The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-11-19
The third assistant postmaster gen.

The third assistant postmaster gen.
eral, in his annual report, estimates the pro-
portion Of washed stamps used again in pay
ment OF postage at 5 per cent OF the value y
Of all stamps sold each year, causing All an i
nual loss of million dollars to the revenues
OF the department.
Postmaster General Jewell emphati-
cally dsclaims intending to recommend any
increase in the present rates OF postage oh
the contrary, he thinks postage shouid.p re-
duced whenever it should be found possible
to materially diminish the expenditures Tor
carrying the mails, without depriVlh8 the pun
lie OF existing facilities.
General Spinner's report is completed
and in the hands Of the printer. lie deVo'es
considerable space to an argument III ia'or vi
issuinp interchangeable bonds, to bear inter-
cat at the rate of 365 per cent. His ar6u-
ments ON this point are in the main tho same
as those of last year. except that he DelleVes
that it would be wise to allow holders to eS-
change the 1865 for outstanding hVe ana BIZ
per cent. bonds. He says that the greatest
ohiection to metallic currency is its lack OF
elasticity, and is of the opinion that the auop-
,;or q, tho convertible bond will correct this
evil y,
Gen. Walkers essay on the center OF
population brings into new prominence inc
steadiness with which this center chh6S W
the thirty-ninth parallel, along which are still
= ated Baltimore, Washington and Cincinnati
:, At no time from 1899 to 1880 has the center Oh
" population departed north or south moro than
:, twertv.five miles. It has marched westward
=, 399 miles in that PERIOD the greatest leap Dc
:, ing from 1850 to 1860 (eighty-one miles) whei
h., the transfer of a small population to the ia
ci6c coast gave sudden elongation to TN
ma western part of the lever, and necessl'@'o'
- the moving of the fulcrum quite distance
It ia now forty eight miles east OF Cincinnati
and in 1880 will nearly coincide with tha' CITY
'' A Galveston News especial iron
~. Brownsville, gives an account OF raiu
-, Los Almos which causes some exctenleh
This decides the question as to the eXistenc
-, Of organized bands in Mexico to invade leSa
I'd Los Almos il abouto hundred miles siro'u u
Rio Grande. 1t has three or four stores al
- good many Inhabitants, Mr. McuoVef
" the custom house master, is recently iro
Edinburg, and says that party OF ralue
10 were in Hidalbo county about five days as
oen They had bales OF calico, etc, on their hots'
NV They crossed the Rio Grande between Ea'
-" W burg and Ringgold barracks, nearly hunN'
WV miles below Guerro. They were from Ma
'0'N moras and other towns on the lower
,po- ' Grande, and not from Guerro' Ricardo fV
''on is stealing cotton from this side More I'll
'''"' two weeks since herder of CeIaya Do'
lava was captured by band Of robbers. II
SOIL tied his hands behind him, his. feet under
~ 10 horses belly, and turned the horse i''
lc's' After grazing around twelve hours the III
star went to rancho and the poor man waS
hich leased. The maraudars collected the ca
sour, and drove them into Mexico. This occur
VIII about twelve miles south OF BroWhsVllle'