Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1872 — Missouri—Republicanism Spreading. [ARTICLE]

Missouri—Republicanism Spreading.

By the official report of the rote of Missouri, we find nearly all the border counties of the State on the north and west giving large Republican majorities. Northwest Missouri is largely Republican, for nearly every candidate, from President down to Constable, is elected by handsome majorities, and, as a natural sequence, peace and prosperity reign triumphant. The official vote of the Btate will, it is thought, show a Republican gain of fmlly 20,000 in the last two years. Being the fifth State in the Union in population and wealth, it must and will take eqnal rank with the great Republican States of the nation; and it is believed that, by the next Presidential election, the State will roll up a Republican majority equal to Illinois, Wisconsin or lowa, as ninetenths of the new. settlers belong to that party that cleaned out the Greeleyites in the late election in all the States north of Mason and Dixon’s line. All hail Missouri !—Grant City Star. \ postal convention went Into effect the Ist of December, between the United States and Newfoundland. The rate of letter postage Is reduced to six cents per l half ounce and under. Two cents on each two ounces- must be prepaid on pamphlets, periodicals, and other printed matter, as well as on patterns and samples, and two cents each for newspapers. The same rates as above, except on letters, are collected on all matter from Newfoundland when delivered in. the United States, without regard to what may have been prepaid there. Each country collects its own postage on all matter sent or received, and no accounts are kept between the two. [ . v Thk bill before the Vermont Legisla-ture,-making jtlie membership of secret societies a challengeable disqualification for sitting on juries, was defeated in tift House by a vpte of 159 to 35,