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MECHANICAL.
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PANY—Office on Alabama Street.
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PANY—Office on Whitehall Street near the Railroad.
WM. W. CLAYTON, Agent
AGENCY NORTH-WESTERN BANK—Office at Wash
ington Hall. W. P. INMAN, Agent.
ATLANTA INSURANCE COMPANY—Office, next dooi
to Georgia Railroad Bank.
J. P. LOGAN, President
Pbbiwo Bboww, Cashier.
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F. M. JOHNSTON, Secretary.
JOHN F. KZZARD, Treasurer.
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meets find Saturday night in each month.
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TO ADVERTISERS.
THE McKinney (Texas) Messenger, now In its seventh
vofama, is published tn the heart or the richest portion
of Toxas, has an oxtetmlvo circulation, and to one of the
cheapest adverUain* mediums In the South Went as wit
nem the following rutee per annum; (Halt caris, balance
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Address. THOMAS * DARN ALL,
April Publishers.
TURNIP SEED.
H"' AVING just received a large and carefully
eeleeted lot of Turnip Bead, we enn fora
ieb orders for any quantity.
Bead* ye I tabla."lß
jujTSoif MASSEY A LANSDKLK
Georgia Railroad & Banking Company.
Augusta to Atlanta, 171 Miles—Fare, *5 50.
GEORGE YONGE, Superintendent.
MORNING PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta, daily, at 9.05, A. M.
Arrives at Augusta at 6.20, P. M.
Leaves Augusta, daily, at 0.30, A. M.
Arrives at Atlanta at 9.45, A. M.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta, daily, at 7.15, P. M.
Arrives at Augusta at 5.56, A. M.
Leaves Augusta at 2.30, P. M.
Arrives at Atlanta at 11.45, P. M.
This Road runs in connection with the Trains
of the South Carolina and the Savannah and
Augusta Railroads, at Augusta.
ATLANTA & WEST-POINT R. R.
Atlanta to West-Point, 87 Miles—Fare,..*3 50.
GEORGE G. HULL, Superintendent.
DAT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta, daily, at 10.10, A. M.
Arrives at West-Point at 3.10, P. M.
Leaves West-Point, daily, at 3.00, P. M.
Arrives at Atlanta at 7.51, P. M.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta, daily, at 0.30, A. M.
Arrives at West-Point at 5.46, A. M.
Leaves West-Point, daily, at 3.15, A. M.
Arrives at Atlanta at 7.59, A. M.
This Road connects with the Montgomery A
West-Point Road at West-Point.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD.
Atlanta to Chattanooga, 138 Miles—Fare,....*s.
JOHN W. LEWIS, Superintendent.
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta, daily, at 10.10, A. M.
Arrives at Chattanooga at 7.00, P. M.
Leaves Chattanooga at 1.45, A. M.
Arrives at Atlanta at 10.00, A. M
This Road connects,each way,with the Romo
Branch Railroad at Kingston, the East Ten
nessee and Georgia Rialroad at Dalton, and the
Nashville A Chattanooga Railroad at Chatta
nooga.
MACON & WESTERN RAILROAD.
Atlanta to Macon, 102 Miles—Fare *4 50.
ALFRED L. TYLER, Superintendent.
Macon A Western Railroad Company, )
Macon, Georgia, July 30, 1861. J
ON and after Sunday, 4th of August, the
Passenger Train will run as follows :
Leave Macon 10 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta 4 P. M.
Leave Atlanta Il A. M.
Arrive at Macon.. 5 P. M.
The 11 A. M. train from Atlanta connects at
Macon with the Central Railroad 10 P. M.
train for Savannah, and Southwestern Rail
road at 11.45 P. M. for Columbus.
IMPROVED
METALIC BURIAL CASES.
Illi i imii i"ii'V
ALSO, a general assortment of WOOD COF
FINS, including Rosewood and Mahogany.
MarwhaPs Sheet Metallc Burial Cases,
An entirely new article, nearly as light as wood,
and closed up with India Rubber-air tight—
for sale at my Rooms, io Markham’s New Build
ing, on Whitehall street, up stairs.
L. ROBINSON.
Residence on Bridge street, near Col. John
Collier's.
Orders, by telegraph, or otherwise, prompt
ly attended to. Jan. 15,1861—1 y.
•CHIA DIPBT.
COLE & WYLY, '
Wholesale and Retail {
Dealers In
pHINA, Glass, Silver, Plated Ware, Vases, i
Parian Figures, Kerosine Lamps, Candle- !
sticks, Tea Trays, Table Mats, Baskets, Glass
Shades, Table Cutlery, Ac., A.,
(HEAP FOR CASH.
White Granite and common Crockery at i
wholesale, at Charleston prices, nearly opt»o- •
site Beach A Root's, Whitehall street,
Atlanta,.... Georgia.
April id, 1861.
THOMAS F. LOWE,
■MI Commission Merchant,
For the purchase and sale of Western Produce,
CoUca, Groceries an 4 Merchandize geaerally,
iArmmAMa STreef.
ATLANTA. GEORGIA.
April KIUL
QA BBLS LARD OIL just received oa con- ;
V sirnsnent and for sale by
jue I BUTLER A PETERO. 1
THE PUBLIC GOOD BEFORE PRIVATE ADVANTAGE.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SfflßAl MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1861.
DR. H. W. BROWN.
OFFICE —At his residence on Calhoun street,
near the Medical College. march 20.
DR. JOHN G. WESTMORELAND,
OFFICE on Alabama street, opposite Market
House. Can be found either at his office
or next door above. March 26.
DR. W. F. WESTMORELAND,
Office and Residence JVorth Side of jna
rietta Street.
March 21.
DRS. ALEXANDER di SHELBY,
Office on Marietta Street, North side.
DR. Alexander’s residence on Marietta St.,
South side.
Dr. Shelby may be found at the Trout House.
March 27.
SPRING MILLINERY!
Mrs. J. M. Boring
HAVING just returned from Charleston,
where she purchased her present Spring
Goods, takes pleasure in inviting her friends
and the public to an inspection of them.
Her stock is quite full, and embraces all the
latest styles, which will be offered at prices to
suit the times.
Rooms in Parker’s new brick building, on
Whitehall street.. April 11.
COX.HILL & CO.
WHOLESALE GROCERS
AND DIRECT IMPORTERS OF
WINES, LIQUORS,
CIGARS, TOBACCO, &.C.,
Peach-Tree Street, Atlanta, Georgia.
March 23
w
p. e. McDaniel,
WHOLESALE GROCER,
AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
AND DEALER IN
ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE,
Hunter Street, between Whitehall and Prior,
Atlanta, Georgia.
March 20.
BUTLER & I’ETEKS,
(Successors to High, Butler A C 0.,)
Commission Merchants,
FOR THE PURCHASE AND SALE OF
T K JV.V ESS EE /• ROl> V (f.
Cotton, Groceries, dee.
ATLANTA GEORGIA,
HAVE in store, at their Fire-Proof Ware
House, on the corner of Forsyth street and
the Railroad, (opposite the State Road Depot,)
100 BARRELS LARD OIL;
50 BALES YARN ;
100 BARRELS LARD;
200 KEGS PRIME LEAF LARD;
1,000 BARRELS FLOUR.
May 4.
CUTTING & STONE,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Foreign and
Domestic
DRY GOODS,
CONNALLY’S Block, Whitehall street, four
doors from Alabama Street. aprll.
ATLANTA
CLOTHING HALL.
I HAVE just returned from the North with a
large stock of READY-MADE CLOTHING,
dfjdtL an<l sm rea dy so supply the cit- ju
r > s « nß of Atlanta and the sur- pv illff
rounding country, with
COATS, PANTS,
VESTS, SIH UTS,
Handkerchiefs, Neck-ties,
| HATS, CAPS, SOCKS, and everything else
I k WjMk ,a tJl ® Clothing line, oi good
quality and at LOW PRICES.
J- : All Who desire BARGAINS
should give me a call.
—ALSO, ON HAND—
Jewelry! Knives !
Combs!
A.n<l other Notions.
M. OPPENHEIMER,
Whiteall street, nearly opposite
march 15U Eddle.nan A Bank
i DK WITT BMVYW. TNCMI. W. SAVABK.
BRUYN As SAVAGE,
ARCHITECTS, ?
Savattnait, Georgia,
lu Batteraby’s new brick build
ing, corner of Bay and Dray-
| ■■KiSSlwsßß-i h>n Streets.
WILL furnish Plans and Specifications, amd
give their personal attention to the erec-
; tion ot Buildings in any part of the State.
Refer to the Ctixens of Savannah generally.
• March 18-Iy. I
FRESH
DRUGS S MBDfflft
HUNNICUTT, TAVIOB 4 JONES,
BSIGN OF THE
GOLDEN EAGLE
I ■
Corner Peachtree
and Decatur sta.,
ATLANTA. GEO.
HAVING unequaled facilities for the pur
chase and Direct Importation of goods, the
Proprietors would respectfully call the atten
tion of Physicians, Merchants, Planters and
the public generally, to their extensive new
and carefully selected stock of DRUGS, MED
ICINES, PERFUMERY, FANCY ARTICLES,
PAINTS, OILS, AND DYE STUFFS, which
they are now prepared to sell on the most rea
sonable terms for Cash or approved paper In
addition to their stock of Staple, Drugs and
Chemicals, they have a full assortment oi
TOOTH, NAIL, HAIR AND PAINT BRUSH
ES, DENTAL AND SURGICAL INSTRU
MENTS, Ac., Ac.
They are also Sole Proprietors and Man
ufacturers of TAYLOR’S ANTI-DYSPEPTIC
ELIXIR. march 30 ’6l.
HAMILTON, MARKLEY & JOYNER,
(LATE G. K. A J. L. HAMILTON,)
DRUGGISTS AND APOTHECARIES,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
jqy
THIS firm has been formed for the purpose
of carrying on the
MiFTITr-i DRUG BUSI ™»
■' ; ’ n ’ tß branches,
have lately been
enabled to replen-
about twelve hun
dred gallons of va
rious kinds of
OILS, ALCOHOL, <fcc.
We can also now offer
Gum Opium, Cream Tartar,
Sulphate Quinine, Super Carb Soda,
Sulphate Morphine, Sal Soda,
Gum Camphor, Sulphur, Ac., Ac.,
With the usual assortment of
CHEMICALS, DRUGS, &c.
We give notice to our customers that the
earliest day ships can come into a Southern
port we shall commence to IMPORT DIRECT
our supplies of Foreign Drugs, Spices, Cognac
Brandy, Wines, Glassware, Ac.
Terms strictly and invariably CASH.
HAMILTON, MARKLEY A JOYNER.
July 27, 1861-ts.
1861. 3861.
SALMONS & SIMMONS,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer* In
FOREIGN & DOMESTIC DRY GOODS,
Corner of Whitehall and Alabama Sta.,
Atlanta. Georgia.
NEW SPRING STOCK!
ONE of our firm having returned from Mar
ket, where he has just completed an exten-
Ji,"' P urc ha«e of our
Spring Stock of
GOODS,
A we take this method
°f advising the pub-
He oi the same.
Our stock of
Stap(© and Fanej
were never more attractive. The supply of
BLEACHED AND BROWN SHEETINGS AND
SHIRTINGS. !>#.,
is ample.
Grepe D’.ieflait,
Harege Anglais,
French C.hlnts,
Jffoxambique,
Grode Rhine,
and a splendid assortment of
Plain K Fancy Sllko,
Silk JEantleo.
Ihalert, Sc.,
may be found among our assortment also,
Ladies’
ALEXANDER KJD GLOVXS, SILh. MliS,dbc.
'S.rery variety of Ladies’ and Misses’ SHOES,
manufactured in Philadelphia expressly for
our trade. A more beautiful lot of
CARPETINGS. OIL CLOTHS AND MATTINGS
we have never displayed in this market.
All of which we will sell low for CASH.
Orders promptly attended to.
SALMONS A SIMMONS,
Atlanta, March 28, 1861.
BRYSON & BEAUMONT,
Manufacturers and Dealer* in
MEN'S St BOY'S CLOTHINS,
GENTLEMEN S FURNISHING GOODS.
CLOTBS. CASSIMKRKS AND VXSTING&,
Markham’s I run-Front Building, White
hall, Street,
v. «. aarsos, 1 ATLANTA. GEORGIA.
v. «. IBAVMOSTI April M, 18*1.
Reckless Profligacy of the Federal Gov
ernment.
From the London Times, Julp, 81.
The armies of Xerxes and the wealth of
Solomon would hardly sustain a comparison
with the hosts of men and mountains of money
which—at any rate, upon paper—are placed at
the command of Mr. Lincoln for the suppression
of the Southern Confederacy. We may ven
ture, perhaps, to pass without too rigorous a
scrutiny the bold, though somewhat gascona
ding, "vote by which the intelligence of the
defeat at Manassas was received in Congress.
The millions so precipately offered represen
ted, probably, the patriotic resolution of the
North to spend its last dollar in the preserva
tion of the Union; but, without pressing these
loose figures to their literal import, we are
really astounded at the conclusions which are
forced upon us by recent reports. It used to
be thought that this country had attained an
unhappy but unapproachable eminence in na
tional indebtedness. Half our entire expen
diture in ordinary years still goes to pay the
interest of borrowed money, and when we were
told to look at America and observe how, un
der democratic institutions, a country as po
pulous as our own could be governed at a
quarter of the expense, we could not but
feel the force of the contrast. We knew, in
deed, that America had all her temptations to
come, and it was occasionally remarked in
these columns that the tendency to extrava
gance on the other side of the Atlantic was
rapidly increasing; but the comparison still
remained a striking one. Now, however, a cri
tical test has been applied. America is involv
ed in war, and the rate at which she is rais
ing men and money will, if carefully examin
ed, appear almost too extraordinary for be
lief.
The exact position of American finances
must be to a great extent a matter of estimate
even in the country itself; but it has been
calculated, on good authority, that the actual
expenditure of the Federal Government at the
present moment is the rate of about £75,000,-
000 per annum. This, it is true, is less by
£9,000,000 than the amount of our expendi
ture—£B4,ooo,ooo—in the heaviest year of
the Crimean war; but one-third of that charge
was absorbed in providing for the national
debt, and the whole sum only showed an ex
cess of some £35,000,000 over our ordinary
place expenditure. In 1853 we spent £51,«
000,000; in 1854, £60,000,000; and it was
not until we found ourselves in the very ag
ony of the struggle that we added some sixty
per cent, to our usual outlay. We may say,
that the war cost us for the twelve months,
when it was most expensive, about £30,000,-
000 of money, whereas the civil war is cost
ing the Americana at its very outset at least
twice the sum. An expenditure of £75,000,-
090 represents an excess of about £60,000,-
000 on the ordinary outlay of the Federal
Government, and this incurred when the first
campaign has just been opened, and before
the real proportions of the war can be sup
posed to be developed. This however, through
a most ominous fact constitutes by no means
the most striking feature of the case before
us.
When we, in this country, were spending
these tens of millions upon the war in hand,
we were also taxing ourselves in propotion.
We met an outlay of £84,000,000 by taxes to
the amount of £63,000,000 net, actually paid
into the Exchequer after the cost of collection
had been deducted. In the following year
we provided no less than £68,000,000 to meet
an aggregate charge of £78,000,000 ; so that
in the two years together we added only some
£30,000,000 to the national debt. In fact, the
whole war, sanguinary and exhausting as it
proved, only augumented the public debt by
the sum of £32,793,000. Let us now con
trast these statistics with the accounts receiv
ed from America. The ordinary Federal re
venue amounts to about £16,000,000, so that
the extraordinary charge of the war, to be
met either by taxation or loan, is, as we have
said, about £60,000,000. But how do the
Americans propose to raise this ? What pro
potion will they borrow, and what propotion
will they levy by taxation ? As far as we can
collect from the figures transmitted, they de
sign to borrow the whole. They have voted
fresh taxes, undoubtedly; but these taxes,
we imagine, will do little more than provide
for the mere interest of the debts contracted,
or, as it is phrased, serve as “ a basis for
loans.” We arrive at this conclusion partly
by arithmetical calculation, and partly from
intimations conveyed by the American jour
nals. We are told distinctly that though Con
gress was ready to authorize any amount of
loans, it hesitated when asked for supplies on
which to base them ; and we obserwe that,
though the best affected of the New York ban
kers did at first suggest that provision should
be made for meeting part of the principal,
they presently admitted that this arrangement
might be dispensed with. Moreover, it seems
pretty evident that the produce of new
taxes will not suffice for much more than the
linquidation of the enormous interest, which,
as we shall presently remark, will be inces»
santly accruing. Until we get the estimates
of the Government placed before us we can do
little more than approximate to the truth as
by conjecture and computation; but if the
Federal revenue were to be doubled by the
proceeds of fresh taxation, the increase of in
come would be almost all absorbed in paying
the interest of the debt which will probably
bo contracted by this time twelve months. In
other words, the Americans are now creating
a national debt at the rate of £60,000,000 a
year.
We entreat the reader to observe for a mo
ment what this implies. Such a course throws
all our borrowing into , the shade. In all the
nine years of the American war, from 1773 to
1783, wo only borrowed £104,000,000. In the
twenty two years of the great Revolutionary
warwe averaged less than £40,000.000 a year,
aad In the tremendous year 1813-14 the loan
was but £36,000,000. But this is only half
the battle. The burthen of a load depends
not so much on the amount of principal as on
the rate of interest. We borrowed our mon
ey eves ia 1813 at a little above four and a
half per cent, and in 1854 at a little above
three per cm t. The Americans, however, be
gan by an offer of seven per cent., and are at
this moment compelled to pay ten or twelve
NEW SERIES: VOL. I-NO. 181.
per cent. We find, therefore, that while £60,-
000,000 annually would bo added to their na
tional debt, £6,000,000 annually would be ad
ded to the charge of that debt., so that four
years and three-quarters of their present ex
penditure would saddle them with a burthen,
equal to that which we have incurred in a cen
tury and a half. Mr. Gladstone has to pro
vide some £23,000,000 to satisfy the public
creditors of Great Britain, In the year 1866,
if the American should be protracted so long,
Mr. Chase’s successor will have to provide
rather more than that sum for the creditors of
the Union.
It is obvious to remark that the war may
not be carried on so long, or continued at bo
heavy a cost; and, indeed, the exorbitant pro
positions of Congress were problably based
upon the assumption that the wayto make short
work was to go to worx unsparingly at first.
But the history of tho campaign up to the
present point contains little to suggest a spee
dy termination of the struggle. The South
erners are not likely to succumb, nor the North
erners to retire. Neither is it at all in accor
dance with experience in these matters that the
cost of a war should be diminshed as it goes
on. The scale of operations, indeed, as far
as resolutions go, has been actually extended.
The last mail tells us that the volunteer bills
passed by Congress empower the President to
call one million men into the field, and it was
supposed that half those numbers would be
actually raised. Napoleon had not a larger
army when be crossed the Niemen with the
most prodigious host ever seen in mo
dern days. We can detect no sign, therefore,
of any curtailment in the dimensions of this
extraordinary war, though we may well doubt
whether the Americans will find themselves
able to borrow quite so fast as they desire.—
They have evidently the will to rival the most
reckless of States in this ruinous race, but
they may not have the power. Their credit
is already but indifferent, and the terms of the
market are sure to become less and less fa
vourable as loan follows loan. This, howev
er, is the only difficulty likely to operate as a
check to the career. The desire for a com
promise, already discernible in the classes on
whom the expenses of the war will fall, would
be ineffective in comparison with the passions
of the multitude exempted from taxation.—
We see, in short, the Democracy in a crisis
which brings all its various pretentions to trial.
Its institutions are certainly not calculated to
make men pacific, or this unnatural war would
never have been adopted and prosecuted as it
has been. As certainly have they no tenden
cy to promote public economy, for the expen
diture of the Americans is beyond all exam
ple. We shall now be able to note their oper
ation on popular opinion, and observe how
taxes are regulated and obligations incurred
in a great national struggle. The commence
ment, however, says little for a system which
has been eo loudly extolled as superior to all
others.
NEW POSTAGE ACT.
The following law has been enacted by the Congress
of the Confederate States of America :
LBTTEB POSTAGE.
An Act to prescribe the rates of Postage In the Confed
erate States of America and for other purposes.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America
do enact, That from and after such period as the Post
master-General may by proclamation announce, there
shall be charged the following rates of postage, to-wit :
For every single sealed letter, and for every letter in
manuscript or paper of any kind, upon which informa
tion shall be asked for or communicated in writing or
by marks or signs, conveyed in the mall for any dis
tance between places within the Confederate States of
America, not exceeding five hundred miles, five cents;
and for any distance exceeding five hundred miles,
double that rate; and every letter or parcel not exceed
ing half an ounce in weight shall be deemed a single
letter, and every additional weight of half an ounce,
or additional weight of less than half an ounce, shall be
charged with additional single postage; and all pack
ages containing other than printed or written mat
ter—wnd money packages are included in this class
—shall be rated by weight as letters are rated, and
shall be charged the rates of postage on letters; and all
drop letters, or letters placed In any post-office not for
transmission but for delivery only, shall be charged
with postage at the rate of two cents each ; and in all
the foregoing cases the postage must be pre-paid by
stamps ; and in all the letters which shall hereafter be
advertised as remaining over or uncalled for In any
post-office shall be charged with two cents each in addi
tion to the regular postage, both to be accounted for as
other postages of this Confederacy.
PORTAGE ON NEWSPAPERS, PAMPHLETS, AND OTH
ER PRINTED MATTER, INCLUDING BOOKS.
And be it further enacted, That all the Newspapers
published within the Confederate States, not exceeding
three ounces in weight, and sent from the office of pub
lication to actual and bona fide subscribers within the
Confederate States, shall be charged with postage as
follows, viz: The postage on the regular numbers of a
newspaper published weekly, shall be ten cents per
quarter ; papers published semi-weekly, double that
amount; paper* published thrice a week, treble that
amount; papers published six times a week, six times
that amount, and papers published daily, seven times
that amount And on Newspapers weighing more than
theee ounces, there «hall be charged on each additional
ounce In addition t the foregoing rates, on those pub
lished once a week, rive cents per ounce, or fraction of
an ounce, per quarter; on those published twice a week,
ten cents ;>er ounce per quarter ; on those published
three times a week, fifteen cents per ounce per quarter;
on those published six time* a week, thirty cents per
ounce per quarter; and on those published daily, thirty
five cents per ounce per quarter.
And periodicals published ottener than bi-monthly
shall be charged as newspapers.
And other periodicals, sent from the office of publica
tion to actual and bona fide subscribers, shall be charg
ed with postage as follows, viz: The postage on the reg
ular numbers of a Periodical, published within the Con
federate States, not exceeding one and a half ounces in
weight, and published monthly, shall be two and a half
cents per quarter ; and for every additional ounce or
fraction of an ounce, two and a half eents additional; if
published semi-monthly, double that amount. And pe
riodicals published quarterly or bi-monthly, shall be
charged two cents an ounce; and regular subscriber* to
newspapers and periodicals shall be required to pay
one quarter’s postage thereon in advance, at the office
of delivery, unless paid at the office where published.
And there shall be charged upon every other news
paper, and each circular not sealed, hand-bill, engrav
ing, pamphlet, periodical and magazine, which shall be
unconnected with any manuscript or written matter,
and not exceeding three ounce* in weight, and publish
ed within the Confederate States, two cent*; and for
each additional ounce or fraction of an ounce, two
cents additional; and In all cases the postage shall be
pre-paid by stamps or otherwise, as the Post master-
General shall direct.
And Books, bound or unbound, not weighing over four
pounds, shall be deemed mailable matter, and shall be
charged with postage, to be pre-paid by stamps or oth
erwise, as the Postmaster-General shall direct, at two
cents an ounce for any distance.
And upon all newspapers, periodicals and books, as
aforesaid, published beyond (he limits of the Confed
erate States, there shall be charged postage at double
the foregoing specified rates.
The publishers of newspapers or periodicals within
the Confederate States, may send and receive to and
from each other, from their respective offices of publi
cation, one copy of each publication, free of postage.
All newspapers, unsealed circulars, or other unsealed
printed transient matter, placed in any post-office, not
for transmission bat for delivery only, shall be charged
postage at the rate of one cent each.
Daily and Weekly "Confederacy”
for sale at all times, at five cents per copy.
