Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-12-31

understood that there is a disposition n
~. ,,srt ~ at Louis people to conYle I, |
70 ,loss,bIs any person charged wi n
,,,.,,,,,Iirifv J, with the whisky ring, ana to
t1..t T end The country may not be suTpris
-; 10 learn of foul means being used in
The prosecution of these Gases. If this
drclsratioE of Mr.. Dyer is sample Of
the feelings of the cIurt and the people
of ST. Louis, against those indicted il IS
questionable whether, in the interests OF
Justice, the Slate would not be benefited
by Mr.. Dyer leaving il.
So great is the stress placed upon the
expression twill be made special, that
applicants for public offices are, upon
filing their papers, using every concelva,
bic way to get their CASES made special
The usual way is 10 persuade their mem
Der of Congress and many other IL Us
from their State, TO go in person 70 tne
heads of the De partners. Ii one ienlh
of those appl icants which are mace
ssDacial," :" are successful, there VIII DC
mlre of them successful than could rea-
lsonably be expected.
The necessity of an increased force, as
asked by Secretary Chandler, for special
seepts in the Pension Office, is conceded.
n has been impossible, and will
continue TO be so unlrss Congress
| increases this force, 10 preVen
fraudulent claims from different
parts of the country beng favorahly
acted uDon in the Pension Office The
| intention of the Commissioner of Pen
SONS, if he gets an increased force, is TO
so distribute them over the country that
/ they will be in easy acees Al all times TO
/ claimants, and be able 10 investigate
i their claims and report them 10 the ONCE.
| Heretofore the evidence on which the
Pension Office has been compelled TO act
has been nearly entirely exparie.
It appears from the statistics furnished
by George G. Bangs. Superintendent OF
Postal Railway Service, that the revenue
on frst-clsss mail matter is 81 As per pond
on seeond-class mail matter, which IN
cludes papers. magazines, etc, is $l,7o
per pound, and on third-elass mail mat
Ter, II cents per pound, the latter OF
\ course includes merchandise. The COST
/ for carving the first-class mail matter IS
$I.13 per pound; for the second-class II
Is 1923 cents per pound, and on the third
class il is 20.7 cents per pound. The
law regulating this, was passed last ses-
sior through, the labors, more than any
one else, of Gardner G. Hubbard of Cam
bridge, Massachusetts. Mr.. Hubbard is
already here and is supposed TO be fight
ing the postal laws regulating postage
and doubtless feels sanguine that he will
be able, through Congress to get the
postal laws so modified that Adams Elk
press Company will be entirely satisfied
There is no doubt that the loading down
of U. s. mails with merchandise, Is an in
Jury 10 the postal service. In the IA
West and on the Pacific slope, 1t is vel
understood fact that people, including
wholesale dealers of New York ans
other large cities on the Atlantic slope
are making of the q. S. Mail Service al
| express company, transmitting throu 81
/ the mail, IN many instances for one-tentl
of the cost for which they could be ex
pressed. The aggregate profit on first
class mail matter is $4,212, ,39O.70i th
loss on second-class matter is Sc, ,993, OPS
81, and the loss on the third class Is 4,
II3,91553.
There are about eighty persons em
braced in the list Of sp ecial agents of tn
Post Office Department, who have al
annual pass from the Postmaster Gener.
al, over all railroads. steamboats, ano
stage-eoaches that carry the U. s. mail
About twenty of these are compliment
/, arY, given to the First, Second and ThirC
Assistant p M. Gems. and the chiefs o
certain divisions IN that Department
When Mr. Jewell came into office, b.
made de claration TO your correspond
ent that he would not impose upon rail-
roads unnecessary special agent
pass es that he had already written 4
, the president of certain railroad tina
the number of special agents should b
less than fifty. On making out his an
Iual passes last year, he found that thos
who had been heretofore recipients
complimentary passes in his Depart
/ ment, were not so easily satisfied, an
very soon after he extended the list to
number equal to, If not exceeding, tn
one made out by his predecessor. Pos
: master General Cresswell, of which b
complained. No special agent, with tn
exception of the chief of the q. 5. mai
service and his Assist Supts., eve
received more than $1,000 per annum an
three dollars per diem. Very soon afte
. Mr.. Jewell was installed into Office, b
increased the pay of several specia
agents rom three to five dollars pc
diem. One of his first acts was to ap
point Mr.. Z. q. Woodward from Con
necticut, chief OF the depreciation diYi
son, with salary of $2500 per anun
and five dollars per diem, making
salary of nearly $500 per annum. Tn
per diem, the law contemplates to be suf
fcient TO pay the expenses-of an agen
travelling all the time. It Is a notica
BILE fact, in the Post Office Departmen
and outside of 1t in Washington, tina
Mr.. Woodward has not been absen
from Washington and Post Office bust
ness but very few times. and a littl
while at those times, during the pas
year. LIFE.
| Washington. D :. c., Dec. 25 1876.