Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-01-08
tNNS OF The DAY
q TO sho1 TIE gerry age and body Of the Times.

For more than two years past legal contro-
versy has been in progress as to the right OF
Bishop O'Hara to disposses Father Stack at
Williamsport, Pa, of his charge; The priest
incurred the diSpleasure OF the Bishop, ana
the latter erdeavored to remove hun from the
position of pastor of the parish Father Stack
resisted and carried his case to the Courts lt
will soon be decided upon BY the Supreme
Court of the State which will have before 1t
the delicate questions involved Ill certain &C.
cleslastical rights.
1t having trauspired that private persons
in South Carolina and elsewhere have Issued
due bills payable to bearer, which circulate as
money, it has been proposed to apply to Con-
gress for an act to punish the issuers. Some
of the iufatonists, however, are satisfied to let
the South Carolina due bills 20 as far as they
will. They are likely to continue to be due
bills.
New YORK consumes 10 a year 450,OoO head
of cattle: Philadelphia, 100000; Boston,
l2O, 900; Brooklyn, 100, 900; Baltimore, $50, 900;
Pittsburg, 100000 Cincinnati, 10000; ST.
Louis, $50, 900; Chicago, 10000; and other
cities aud towus, 100000. Total, 2,0l0,0O
The cholera has broken out among the
Dutch troops in Acheen. The English are
suffering severely from fever IN Ashautee.
Proposed Cheap Transportation.
WASHINGTON, Jan The bill reported by
the committee 90 roads and canals and recon-
mitled, providing for the appointment OF a
commission to regulate the tariff on the rail-
roads of the country, will probably be subject
TO some notifications or amendments before
beipg again submitted for action. The bill has
called forth much comment both here aud
throughout the country The bill is very
we'll understood here as concession to
the grangers demanded by party interests.
The result of the fall elections in the west de-
monstratcd clearly enough the hold OF the re-
publican party in that section was becoming
fatally weakened The republican politicians
have been satisfied ever since that something
must be done to at leas; give an appearance 0!
meeting the demands OF the grangcrs. The
salary grab was very odious out west, and as
MIR. Tipton said 10 the Senate this afternoon,
there was no conscientious motives whatever
involved in the determination to repeal 1t, but
that selfish political motives were at the bottom
of the whole thug.
So with this railroad bill. II meets entirely
the views of the western farmers in their cru
SADIE against railroads. But the mere report OF
bill from committee amounts to nothing.
II is not improbable that und er the streets OF
political necessity, aud with the enlarged ideas
of federal power now prevailing, this bill might
be put through the present House Of Repre-
sentatives In the Senate this is not so Ger
tain, for there it would open up broad field foI
discussion, and would be opposed by many in
hueuta republican Senators from the east.
1t may be thata serious attempt will be made
to pass this bill The mere announcement OF
such intent will, however beget most serious
alarm in business quarters. The bill proposes
to put under the control of a commission every
railroad in the United States so far as regards
the rates of toll and compensation for freight
and passengers Wash. Cor. Balt. SIN.