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Show TELEGRAPHIC CAPITAL C'HATTEtt. U'hiit the fo3itlelns and la-vesnautors la-vesnautors ure loluu. Io vestiunlton Statistics lor tiie Year. News Soles aud 'u.sUluirtun Wathiugtou, 12. The committee on commerce, of the senate, bus de-ferrtd de-ferrtd till Thursday consideration of Ihe New York custom house nomination nomina-tion a. The committee on ways and means, to-day, adopted a resolution inviting tbe seeretnry ol the treaamy uud other oQieittla to appear on Tuesday next with reference to duties upon euyr, and unpointed a sub corumittHH Gib-nuti,Phelua Gib-nuti,Phelua and Gdifif lit to collect in-furmatiun in-furmatiun on the stiujecl lor the full coruoiiuee. On the ti;iit day niter tho teaesembliug of congrefcti the! cummittee will hear all persons con ' , cerned in the question. j The Potter committee will meet on Tue&day next, utileBs the chairman tut-an time otherwiBe advisee. The bill accompanying the report of tbe joint committee on reorganization reorganiza-tion of the army, presented to the senate to-day by Burnaide, provided that general officers shall he reduced io fix, namely two cm-ior generla aod four brigadier generals, for permanent per-manent organization, instead ol eleven aa at present, the reduction to take place by casualties; alio ;hat the present orgtoizttion shall consist of not more than 25,000 men, exclusive of signal suldiers. I'lm bill provides for reduciug tho number ol artillery regiments to fivo, cavalry to eight aud inlantry to eigbteen. It aiso pro-posea pro-posea a reduouon of four offioura in tbe quartermaster's department, seventeen in the subsistence depart moot, and smaller reductions in nil other BluQ corps, except the engineers aud stguitl service, Tbe adjutant general's and inspector gtmeral's departments de-partments are consolidated, hut other stafl organizations are continued. Supernumerary Su-pernumerary officers are tn bs placed on the reserved list for three year1. The total reduction propjsed ia 333 ofliceia Chicago, 12. Tribune's Washington: Washing-ton: Tbe lime of the attorney general's leaving the cabinet is not deGoitely fixed. The announcement th.it he was to be appointed in the place of Judge Shipley has exci ed opposition in the Limine delegation, aud hub called out criticism in other directions, which is annoying to the attorney general, but neither form ot attack upon the selection will chauge the purpose of tho president. No successor to Judge Devens has yet been decided upon by tbe president. The name ol Frye, ot Maine, is prominent in connection with the matter. As to the statement that Hale is to enter the cabinet, his friends say he does not want the place. Hewitt, of New York, to day, ppeak-ing ppeak-ing of the intention of tuch leaders as Thurmau, in his party, to change their advocacy of greenback doctrines to an attack on national banks, aaid In; would make a epeech 4b tho subject of banks and would serve notice ou those democrais that if they persisted in their purpose they would lose the support of eastern democrats. Official returns made to the bureau of statistics show that during November Novem-ber there arrived at New York 5 852 immigrants, ot whom 3,604 were malee, aud 2,248 females. There also arrived during tbe month 3,033 passengers, pas-sengers, of whom 2,612 w-re t;it znns of the United States returning Irnm abroad, and 411 sjuurners, Durn g the same mouth a ''ear ago the arrivals ar-rivals at tbe port were 4 745 immigrants, immi-grants, 2,797 malen and 194 citizens of the United States, aud 222 sojourner. During the twelve niontbB ended November No-vember 30th, 1878, lbjre arrived at ports 81,255 immigrants, hguiuBt 60,111 for the coiTet-pouuing periud Ust year. |