The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-02-08

cold--colder than has been exper fenced here
for years Considerable snow has fallen, but
with two or three sunshiny days sach as the
last two will melt it away, and it IS hoped ere
the comm OF the inauguration day the
streets W i'll be dry aud cleaned for this grand
OCCASION" ---- '-''
The authorities, aided by its citizens and
the several Republican State Associations,
are active in making every necessary arrange
meat for the accommodation Of visitors at the
inaugural. Already proprietors OF hotels and
boarding houses have received letters from
the different parts of the country engaging
rooms. Each State Association has APP
pointed committee whose duties shall be to
engage quarters in advance for its citzens
who may come unprovided for
The Daily Chronicle of this cts seems de-
cidedly opposed to take for granted that SEN
ator Pomeroy has been using brides, and
suggests, ike the Boston Journal. ia, on
proper investigation, it may be found that
York. who aeknow lodged taking $4,000 on
Monday ard $4,000 on Tuesday, may not be
ready on Wednesday to cap4his in;quities
with gross falsehood, and that the fac. tn at
he gave up the money did not prove any
thing for those who are willing to use
money for such purposes " i'll be as likely to
use it in that way rs arg other, provided it
has the effect desired.
The Vice President, doubtless, could have
Robert 5. Hale, n. q elect from New York.
His reputation rs a lawyer is nnequsied..
Judge Poland to-day received note frcm
him stating that he did not wish to appear
before the committee until Mr.. Cakes Ames
returned from Mas sachusetts. There are all
kinds of rumors s1oat. The friends oil Amcs
say that the more Mr.. Colfax will try to get
ontiof it the tighter he will be fixed, and his
opponents say that the pretense Of Mr.
Ames that he was compelled TO go home to
raise $6eo, GOO is only dodge to gain time in
which t. manufacture evidence to sustain ais
case. At this juncture, when all is excite
ment, one hardly expects to obtain any reli,-
BILE information outside Of that adduced in
the committee
The Postal Telegraph bill now pending in
Congress is matter ct great importance to
the people AMI is receiving the earnest at;en-
ton of our legislators 10 Congress. The bill
will come Up for consi leratlon at an early
day, when it is to be hoped thatwe will be
in fair way to enjoy the blessings Of a
rapid means of communication with our
friends in all parts of the country at such
ure is Of course opposed by the Western
Union Telegraph Company who have their
agents and attorneys at Washington oppos-
ing with all their immense influence the Pos
tai Telegraph system. But friends of the
measure feel confident Ct its passage, know
ing full well that our represe natives in Com
gres cannot be blind to the immense benefits
they are comforting on their constituency by
advocating meas, re which at once sweeps
away monopoly OF that which is of so
! m nch importance to the public--the electric
telegraph. The Immense sums of money paid
to the Western Union Telegraph Company by
the public is shown BY the fact that in 1853
their capital was 1860, 700, in 1866 S2I, $780,
GOO. In these eight years it divided in stock
and cash s2i,457,7S6 on a capital of $780,
700. Its present capitals about Sal ,000, 900
The property of the Union Company has APP
preciated So ,o00,0 in four years, making
the average amount equal 10 fifty per cent. a
year. and in the face Of this enormous prof,
they ask for more. Its wires now occupy
more thnn nine-tenths of all the railroad
lines in the country and it does nineteenth
Of all the telegraph business. They dictate
the course of newspapers that take Their
news, snd il one is found criticising the com
psny, that paper Is cut off from receiving
the news. Its rates are high and arbitrary
Ttey rely upon small business AID large
profts, rather than low rates with large
business, which is good policy for the com
pany but hard on the public FIR instance
the rate from Washington to New York is Al
cents. distance 230 miles by postal tele-
graph, Is cents /; to Wiliiamspoit. rs cents
distance 200 miles by postal telegraph
% cents As this is fair sample Of thei
l3'CS ~ Ia ACCu1CSS w give uiuTc HEEToSs U&
policy Of the company now il to pay small
dividends, using its profits fer the construc-
ton of new lines, laying the Foundation 70
dividends in the future. Tie past and pres
ent policy of this company IS such as t,
leave no room for hore that the public viii
ever derive any benefit from its course. The,
will go on heaPing up fortunes from the ne
cessities of the people and become a powe
that the government itself may not he ahl
to overcome In view Of this we turn to tn
the post for the transmission of correspon
deBee. The bill has been recommended b
the committees of the House and Senate.
has been SO amended and perfected that al
Objectionable features have been entirel
overcome. puts money into the treasury
for the company is to pay the govcrnn en-
five cents postage on every message trans
mitted. In word the bill proposes to d
for the American people what European gov
ernments are doing for their subjects-givin
them a cheap telegraph. This is the poir
that most concerns us, and from an examins
ton of the bill it is found that we viii be er
abled to furnish our readers with the late,
telegraphic news up to the time of going
press, and they, instead Of waiting for slo
motion of the mail, can transact their impol
tant business by telegraph at rates which Al
not ike the present, almost prohibitory. l.
US. then, gentlemen in Congress, have ches
| telegraph. -
The changes IN life are strange. The 9th,
| day ap old man called at my Office to sole
subscriptions to the late Mr.. Stewards stol
of his travels around the world. In Il
course of the conversation that took pIa
! this aged peddler of books revealed the Ia
that he taught school here in Washngt,
over years ago and was the first to befriel
| the present Chief Jus tiee of the tInitad STA ts