Show so no hurry about havana there seems to be a disposition dispo stion among the military authorities to permit captain general blanco to remain at havana and fortify himself as much as he be likes it la Is evident they have concluded to starve him out or at least to allow him to remain undisturbed until everything else ehe in sight has been captured and put under the united states nag flag it la Is argued that the capture of havn havana ai would cost an enormous sacrifice sak ri of life and require a siege of long lona duration that would expose our sold lera M to a most unwholesome and dangerous climate while so long as general blanco keeps his soldiers within the fortifications of the rity city they are quite as harmless as if they had never come to cuba at all while it is impossible to obtain any definite information from the war board those who are in the habit of talking with the president on these subjects believe that our fleets are more likely to attack cadiz than havana if the spaniards do not surrender when puerto rico klco falls among the many expenses torne tome by 07 railroad companies the ice bill figures quite prominently for instance on the baltimore and ohio railroad it to Is expected it will take over tons of ice this year to meet the requirements of the service the greater portion is used in connection with shipment of perishable goods the balance in the passenger train service A great deal of this ice is put up by the company in its own ice houses but as the past winter has been so warm a very large proportion win will have to be apu ipu purchased the conference committee on the sundry gundry civil appropriation bill has effectually settled the dispute in the bureau of engraving and printing over the use of steam presses and has inserted in the law a provision that all bonds notes checks etc shall be printed by hand this is a triumph for the labor organizations that have been fighting against the introduction of steam presses and laborsaving labor savin saving machinery in the printing establishments of the government for several years |