not stir himself to seek a remedy or aid those who are earnestly striving to effect this end, is no man at all. Many sit down and say, “Oh! if you will vote for my party aad work for it all will be weii.” But unless these parties have a p’an to bring relief and reform what can you ex pect? Don’t be satisfied wiih a party that has nothing to bring reform. Make your party what it ought to be, - or make it surrender its charter. ” *** RAVE GOOD ALLIANCE LITERATURE. The Alliance Farmer (Atlanta, Ga.,) says: If our members will read Alliance literature, they will find an antidote for the poison scattered broadcast by the partisan press in the way of lies against our order and its leaders. You may take the best Christian in Georgia, deprive him of his Bible, and let him read noth ing but Tom Payne, Voltaire and other works of infidelity, and you will even tually undermine his faith in the Gospel. It is the same way with the Alliance. If our members read papers which stigma tize the order, they will soon be convinced that the Farmers’ Alliance movement was conceived by sin and brought forth in iniquity. Let them take a counteractant in the form of some good alliance paper, and read the answers to these slanders against our organization, and they will then discover that this bit ter and venomous fight against the alli ance is waged in the interest of the pluto crats, in order to crush the movement of the laboring people for freedom and pros perity ; that the partisan press of Georgia are but the tools of Wall street, and used as an instrument to crush and enslave the toiling masses. T 3k * MORE MONEY. The Faulkner county Wheel saya; A. farmer takes fi%o bales of cotton to mar ket. He is offered 8 cents, which amounts to S2OO. He thinks he ought to get 9 Cents for it, so he puts it in the govern ment warehouse and borrows $l6O for one year, if he needs it that long, at 1 per cent. He insures it at the rate of J of 1 per cent, per month and the storage is 1J cents per month. The S2OO the merchant had to give for the cotton was already in circulation. The $l6O bor rowed of the government was added to the circulation aud increased the circu lation SI6C. Some party papers say that the storing of the cotton and drawing money of the government contracts the currency. We make this statement to (•how that they are wilfully ms king false statements to their readers. The storag* of cotton prevents speculators from manipulating the market. In three months the mills begin to want cotton. The farmers demand a Lfir price and say we will hold our cotton for one year and stop your mills unless we can get 10 cents for middling cotton. The mills say well that is nearly a9 cheap as we ever get it, and they take the cotton a* 10 cen's. The farmer gets $250 for his five bales of cotton. He pays $1.12£ for storage and $1.50 for in surance and SI.OQ for interest, loss in weight per bale $3.20 (what he was of fered). In all $8.025. Gam SSO, Net gain to the farmer on five bales $41.97J, or $8.30$ per bale. This is a fair state ment. Middling cotton is cheap at ten cents. The man that can make money at less than ten cents per pound by his own labor does not live. To make a fair profit for his labor, middling cotton should be 12$ cents, and w T hen the Peo ple’s Party gets into power, they will see to it that the law's are so that the pro ducers who feed and support the world are paid a fair price for their labor. * 3k 3(c THE ELECTION IN KANSAS. Apropos of the oft published statement that the Alliance has fallen off in mem bership the past year from 140,000 to 60,000, the Topeka Advance says of the late elections in Kansas: “We have made a large actual gain in our vote over that of last year. In a few counties the actual vote is less than last year, but fully equal to it in comparison with the total vote cast. Taking into consideration the diminished total vote in those counties,it will be found that we havo retained onr full per cent, of it and in many-instances more than this. Of course all apparent losses are seized with the greatest avidity by the opposition press wherever they oc cur; and without making any analysis of the vote, or instituting any compar isons to determine how our per cent, of loss corresponds with the decreased per cent, of the total vote, such apparent loss, insignificant though it may be, is paraded under flaming head-lines as an infallible indication of the total disinte gration and utter annihilation of the People’s party in Kansas. Rational peo ple recognize in all this bluster and crow ing of political roosters the whistle of cowards approaching a political graveyard in which their polluted carcasses will soon be buried in oblivion. Placing the most conservative estimate upon the re sults of the election, it may be regarded as absolutely certain that, in this “off year” in politics, without any systematic campaign such as we conducted last year, rpljing solely upon the educational work cf the past, unu the limited ioca. TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4,1891. campaigns conducted by the several counties, and in the face of a campaign against us seldom surpassed even in a presidential year, we have still fully held our own in the aggregate, while our per cent, has unquestionably been largely in creased. We are of the opinion also that not only our per cent., but our aci tual vote cast wilFbe found larger in the aggrega’e than it was last year. ' * * * THE PRINCIPLE OF THE SUB-TREASURY DEFENDED. Govenor Sylvester Pennoyer, of Orer gon, contributes an interesting and able argument in the last number of The North American Review in defense of the Alliance principle of governmenj loans to the people. Some of his best points arc contained in tho following ex tracts : Thu mutteriugsof discontent, although heretofore disregarded, have been uni versal. They could find no expression in the platform of any existing politicial party, and therefore have been contemned as well as unheeded. These m tteiings have at length found voice anew political organization, and their loDg pent up expression will undoubtedly be the great slogan of the coming presiden tial contest. Hence it is of the most vital concern to the party itself, as well ns to tho people whoso inffreus it would subserve, that its financial policy should be one that can be defended upon the grounds of justice, of public necessity and of business prip ciples. If such a policy can be formu lated the young stripling of a party will win to its following the honest hearted yeomanry of the whole country, and may achieve a political victory unrivaled in t iis country for more than a half century pist. In ihe first place, therefore, the currency which is proposed to be issued shon’d be based upon a perfectly secure and imperishable foundation, anil should be a legal tender for all debts, public and p ivatj. Such a basis can only bo furnished by the real property of the country. To accept personal secu rity, or any ether security than the improved real property of the covin, (rv, would be to hazard the loan, which the government, in the interest of the whole people, poor as well as rich, can not elo. There can be no safer security for a, government loan than the real property of the nation. If the loan is placed upon such property at one half or one third of its real value, it is as secure as the government itself, and the cur rency based upon such a loan is as good as a government bond or gold or silver. The main argument agn : nst such a policy is has and upon its supposed im practicability. This has been answered by stubborn facts. The next question of importance evolved by the proposed financial system is: How shad the money be procured by the government for making such a loau. If required it could and would be pro cured as it was in order to carry on the late war, but the amount to be provided would to a great extent depend upon the exact conditions of the fiscal policy to be established. If the loans were made to the people upon unimproved real property at a rate not exceeding 4 per cent., and the cur’ rency for su li loans, as well ns gold and silver, was changeable at will into gov ernment treasury notes or bonds bearing interest not exceeding 3 per cent., the result would undoubtedly be that the is suance of not nearly so much currency would be required as would be if no such provision for funding it was made, inas much as investors in government securi ties would largely furnish the required amount. If a policy be adopted of changing the currency into bonds and the bonds into currency, at the will of the holder of either, under the necessary restrictions, the whole financial business of the coun try could be adjusted to the proposed system without any greater enlargement of the volume of the currency of the country than its actual business" require ments demand. Such a policy would place the currency of the nation upon the safest foundation possible, and would entirely preclude those extremes of con traction and expansion so hurtful to business interests; for if there should be in circulation more money than could be advantageously used it would Beek in vestment in government securities, while, if there should be an urgent need for more, the bonds would be changed into currency. The loaning of money by the govern ment at 4 per cent, would at once fix that rate throughout the country without any other or further legislation, and the capi tal now employed at ruinous rates of in terest as leeches upon the people, thereby exhausting the life-blood from all of our industrial pursuits, would, by the condi tions confronting it, be invested to a large extent in government eccurities, thereby furnishing a portion of the cur rency required, or, if not so invested, it would be compelled to seek out new en terprises for its employment. Thus the accumulated wealth of our plethoric capitalists, now overburdening our na tional industries with its ruinous exac tions, checked in its unlicensed power, would patiently and effectively subserve the commbn Veal. THE PRESIDENT WENT WRONG. He Misappropriates $300,000 of the Company’s Funds. The board of directors of the Standard Gas oompany, of New York City,met Fri day in secret session to consider the case of the former president of the company, Wallace C. A. Andrews, charged with haring misappropriated $300,000 worih of the common stock of the company. Ne gotiations were attempted looking to the settlement of the matter outside of the courts; the directors being willing to ac cept $2,000,000, but this Andrews re fused to give. THROUGH DIXIE. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED Forming an Epitome of Dally Happenings Here and There. ! A. H. Hews A Co’s pottery works, North Cambridge. Miss., burned Tues day. W. T. Dey, stoves aud furniture, Nor folk, Ya., assigned Monday. Liabilities, 58,500. Knoxville and Morristown, Tenn., suffered from fire Sunday. The former sustained a loss of $ 13,000; the latter $20,000. Citizens of Harriman, Tenn., held a meeting Monday and made arrangements looking to the securing of the next na tional prohibition convention. A cablegram of Tuesday says: Sit Alexander Campbell, lieu cnant governor of Oatnrio, Canada, has been stricken by paralysis and is in a critical condition. Tho debt statement issued from Wash ington Tuesday shows a net decrease in interest bearing and nou-inferest bearing bonded debt during November of $2,- 570,139.50. George 11. Brasfield, one of the most noted of the old-time trotting horse drivers, died ot Lexington, Ky., Friday .evening. Among the noted horses he drove was Great Director in 2.115. He was formerly owuer of this horse. Sales of loose leaf tobacco in the Dan ville, Va., market during November reached 2,307,600 pounds and for two months of the tobacco year 4,659,865 pounds, showing a decrease as compared with the same months of 1890 of 8,380,- 320 pounds. The Uuiversity of Virginia and Trinity College, North Carolina, football clubs played n highly exciting game at Rich mond Saturday before a large crowd for the championship of the south. The North Carolina team defeated the Vir ginia boys. Score: 20 to 0. A St. Louis, Mo., dispatch of Tuesday says: It has just been discovered by the Concordia Publishing Company, prin ters of religious books, that Martin C. Barthel and Martin H. Barthel, father and son, two of its most trusted em ployes, are short in their accounts. A dispatch from Frankfort, Kv., saya that Miss McErvan, who was shot by a ■ iiegro last October while on an excursion train on the LouhiJillG and Nashville railroad and was permanently injured, obtained-a verdffct Saturday for SIB,OOO damages against the railroad company. The Anniston, Ala., city council, at a meeting Friday abolished sev eral city offices and aismissed a number of employes, thereby reducing t& city’s expenses $250 a month. Their aCtion in abolishing the offices has been pretty condemned by the citizens of Anniston. A Raleigh dispatch says: The failure of the First National bank, at Wilming ton, caused the assignment of John L. Boatwright, grocer, of that city, for the benefit of his creditors. Bank Examiner Allen is now in charge of the suspended bank and Daniel L. Russell, of Wilming ton, will become its receiver. John Pizzini, an old journalist, for many years agent of the New York Asso ciated Press, who was paralyzed in July, 1888, died at Richmond, Va., Friday night, aged fifty-nine years. Pizzini was affone time resident vice consul of Italy. He was a gallant confederate soldier, being a member of the First Virginia regiment. The extensive planing mills of the Hope Mills Lumber Company, in Cleve land county, near Fayettsville, N. C., were burned Friday, This loss is over ten thousand dollars and there is no in surance. The flour and sawmills of Als paughßros., on Little river, Alexander county, were also burned. The loss in the latter case is $3,000, with no insur ance. News reached Raleigh Saturday of the smash in the building and loan associa tion which had banking privileges and $50,000 capital. It was established ten years ago, aud its business methods were not very able in character. D. B. Nich olson is cashier, having early this year succeeded W. A. Johnson, who is said to ,be the largest stockholder. The failure will probably annoy some merchants there. President Conrad, Secretary Horner and eight employes of the Louisiana State Lottery Company appeared before United States Commissioner Wright at New Orleans,Monday morning, to answer an indictment found against them at San Antonio, Tex., upon the charge of vio lating the anti-lottery postal law. They gave bail in the sura of SI,OOO each to appear at the next term of the United States court in San Antonio. A number of the leading wholesale grocers of the four large cities in Ten uessee met at Nashville Saturday for the j purpose of correcting existing abuses in i the trade, although they declined to state the nature of these abuses. Among those present were representatives of all the leading firms in Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville and Chattanooga. The or ganization i3 to be known as the South ern Wholesale Grocers’ Association. Passenger train No. 9, due at Charlotte, N. C., at 2 Soturdry morning from Washington, narrowly escaped be ing wrecked by a telegraph pole that was placed on a trestle. Two country men who the situation, flagged down the train ana the engine stopped within thirty feet of the obstruction. The scene of this attempted train-wrecking was at trestle over Haw river, between Greens boro and Reidsville. Dacus & Jordan, general merchants of Greenville, S. C,, who have been run ning what was known as the alliance store, made an assignment Satur day night. They have been pressed by their creditors for several weeks and a few days ago effected a compromise with some of them, agreeing to pay 50 per ceut of their claims by December Ist. As that date drew near they realized that it would be impossible for them to com ply with their agreement, so they made the assignment. The liabilities are about thirty-five thousand dollars and the t ssets are estimated to be about the same. A Birmingham, Ala., disnatch says: An extensive thieving uracfice on nie Alabama Mineral division of the Louis* ville and Nashville railway was broken up Saturday afternoon. Conductor Ward was arrested at Calera for embezzling $125, which he had gobbled on freight betwe n small stations where prepayment was required. Depot Agent F. W. Andy, at Sheltiy, who was connected with Ward, aud who had pocketed over eight hun dred dollars, skipped out in time to avoid arrest. Ward also escaped while he was under guard at Calera. The embezzlement had been proceeding for some time, and other developments are expected. RAILROADS OF THE COUNTRY. m Statistics Showing Gigantic Strides in Construction and Traffic. The third annual report on “statistics of the railways in the United States,” issued from the office of statistician of the interstate commission at Washington, gives comprehensive statistics covering the operations of railways during the fis cal year ended June 30, 1890, and a state ment of earnings and expenses for nine months ended March 30, 1891. A marked feature of this report, which adds greatly to the value of its statistics, is the map ping and division of all statistics in ten territorial groups, by which differences in conditions of operation iu various parts of the eountrv aro clearly brought to no tice. Comparisons rendered possible by this report show marked differences in different parts of the country. MILKS OF RAILS. The railway mileage in the United States on June 30, 1890, was 163,597 miles; increase in railway mileirgu brought into operation during the year, was 6,060 miles. Michigan shows -the largest in crease in railway mileage during the fiscal year, being 459 miles, and Georgia come3 next with increased mileage of 437 miles. Group five, made up of Ken tucky, Te-Unessce t Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida*?£ows. i increased mileage of 1,370 mill s during tbc year. The number of railway corporations on June 30, 1890, was 1,707, of w'bich 927 are operating companies, twenty-two companies representing 1,646 miles, have been re-organized during the year, a”d thirty-four companies, representing 1,905 miles, have merged their corporation ex istence into the other corporations. The gross income of seventy-four com panies is $837,000,000 out of a total cross income of all the railways in the country of $1,041,877,632, or 80 per cent. The total number of locomotives in used is 29,928, of which 8,384 are passenger locomotives and 16,140 are freight locomotives. This shows ten freight locomotives and five passenger locomotives for edch 100 miles of opera ted line. The number of cars used in railways of the United States is- 1,164,- 138 or 744 per 100 miles. THE ARMY OF EMPLOYES. The total number of men employed is 749,301, being an increase of 45,551 over the number employed in 1889. The 154,- 404.06 miles of line which are made the basis of statistics in this report aro rep resented by railway capital to the amount of $9,459,444,172, equivalent to $60,481 per mile. Assuming that the remaining mileage is capitalized at the same rate the total capitalization of railway prop erty in the United States would be $9,894,483,409. The increase in railway capital for 1890 over the railway capital for the previous year is $444,268,798. Of this amount at least is due to the increase in capitalization on lines already in existence. The number of passengers carried dur ing the year was 402,430,865. The ag gregate number of miles traveled by all passengers, was 11,847,785,617, or an. average journey of twenty-four miles. The number of tons of freight carried during the year, covered by the report, was 636,141,617. CASUALTIES. The total number of persons reported by railways as killed during the year was 6,320, p.nd the total number reported as injured was 29,034. Of the total num ber killed 4,451 were employes, 285 passengers and 3,584 were classed as “other personsln this latter figure are included a large number of suicides. Of the total number injured, 22,390 were employes, 2,444 passengers, besides 4,200 unclassified. If the number of em ployes killed be assigned to the total number, it appears that one death occurs for every 306 men employed on tfce rail ways, and one injury occurs for every thirty-three men employed. The largest number of casualties occur to men en gaged directly in handling trains. Thus, while the trainmen represent but 18 per cent of the total number of employes, the casualties sustained by them account for 58 per cent of the total casualties. A passenger riding continuously, at the rate of thirty miles an hour, might ex pect immunity from death by railway ac cident for 1,700 years; but ah engineer, brakemhn'br conductor, under the same conditions, is liable to fatal accident at the expiration of forty years. The report recommends that express companies, water transportation com panies and rolling stock and terminal companies be required to furnish railway 1 statistics to the commission. NO 32 THE WIDE WORLD. 1 r . . - V’ • ft T *r • - X—: : - . . ‘ f GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLINGS Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. Shocks of earthquake were felt in Tacoma, Wash., Monday. Tiie new issue of Windom $2 silver certificates began Tuesday. Dispatches of Monday state that yel low fever at Santos • rapidly spreading. Small pox, according to Monday’s dispatches, is again epidemic in Guate mala and Honduras. James Wyman, mayor of Allegheny, Pn., was arrested Sunday, charged with embezzling funds of the city. Fire at Gladstone, Minn., Monday, destroyed two flour sheds, a coal dock aud au ore dpek. Loss, $70,000. A fire Sunday morning in the wood de partment of Joy & Seliger’s plush and novelty goods company, Newark, N. J., did damage to the extent of $30,000. Quartermaster Sergeant SeiverS, of the Savannah German Volunteers, was on Sunday stricken with paralysis on one side. It is feared he will not recover. A cablegram of Monday states that the Chinese government is taking every precaution to break the strength of the rebels before they get within striking distauce of the capital. * A span of the Great Northern railroad bridge over the north fork of the Colum bia river, six miles from Columbia Falls, fell last Sunday, carrying with it bine men, three of whom are dead. A Santiago correspondent of The Lon don Times says that the people of the province of Rio Grande de Sul think,the changes arising from the deposition of Marshal Da Fonseca are not radical enough, and new complications are feared. A Washington dispatch says: The Chinese embassy called on Uncle Jerry Rusk, at the agricultural department Monday, and requested Secretary Rusk to procure for them several tons of sea is land and staple cotton seed. It is the intention of the Chinese to raise cotton iu the celestial empire. A dispatch of Tuesday from AnnistoD, Ala., says: A charter has been obtained* by the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Loan Association with an authorized capital stock of $1,090,000, divided into shares at the par value of SSO each. The object bf the association will be to loan money to farmers and mechanics. Anew York dispatch of Saturday says: The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 4,030,617 bales, of which 3,461,- 817 are American, against 2,937,677 and 2,464,777 'respectively last year. The receipts of cotton for this week at all interior towns aro 810,434; at planta tions, 347,801. The crop in sight is 4,- 576,379. A Washington dispatch of Saturday says: Admiral Brown’s report upon the circumstances attending the landing of the Chilean troops at Quinteros last sum mer has reached the nav/ department. In substance it is a positive denial of the,- allegation that his visit to Quinteroj), sed to the Balmaceda forces securing' infor mation of the congressional movement. , A dispatch was received at London Saturday from Valparaiso saying the American -ship Rappahannock, Captain Dickinson, which sailed from Liverpool, July 29th, for Sin Francisco, has been burned at sea. The crew of the Rappa hannock landed at Juan Fernandez is land, .about four hundred miles off the coast of Chile, and were subseqnently brought to Valparaiso. The fastest time ever made by a rail-. road train between New York and Wash ington was accomplished Saturday by a special train over the Pennsylvania rail road, tendered'to a party of hotel pro prietors, theatrical managers and news paper representatives. The train left New York aj 5:49 o’clock p. m., and stopped in the station in Washington city at 7 o’clock p. m. Exports of speice from the port of New York for weeks ended November 27th, amounted to $931,155, of which $27,891 was gold and $855,261 silver. Of tho total exports $27,394 in gold and $835,- 393 in silver, went to Europe, and $48,- 500 in gold and $19,863 in silver, to South American points. Imports of spe cie during the week amounted to $593. 769, of which $533,172 was gold and $00,597 silver. A St. Petersburg dispatch of Sunday says: The imperial family have started from Crimea on their return journey to that city. Crowds of ragged and starv ing peasants wait at the stations along the route to present petitions to the czar, imploring help. The gendarmes are un able to prevent the people from as sembling. Reports from some of the famine-stricken piovinccs say that the peasants are burning the hay and straw of their landlords. COLD IN THE NORTHWEST. The Thermometer Crawls Down Twen ty Below Zero. A Rochester,Si. I'., dispatch of Sat urday says: Snow is falling throughout this region, and is now six inches deep. Dispatches from fifty Minnesota points indicate that temperatures vary from zero at Duluth to ten degrees below at Hallock, and eighteen degrees at Moor head. Ti.e ferries at Duluth and Supe rior have frozen up, and it is believed that navigation by the lake(eatuioffV last many days lquger. b Continue i ebld -weather is predicted .by the signal service. At Winnipejj- the mercury v is 20 degrees below zero at midnight .Saturday and it was constantly grQvyincj colder.