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MERCHANDISE IN THE MAns.-The

MERCHANDISE Iy THE MAns.-The
elaborate report OF Superintendent
Bangs to the Postmaster General re-
lates to a subject which comes more
nearly home To q greater multitude Oh
people than any other within the pro-
vince of the government. 10 COM
prehend the bearing of Ar. Bangs
recommendations the reader must bear
in mind the distinction between the
several classes of mail matter. The
first class comprises letters and pos
tai cards, and 10 change Is recon-
mended in in the rates Of postage on
these. The second class includes news
papers and other periodicals regularly
sent TO subscribers from the Offices Ot
publication, and MIR. Bangs recon-
mends no change in the present rates
on mail matter of this class. The
third class is miscellaneous, but Mr..
Bangs arrauges in to sub divisions,
one including transient newspapers,
periodicals and unsealed circulars, on
which he thinks that the present rates
are too high and ought to be reduced
TO the old figures, and the other, IN
cluding books, seeds and various small
articles OF merchandise, which he
thinks .he mails should continue 10
carry, but without any change in pre-
sent high rates Of postage. MIR. Bangs
furnishes an amusing memorandum of
articles he found in the Dead Letter
Office, which shows some cf the curl>
Gus thing, which pass through the
mails, including lite rattlesnakes IN
perforated boxes, young alllgatorS,
potato bugs, stuffed birds, bIlhar d
balls. gambling implements, gold
watches, SETS Of false teeth, bowie
knives, 3tmerican flags, telescopes,
with many other odd and amusing
things. To people living at places 10
which tie express lines dc not reach
the ability TO send small articles 10y
mail is great convenience but ;Gey
should be willing 10 pay for shch a
service, and there is no justice III
throwing the expense of 1t OH those
who use the mails for correspondence
and periodicals.
, 1876-01-01

INDIANA Iy THE CONGRESSIONAL SPEAR
ERsBrP-Mr. Kerr is the third Speaker
in the United States House Of repre-
sentatives from Indiana The first was
a very able democratic gentleman,
Hon. John w. Davis, from the Wa
bash region of Carlisle, Sullivan coun-
ty. He afterwards became Minister
20 China. The second was Hon. Schuy-
Ter ColiaY, from South Bend. St. Jo-
seph county, III the north, who was
afterward Vice President, and is now
retired from public life. Mr.. Kerr,
from The southern part ofhis state, will
have to do his handsomest to equal his
predecessor Hoosier Speakers, who
were unusually well qualified for the
position.
, 1876-01-01

TIE School AMEYDNENT.- The
democrats in congress do not appear
TO have been much frightened thas far
by the Preside ni's proposed school
amendment To the constitution, but
Judging from late advices they are
somewhat disposed to attempt steal
ing march upon their opp onents by
being the FIRST 10 indorse it. While
the effect Of this wou.d be 10 diyest it
of all importa nee as an is. ue, such a
result would pr obably be the best for
the country, since i. would settle, at a
specially convenient and opportune
season, question which has often
threatened grave complications, and
which the longer it is left open the
uglier it grows. If the exigepcies of
narty strategy should result in closing
every avenue against the encroach-
menrs OF eccleSiaSticiSm and eiimina
ting il from american politics for
ever, the country wOuid have cause TO
doubt whether George Washington
was altoghther inspired when he pen,
ned his solemn warning against the
evils of parti>anship.
, 1876-01-01

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDNENT.-kX'
Speaker Blaine has introduced an
amendment to the constitution pro
viaing "that no State shall make any
law respecting the establishment OF
religion or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof, and that no money raised 10y
taxation in any State for the support
of the public schools, or derived
from any public funds therefor, or any
public lands devoted thereto, shall
ever be under the control Of any reli-
gious sect, and that no money or land
so devoted shall be divided among re-
ligious sects or denominations" The
adoption Of this amendment will take
the whole question Of public schools
out of politics, and as such 1t will be
generally favored.
, 1876-01-01

One TERN-Mr. Randall, of Penn
sylvania, has introduced an amend
ment TO the constitution restricting the
President to 4 single term Of six years.
This amendment is offered at a time
when We believe there 4 chance of lis
adoption. y similar amendment has
been several times proposed within
the last fifty years, but popular inter
est in the subject has heretofore been
too languld 10 carry it through Con-
greSs, 10 say nothing of the necessity
FOR lis ratification by three fUurths OF
the States But the deep public inter
est excited by the third term agitation
makes 1t possible 10 secure now 4
change which has 50 often been at
tempted in vain. The public mind Is
at last alive TO the great importance
OF the subject, and it would be a mis-
fortune not 10 utilize the anxiety and
fears aroused 10y the third term con-
,royersy for the removal OF future
dagger by an amendment Of which
orr wlsest statesmen long ago pointed
out the necessity.
, 1876-01-01

RALEoADs APPsoACHISG THE PAcIF-
r-Arizona is now being colonized
from Massachusetts,. Portions OF a
COLONY. Jus. organized at Boston, are
now on their way TO their destination
on the little Colorado, in the north
western portion Of that Territory.
They come al the way from Boston
by rail TO Southern Colorado, by way,
after reaching the Missouri River, OF
the Atchison, Topeka aud Santa te
road. By adyices from Topeka, Kan,
to the Slh ult., the track of this
road was then laid to Kings Ferry,
twenty miles west of Las Animas, lis
present terminus, since which time
regular trains have commenced Iun
uing TO Kings Ferry. 1t had then
but sixty.two miles to reach PuebIa,
toward which point track-layins pro-
ceeds one mile each day. Rich coal
deposits having been found at Trini-
dad, one hundred miles further, both
this railroad and the narrow gauge one
from Denver TO Puebla are pushing
;heir tracks rapidly to Trinidad, at
which point the eastern colonists will
leave the railroad and take the stage
for four or five hundred miles TO their
new Yankee settlement. Thus it viii
be seen that from the rapidity with
which new railroads are pushing from
the Northeast toward the Gull of Cal
iforria and the Pacific, Eastern EMS
grants to the shores of the Colorado
Chiquito, and other parts OF Arizona,
will IN a very few years have the rail-
road TO land them at their very doors.
BY the completion of this Atchi>on,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad 10 its
final terminus on our coast, the capl.
taiists controlling it will hare torStaIl-
ed Tom Scott and others Of the Texas
Pacific road. No better climate can
be found in the world than that OF the
territory this road penetrateS.
, 1876-01-01

AN EXTRAORDINARY SrORY.-Thc ex
traordinary story is related that the
recent destructive EXPLOSION on the
wharf at BremenhaveH, by which near
fifty persons were killed and sixty
wounded, grew out of diabollcal
plot 10 blow up the steamer Moselle
at sea, for the parpoSe of securing a
heavy insurance. The alleged culprit,
it seems, made an attempt To kill hlm-
self, and subsequently stated that
there was apother case of dynamite
on board, SO connected with clocks
work that it would explode when the
steamer was eight days out. The
police searched the vessel and found
the case indicated, but opening II IAN
operation which must have demanded
no little nerve) ii was seen that the
story was untrue, there beng no
dynamite present 1t is quite posi-.
be that the parsonage who told this
story may have been exposed To the
explosion, and have been injured IN
such a way as to impair his mind.
There are many Instances on record Ot
persons who on becoming insane, have
accused themselves OF dreadful crimes
and conspiratie<. 1t Is, however, by
no means clear ~ yet how tie dyna
mite which caused The explosion came
to be present, and the inquiry about
To be instituted may reveal something
more than mere careIcs>neSs, though
thai is ikelier than anything else Il
have been at the bottom Of the dis.
aSter.
, 1876-01-01

The SALARY QUESTIoN-Mr. Buck
ner, of Missouri, proposes TO reduce
the salary of the President. There
has been great deal of cant on this
subject in the last few months, but
the common sense of the country has
taken no part in it. The salary OF
the President is not more than il
should be. The democrats will make
no capital by this agitation.
, 1876-01-01

TINE To Sr0P.-The action Of Con-
gress in pronOuDclng in advance
against all subsidy schemes, IN what
ever gui>e they may appear, ellcits
words of commentator from all par
ties. and more especially from the in
dependent voter. liz truth it is time
some such declaration was made. An
other decade like the last would bring
this young republic, with all its mag
niticent resources, to the verge Of re
pGdIalion. The national and state eX-
cesSeS in this way are bad enough, but
they are cclilSed by second and third.
rate cities. Wa shington has probably
been the worst pillaged city in Ameri-
ca. The op erations Of tie ring weit
entirely ont Of the proportion TO the
taxable property Of tie city. The
latest computation of the debt piled
up by The Shepherd crowd is 81 ,GS4,>
245 03, IN Eastern journal says A:
For these Ihirty-twO million dollars
/ there is nothing 10 show but streets
without any uniformity or scientific
plan Of grades costly sewers. that
fall i'll with every heavy rainfall pave,
ments that IN two or three years ser
vice are already worn out, and are
even denounced by the Ring Board OF
Health aud the large possessions of
Ho>s Shepherd and his accomplies il
and out of office"
, 1876-01-01

TIE area Of Idaho comprises Sc ,2G3
square miles. The smallest of the
Territories is that Of Utah, which con
lains S+,476 square miles. The lar
gest is Dakotah. which has $50, ,O35
square miles. The entire area of all
the Territories is 81, ,073 square mules
being greater space than is occupied
by the twenty seven States east Of the
Mississippi.
, 1876-01-01

II is stated that democrats at Washington
are falling in with the Presidents susges-
ton of constitutional amendment prohibit
ing the support of sectarian schools ont of
public moneys. aud the democratic assoeia-
,ion, of Washington. adopted resolutions n
favor Of such an amendment.
, 1876-01-01

RAILROAD SUBSDIES.-Tom ScOtl'S
Texas and Pacific subsidy scheme re.
ceiYed lis death.blow III the House
when 4 resolution committing that
body against an Congressional aid,
direct or indirect, to " associations OF,
corporations engaged or proposing to
engage in public or private enterprise
was adopted by vote Of 223 to SO.
This settles tho question Of further
subsidies, and moi only for the present
session, bu: for all time. The couciu.
sion now reached was long since pre-.
dicted, and, indeed, it would lave
been impossible to anticipate any other
rave on the hypothesis that the demo.
Gratis were hopeless imbecileS. The
fact is that Tom Scott conceived and
undertook To carry out his grand en-.
terprlse ten years too late. The coun-
try had tried the subsidy doctrine
throughly, and had reapei bitter ex.
perence trOm lis experiments in that
direction. The fact of the North
Pacific, and the malodorouS reminiS-
cences Of the Credit Mobiher, had
combined with the phenomena Of the
farmers war upon the Western rail
roads TO convince the people HAT The
principles underlying the system. Were
Objectionable, and that the evils far
outnumbered the benefits deriYalls
irom i.
, 1876-01-01

COLONEL JAMES. o. BRoADHEAD has
been appointed as special counsel in
the prosecution of the whiskey cases
at St. Louis, in place of General Hen
derson. General Babcoek gave bail at
St.Louis in the sum of $4,000, for his ap.
pearance. In the case of Burbank &
Reynolds, distillerS, for conspiracy to
detraud the revenue, at Milwaukee,
the jury returned a verdict of'guiliy.
, 1876-01-01

SICK SENATOR Senator Cameron,
Of Pennsylvania, has been i'll al
Washington since the opening Of The
session, and his friends have been sp-
prehenSire that on account of his age
-seyenty.Six-he might not be able
10 recover. This they more regret be-
cause shonld he die, the, the demo.
cratic legislature, which soon meets,
Woaid elect his successor.
, 1876-01-01

The suits brought by the Pacific
Mail Company TO recover money paid
bylrwin to Shumaker, King and others,
IN lobbying for the subsidy. have been
reinsIaied in the district court, coun.
sel for the company stating they were
withdrawn through misapprebension.
, 1876-01-01

TIE dollar is nowhere 50 mighty as
in New York. It's possession by
Tweed, the Boss, made him the au-
rocrat of the ring, and It's loss 10 the
citizens as taxpayers made the com>
munity of the metropolitan city vir>
tuouS-they arose and Tweed went
down. To the latter in the criminals
prison wealth contributed TO alleviate
dis sorrows, and there is no doubt but
that it enabled him TO escape from The
debtors prison.
, 1876-01-01

Iowa SEyAtoRsHIP.-The contest fUr
the seat III the United States Senate,
now occupied by George G. Wright,
which is to be filled by the Iowa Iegisla'
ture, wakes warm. This senatorial race
seems to be at present narrowed
down to ex-senator Harlan and
Secretary of War helknap, with the
greater chances IN favor OF the latter,
whose election would give President
Grant still furtter experience III
Cabinet making. But the Hawkeyes
are Matching out all sorts Of candi>
dates, aud none can tell which way
the popular current may finally run.
, 1876-01-01

If fGeneral Grants injunction touch
me TIE whisky frauds, to "let no gull
" mar escaie,' is obeyed, the Cincin-
Hatu Commercial declares that lie
will nave TO call at the Penitentiary
when ne nckt visits ST. Loais, 10 find
The mos. leTcted of his st. Louis
friends.
, 1876-01-01

Ar a meeting Of Methodist minis
tiers. in Salt Lake, Utah, resolutions
were adopted protesting against the
action of Bishop Haven and the
Methodist preachers in Boston, in
nominating Grant for third term,
sud denounc;ng the course pnrsed by
President Grant as regards the terri
fnrv
, 1876-01-01

CONGRESSMAN LAMAR is q candidate
for United States Senator from Mis-
sissippi.
, 1876-01-01

ATLANTIC SEAPORT CONrEUTIcN.-
There is great competition between
the different cities Of the North At
lantic for the grain and other products
of the west. Baltimore is at present
bidding with the most spirit for the
grain trade. \ drawback of three
cents per GENITAL Is offered on all grain
received from the west for expectation
which passes through the elevator
there and the greatest facilities are
offered TO the shipping merchant for
passing his produce through Baltimore
on lis way 10 Europe. without extra
charge Of anv sort ia that city. New
York, New Orleans, and other cities
can only successfully compete by
furnishing similar facilities for reship
ing, and by exhibiting similar Iiber-
ality.
, 1876-01-01

THE CgNTEYyIAL.-It seems proper
that the local celebrations of the
Fourth of July, 1876, which viii be
held throughout the land, should be
made to contribute to a permanent
historical memorial of the Centennial
Celebration. In each county prOyis.
OH should be made for the delivery OF
an address tracing the history of that
particular community for the past
century or from the time Of It's growth,
It's resources, industries, prospects, etc,
These addresses should be published
IN a uniform size-that Of the con
greSsiOnal documents, for in stance
in order that they may be bound to-
gether by states. To competent per,
sons the preparation of such addresses
would not be an unduly burdensome
task; but in the aggregate they would
constitute an Invaluable historical re.
pository such rs no nation has ever
had the opportunity 10 collect. De,
signatIons of the historians ought tC
be made without delay, in order that
they may have time TO accomplish
their work. 1t is to be hoped that
the press will give general circulation
to the project, and that each journa
will see 10 its communication in il!
own locality, and that the slight ex
penses involved be assumed by tht
county or town authorities.
, 1876-01-01
40 ADsEHEI>EKN.

The walla Walla Sr,rEsnsS has a much lar'er
circulation than any other IaI-r pnilisici III 'he
Iert,.aT. Of Wa-hingt,, aal Eenos oi'yrs S'ii'fir
inducements % advertisers WhJ would reach tIe
very b-st class Of paying customers.
, 1876-01-01

THE future of the French Republic
is well assured in the result Of the
elections to the Senate. Ten more re-
publican life Senators were elected 10y
the Assembly, leaving it certain that
out Of the sevenry-hve 10 be chosen
by that body there WIZ scarce be a
dozen not i'll sympathy with the cons
servative republic. The effect Of this
upon the country ~i!I be immense,
and insures an overwhelming republi.
can majority in the Senate when the
balance is elected b. the people and
III the new Assembly.
, 1876-01-01

EX-SENATOR NYE, of Neyads. has been
taken from the insane asylum. His CON-
pleie recovery Is hoped for
, 1876-01-01

New INDIAN CoNMlssIoNEr-The
Hon. John Quincy Smith, of Ohio, the
newly appointed Commissioner of
Indian atlairs,iS spoken of very highly
by the administration papers as man
Of ability, experience, sterling integ-
riiy, etc. But what is inconsistent
wish this reputation which is thus
given him, is the fact that lie was not
lie elected by his constituents, who
ought 10 know him, and whom he
served in the Forty third Congress.
For the present, or Forty-toGrth
Congress, they Overwhelmingly de-
teated him.
, 1876-01-01

MIsHRs Is THE BLACK HlLLs.-Not"
withstanbing tue extreme cold wealth
er in the Black Hills country OF
Dakota, at last accounts the gulches
were full of miners who have Hooked
thither since the departure OF the
troops for their winter quarters at
Fort Laramie. General Crook, IN ms
recent report to the Secretary OF War
said his impression is that serious
trouble would ensue when the miners,
heretofore driven out, should attempt
To return, which he believed they
would DO. Bat they are at work
without interference from the troops
who have been withdrawn, and they
will be likely to render good account
of the Indians if attacked by them
According TO General Crooks report
the miners give reasons for their ac:
ticn, AMI not only the General bat
many others sYmpathiZe with them III
developing these mines and setting
up cur wild but PRODUCTIVE territory.
GENERAILSsIHO.-A Washington eorres'
pondent Of the Chicago Jos,lG! reports new
plan by which the nation may retain the ser
retirement at the close Of his present term,
This plan Is simply TO declare by law that
President Grant should be Generalissimo OF
the army. This would at once place him in
the position he held when elected to the
Presidency. with slight change in title, ~
as not to affect the present rank Of Genetal
Sherman. The latter wouid still be General,
is>ino would reduce him relatively, but not
actually. He would remain General with a
Generals pay, but would not be the head OF
the army. y precedent for this proposition
is instanced in the action Of Congress which
created the Office Tor Washington after his re-
tiremcnt, when war was threatened with
France. Although The army is little top,
heavy now WI It's newly created Lieutenant
General and General, still, If war should
be threatened with any foreign power, it is
not improbable that he wOuld be placed at
the head under some such title as that sug-
ges,ed
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-01-27

ROBERT HAMMOND, son of James Ham
mond, of this place, has been on a wild goose
chase away down in Kentucky and Virginia.
He arrived home on Monday evening. His
principal stopping point was at Cassville,
about thirty miles south of Catlettsburgh,
Ohio. Catlettsbllrgh is on the Ohio River,
and is about the extreme southern point OF
this State. He was the guest of Rev. Black,
formerly of New Athens-but more recently
of Monmouth, Ill. Their ways down there are
not our ways. They stick to the old-time Gus
toms. Although coal abounds they burr
wood in the .old-fashioned fre-places. Theil
corn pones' are delicious. They farm princi
pally with oxen. Their kitchens, dining
rooms, parlors, and sleeping apartments ar,
one and the same. Their stock is of very in
ferior quality, and their management, in al
most every particular, anything but business
like. They need good farmers and busines
men badly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-01-27
National Road.

The Committee heretofore appointed for the
purpose of memorializing the legislature,
made their report to public meeting held in
St. Clairsville, on Saturday The memorial
sets out the advantage of the National Road
to the citizens of Belmont county; the large
proportionate tolls paid by this county; its bad
condition, &c, and concludes by asking the
Legislature to place it under the control of the
several counties through which it passes, Or
in any event to give Belmont county the con-
troll of that part of the road within her bor-
ders. The report of the Committee was adopt
ed unanimously and the committee were au-
thorized to take such further action as is ne
cessary TO accomplish the ends of the me-
morialists.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-01-27

1S accordance with the recommendation CT
the Centennial Authorities at Philadelphia, and
of the State Agricultural Convention of Ohio,
which convened at Columbus on the 5th inst,
recommending the celebration of the Centen-
nial Fourth Of July, the Board of Managers of
the Belmont Co. Agr'l Society, at their meeting
on Saturday, determined to hold grand Pic
Mic and Celebration worthy of the momentous
era in our Nations history One of the in-
tellectual feasts of the occasion will be a his
torical address to embrace the historical facts
and data pertaining to the development of the
County within the last century, which the
Hon. Lorenzo Danford has been invited to
deliver. There will be one or more grand
Balloon ascensions during the day, and mag
nifcent display of Fireworks at night. II
addition TO these attractions there will b,
sports Of the Ring Of the most exciting char
acter. The managers are determined that tn
coming 4th Of July for st. Clairsville and al
; the country rouud about, shall be one gran,
. gala day. Hurrah for the 4th of July, any
how!