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ATLAyTA,GEORGIA,
Wodnetday, January SI, 1893.
Itatioaal Baafca.
In another column our readers will find a sum
mary of the provisions and guarantees, upon
which the present system of National Banking
is based, prepared by the Memphis Appeal, and
published recently in that paper. Appended
i hereto the reader will also find the conclusions
at which that journal arrives, in reference to the
system itself, with Which we agree in the main.
The article as a whole is an interesting one, cal
culated to convey to the reader “down South”
much valuable information in regard to this new
system of banking, which, to most of us is a nov
elty, as we have seen and know but little of its
practical operations, while at the North, they are
familiar to all engaged in commerce or other
business operations. As the matter of interest
and usury is now one of grave consideration with
our people, and is being legislated upon by the
representatives of the people at Milledgevillc, it
perhaps would not be amiss for the latter to note
one fact connected with this banking system,
to-wit: that the rate of interest permitted them,
is to 1x5 regulated -by the laws of the State
wherein the association may reside, and if it be
not fixed by such laws, the act allows seven per
cent, only per annum as .the rate of interest.—
Such lxiing the case, it would be well for those
upon whom the duty is imposed of regulating
this matter, to do so with an eye to the monetary
condition of the South and onr State in tlieir
present depressed condition; the necessity that
exists for the introduction of foreign capital into
tlicm, which, it will scarcely be denied, will not
tie introduced into this or any other Southern
State, in the alwence of a fixed rate of interest
exceeding that heretofore prescribed as being
lawful. The reason is plain. Money will seek
the I>est market. Capital will not be invested in
loans South, when the capitalists can secure a
higher rate elsewhere. In the framing, there
fore, of the interest or usury laws, this matter
should lie gravely considered and wisely l«.x-r-
■nined. That an impetus will be given to all
business pursuits in the South, to all improve
ments or enterprises, or they will all be depress
ed, as this question is settled, is plain to ereiy
intelligent man. We live in a new era, and must
look well to what it calls for in a financial, as
well ns in every other sense. The present de
pressed condition of the money market in our
midst, demands that the rate of interest be in
creased. Money is worth more now to our peo
ple than it has ever been worth before, and it
is the part of wisdom to invite, and not drive it
away from those whose industry and enterprise
will enable them to use it at such rates of inter
est :is, in the exercise oi their judgment, they
propose to pay for its use. The fact is, it is our
conscientious belief, that the rate of interest to
lie paid for money borrowed, should lie a matter
of special contract between the borrower and
1 lie lender, and so leil by the law, while, in all
other crises, the rate of interest fixed by law
should at the present time exceed what it has
ever been in the State.
Tine most reactionary of tlio conservative pa
pers in Europe begin to admit the failure ofNa-
poleon’s scheme of a Mexican Empire. Thus
the London Sit unlay lievieu) remarks that Maxi
milian lias not gained a tittle of success, and is
now as dependent on the support of Napoleon’s
troops as he was when he first entered the coun
try. It says: “whatever may be the decision of
the Emperor of the French, the fallot the Mexi
can empire, if it does fall, will probably be due,
not so much to political causes extraneous to it
self, as to its own inherent difficulties. If‘the
Mexican empire were getting on very well, if it
were making way in the country, if it were at
tracting capital and establishing a settled state*
of society, mid if it were lieginning to pay its
way and gel mi urmy of its own, the French
might easily retire, and the Americans would
scarcely interfere with a happy, peaceful, flour
isliing community, simply because it chose to be
governed by a very liberal Emperor. But the
Mexican empire is not getting on well. It does
not attract capital; it docs not secure the wel
come arrival of immigrants; it is not heartily
supported by the Mexicans; its revenue does not
increase in proportion to the increase of its debt;
it canuot enlist a native army on which it can
rely."
A meeting of the stockholders of the National
Exprcas Company, was held in Richmond on
Tuesday, lor the purpose of reorganizing under
the amended charter. Mr. Hugh W. Slietfy was
culled to the chair, and General Moore acted as
secretary. The chairman stated the purpose lor
Which the meeting had assembled, and the trea
surer made a statement, showing that $133,000
had licen paid in, and over $4,830,000 subscribed.
General Joseph E. Johnston was unanimously
re-elected President, with the old Board of Direc
tors. The secretary reported the following as tlie
list of salaries agreed upon: President, $10,000;
Superintendent, $4,0000; Secretary, $3,000;
Treasurer, $3,r>00; Agent at Richmond, $1,500;
Clerks and Messengers, from $50 to $73 per
month.
l ? l>on a motion to reduce the President’s salary
from $10,000 to $0,000, a protracted debate
sprung up, which was finally^put an end to by
the author of the resolution moving to lay the
whole matter on the table.
Admiral. Paukja, commanding the Spanish
squadron oft the coast ot Chili, committed sui
cide on December 3d, 1865. He had sent a ves
sel, the Covadonga, with dispatches to the Isth
mus. Stic was captured by the Chilians, Nov.
26 ; Pareja was informed ot it on the 28tli. On
the 29tli, utter brooding some 30 hours over the
disgrace, the rejxirt of a pistol was heard in the
cabin, and ujion entering, he was found dead,
shot by his own imnd, through the right temple.
On liis table a paper was found, written in a
firm hand, directing that his body should be sunk
out of the Chilian waters.
It is understood from a dispatch to the Balti
more Sun, that another delegation of Radicals
have visited the President to convince him of the
error of his policy, but the Executive was very
determined in the utterance of his views, and en
tirely consistent with what he has heretofore ex
pressed—in fact, their visitations cannot but lie
offensive. The President is not a subject for
proselytism. Sagacious men think that the body
of the Radicals have determined to lie unyield
ing.
The appointment of Win. M. Wadley Presi
dent of the Central Railroad, says the Macon
Telegraph, has proved a good investment for the
stockholders, who have made by it more in ten -
days than they will pay out as his salary in ten
years. The liigh reputation of Mr. Wadley as a
railroad manager gave immediate buoyancy to
the company’s stock, causing it to advance in the
market Irom (58 to 75 cents.
The Comptroller of Currency has written a
letter, dated 8tli insL, in which he states that
“The First National Bank of Attica” is the only
National Bank that has failed under the National
system. Capital $50,000, circulation $45,000, re
ceivable by all National Bauks in the United
States atjMir, and redeemable in lawful money
upon presentation at the Treasury of the United
States.
From tiie Legislative proceedings in our pa
per this morning, it will be seen that Judges of
the Supreme Court were elected on Friday last.
The successful gentlemen are Hon. Iverson L.
Harris, ot Baldwin, and Hon. Dawson A. Walk
er, of Whitfield county.
The Western papers are complaining that it
costs two bushels of corn to send one to market,
a distance of one hundred miles; one hundred
bushels to get a pair of boots; one thousand bush
els to get a suit of clothes; and two tons of com
lor one ton of coal.
From further information upon the •■kjoct
of disturbances upon the Rio Grande, It appears
that the troops making the incursion in Mexico
were not in the service of the United States, as
was at first supposed, but were of an organiza
tion, formed by General Crawford, late of the
United States army, and now in the service of the
Juarez Government in Mexico. The following
is a copy of commissions issued by General
Crawford to men in Texas, where, under a com
mission from the Liberal Government, he has
been enlisting and otganizing a division:
Mexican Republic, American Division, )
Near Matamoras, Mexico. j
The Mexican Government having duly author
ized Major General Crawford to raise and equip
a division of troops for the Mexican service, and
to appoint the officers of said division, you are
hereby appointed Captain, and authorized to
raise a company of sixty men.
A. F. Reed, Chief of Staff.
Under such circumstances troops were enlisted,
and lie was enabled to make the demonstration
we have noticed. The complications resulting
from this movement will be scarcely less serious
than if it had been made by troops in the service
of our Government. It is not to be supposed
that, in that event, it would have been author
ized, and the only difficulty would have been in
repudiating the act to a Government whose ex
istence we hare refused to recognize. But, in
this case, it will appear that the territory of the
United States has been used as a theatre for the
display of a hostile movement against the Maxi
milian Government in Mexico, of which it will
be difficult to show that our authorities were not
cognizant; and if explanations were possible,
it is not certain that they would bo more easy
or more satisfactory in the one case than in the
other.
TniNos ark “done up” in Havana in a funny
and romantic style. A gentleman writing from
there says the foreign coterie is discussing a de
cidedly spicy affair of the heart! There is a
Spanish law by which a young man having an
income of fifty dollars per month and wishing to
marry a young lady, a minor, and unable to ob
tain her parent's consent, can have her deposited
in the house of a mutual friend till the marriage
ceremony is jierformed. Well, a young Cuban
having made a passage to New York and back
with the family of one of our American resi
dents, fell in love with the daughter and is de
termined to maray her, if possible, in spite of the
opposition of the parents. An order has been
issued to have the damsel deposited, but is still
in abeyance, the father having applied to the
Captain General through bis counsel. Each new
phase of the case is eagerly discussed and all de
sire to see tiie sequel.
Letters from Vera Cruz to the 13th say the
greatest, drawback to the Empire is the stringency
of money. It has no exchequer, nor means of
forming one. No sooner have a few dollars ac
cumulated in the custom-houses at Vera Cruz
and other ports, than they arc checked for by the
Minister of Finance and withdrawn. The offi
cers of the government do not even receive their
pay with any regularity, and several have resign
ed on that account. Appropriations for public
services on works of public utility can not be
collected, and decrees remain, in fact, null and
void. In the case of the appropriation of two
million dollara for the Emigration Bureau, the
decree announcing it was signed without any ex
act knowledge of the manner in which that
amount was to be procured, or any sign that it
Lvas to be supplied at all.
Tiie coolest operation yet, says the Augus
ta Chronicle, that has transpired in this vicinity,
took place on Friday afternoou. As Gen. King,
accompanied by his wife, and a gentleman named
Bailie and liis wife, were riding on one of the
roads leading from the city, about two miles out,
they were stopped and three of the horses taken
from them by highway robbers. The general
was riding with Mrs. B. in a buggy, aud Mr. B.
and Mrs. K. on horseback. The robbers permit
ted Mrs. K. to keep her horse. They also left
one of their own. Both the general and his
friend were unarmed. This certainly is the cool
cst operation yet.
Well may we inquire, “what next?” Nothing,
no matter how novel or how outrageous, will
surprise us.
The marriage of Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas to
General Robert Williams, U. S. A., says the
Washington Union, which lias been the occasion
of no little excitement in the fashionable world,
took place last evening at the residence of the
bride, Douglas Place, New Jersey avenue, Rev.
Father Lynch officiating, assisted by Rev. Father
McGuire, of Georgetown College. select com
pany of invited guests was present, including
Hon. Edwin M. Stanton and lady, General Grant
and lady, Hon. Thomas A. Scott and lady, and
many' oilier prominent civil and military digni
taries. We wish the happy couple all possible
joy. ^
The Government is doing a big business at
Fortress Monroe, says a letter from there. “Fifty
thousand dollars worth of machineiy put up
since 1 wrote you ; we do nothing but build gun
carriages. The fortress is being put on a strict
war footing. All the guns have been taken out
of the water batteiy, and the most approved
armament put in; nothing smaller than two hun
dred pound rifled guns now; no smooth-bored to
be used. Fort Wool is also progressing rapidly;
all tlic buildings on the point are to be taken
down, and I don’t know what all won’t be done
before the thing is completed.”
A Washington dispatch to the Cincinnati
Gazette says : While there is no question as to
the ultimate passage by the Senate of the negro
suffrage bill, there is a probability that it will be
amended by that body so as to make any inter
ference in. the elections here a misdemeanor,
punishable with a heavy fine and imprisonment.
Several of the Radical Senators express their
determination to iusist upon the adoption of
such a clause, and also a complete change in the
District registry laws.
A severe blow for our sister city of Colum
bus is contained in the following statement we
find in the Savannah Herald. “We learn that
orders have been received here for the imme
diate departure of four companies of the 103d
U. S. C. T., for Columbus, Ga. Two of the
companies a present stationed at Fort Pulaski,
and two now at Thomasville ipakc up the de-
taemnent, which will lie under the command of
Jl<>1. Bogart.”
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The Hon. Cuas. Sumner received a little
box at liis rooms in Washington some days ago,
containing a human finger (colored) accompani
ed by the following note :
‘You old sou of a , I send you a piece of
your friend’s finger. If your bill passes, I will
have a piece of your body. A Union Man.”
The Washington Qhroniele says no clue has
lieen discovered to the strange missive and its
still stranger accompaniment.
A Washington dispatch says: “It is under
stood that the Committee on Banking and Cur
rency ivill report unfavorably upon the petition
placing the notes of»the National Banks on the
same legal tender basis as greenbacks. The ten
per cent, tax on the late tuuiks will not be re
pealed, and all petitions having that object in
view will simply lie a waste of labor.”
“General” R. Clay Crawford, the filibuster,
was arrested at New Orleans, last Tuesday night,
by order of General Sheridan. Crawford was
on board the steamer Continental, bound for New
York. He w as consigned to Fort Jackson for
safe keeping.
There arc three millions slaves in Brazil, and
the Parliament is now occupied with the consi
deration of measures increasing their privileges,
bulking to emancipation as early us the interests
of the country will allow. The Government him
long been extremely desirous of putting an end
to the external slave trade, and its cruisers have
efleciually abolished it. The Brazilians are said
to be anxious to see slavery extinguished from
their shores.
Georgia legislature
OUS SPECIAL CORRESPOSDKSCE.
Mili-edgetillf., Jan. 35, 1866.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock, A. M.
Mr. Redding moved the reconsideration of the
action of the Senate on yesterday, fixing the
time of certain election. The motion prevailed.
The resolution was amended so as to bring on
the election of Judges of the Supreme Court on
Friday, 36th instant, and the election of United
States Senators on Tuesday next
The Senate resumed the consideration of the
bill to abolish the penitentiary system of punish
ment. Alter considerable discussion the bill was
lost by a vote 19 to 21.
Mr. Barwick introduced a bill to alter section
3188, of the code.
Mr. Dickey. A bill to incorporate the North
Georgia Mining and Manufacturing Company.
Mr. J. F. Johnson. A resolution declaring
tliat the change bills of the Westem and Atlantic
Roilroad shall be received for fare and freight on
said road.
Mr. Parriss. A bill to incorporate the Chero
kee Mining & Manufacturing Company, capi
tal stock $350,000, subject to increase to $5,000,-
000.
Mr. Quillian. A bill to incorporate the Ken-
nesaw Mining Company, capital stock $500,000,
may be increased to $5,000,000.
Mr. C. H. Smith. A bill to incorporate the
Home Insurance Company, of Atlanta.
Mr. Griffin. A bill to authorize Ordinaries to
issue letters testamentary in certain cases.
Mr v Byington was allowed to record his vote
in opposition to the bill abolishing the Peniten
tiary.
A resolution was referred to the Finance Com
mittee proposing to make arrangements for pay
ing the State’s tax of $500,000 to the United
States.
Mr. Butler’s resolution in regard to making
provision for the maintenance of old and decre-
pid colored persons, was referred to the Judicia
ry Committee.
The bill for the relief of the heirs of Alary A.
West, of Stewart county. She had left money
to be laid out in the purchase of negroes. An
amendment was offered to the bill making it
general, and the whole subject was made the or
der of the the day for Wednesday next.
The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House met at 9 o’clock and was opened
with prayer by the Chaplain.
After the journal was read, Mr. Kirby moved
that the regular order of the day to take up
the report of the special committee for the abol
ishment of the Penitentiary be dispensed with
for the present. The motion prevailed
Mr. Harrison, of Chatham, moved to take up
the resolution of the House fixing the hours of
meeting of the same. The motion did not pre
vail.
A message was received from the Governor
stating the need for provision by the Legislature
tor the payment of an additional Secretary in
the Executive Department. Referred to Com
mittee on Finance.
The message of the Governor received yester
day was taken up and read. The Governor
returns the bill for the incorporation of the Ga
zelle Fire Company and the Gazelle Hose Com
pany of the city of Augusta without approval.
The objection of the Governor is based upon the
unconstitutionality of such an approval.
The House proceeded to dispose ot bills on
third reading: A bill to change the time of meet
ing of Courts of Ordinary from the second Mon
day in Januaiy to the first. Passed. A bill to
compensate petit jurors in Wilcox county.—
Passed. A bill to allow the Superior Court of
Pulaski county to levy and collect a tax to
build a conrt house and jail in said county.—
Passed.
The House concurred in the Senate’s substi
tute for the resolution of the House bringing on
the election of Supreme Judges on Friday next,
the 36th, and that of United States Senators on
Tuesday next, the 30th.
A bill to regulate the distribution ot the com
mon school fund for the county of Echols. Re
ferred to Committee on Public Education. A
bill to authorize and require the Treasurer of
the State to make certain advances, and for other
purposes. It was amended by the Committe on
Finance to exclude the officers and clerks, and
as amended was passed. A hill to alter and
amend an act incorporating the town of Dawson,
in Terrell county. Passed. A bill to authorize
the sale of the exile camp, in Terrell county.—
Passed. A bill to regulate the rates of passage
and freight on the several railroads of this State,
and punish for a violation of the same. Passed.
A bill to alter and amend section 2102 ot article
3d, part 3d, cTxle to agree with section 1980.—
Passed. *
The House then adjourned till 9 o’clock to
morrow. N.
SENATE.
Mili.edokvii.le, January 26,1866.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock A. M., and after
prayer and reading of the journal, on being noti
fied, they repaired to the Representative Hall for
the election of Judges of the Supreme Court.
After the election was over they retired to their
chamber, and on motion adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and
prayer was offered. The journal was read.
Mr. Glenn, of Whitfield, gave notice that he
would call for a reconsideration of so much of the
journal as relates to the passage of the bill rela
ting to the Dalton Medical College. The motion
prevailed.
Mr. Hardeman, of Bibb, moved to reconsider
so much of the journal as relates to the fixing of
the rates of passage and freight on the several
Railroads of the State. The motion was lost.
Mr, Dodson, of Catoosa. A bill to pardon Cor-
ra T. Wild, from the Penitentiary.
new matter.
Mr. Dart, of Glynn. A bill to repeal certain
acts; also a bill to. authorize the Trustees of
Glynn County Academy to sell the Academy,
and to protect the property of the same; also a
bill to repeal an act incorporating the town of-
Brunswick.
Mr. Alexander, of Houston. A bill to amend
section 349 ot the Code of Georgia.
Mr. McCullough of Jones. A bill to transler
the power ot control of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad to commissioners elected by the peo
ple.
Mr. Frazier of Liberty. A bill to exempt the
counties of Liberty and McIntosh from State tax
for the year 1S66.
Mr. Johnson of Pierce. A bill to amend the
act incorporating the town of Blackshear in the
county of Pierce.
Mr. Stewart of Spalding. A bill to require
cost to be paid in advance in certain cases.
Mr. Asbury of Taliaferro. A bill to regulate
the liquor traffic in Taliaferro county.
Mr. Ridley of Troup presented a petition from
O. A. Bull, of the county of Troup, asking pay
ment of bis salary—$4,000—as Judge of the Su
perior Court. Referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
Mr. Sumner of Ware. A bill to authorize the
Justice of the Peace of District to hold-jus-
tices courts at Glennmore, on the Gulf Railroad.
Mr. Cabaniss of Monroe. A bill to authorize
the Judges of the Inferior Court to designate
place of holding theit courts iu the counties where
the court houses have been destroyed.
Mr. Williams of Bulloch. A bill to autltorize
the Justices of the Inferior Court to levy aud col
lect a tax to build a court house and bridges in
said connty.
Mr. Harrison of Chatham. A bill to authorize
Chatham Academy and Free School to sell their
interest in certain lands.
Bills on third reading passed: a bill to make
all civil soils, writs, and processes returnable to
the October term of the Superior Court of Hous
ton county, returnable to the February term, of
1866; a bill to alter and amend the road laws of
this State, changing the Code of Georgia to our
altered condition, socially—all whites liable to
road duty from the ages of 18 and 45, and color
ed persons from 16 to 60.
The hour for the election, by the General As
sembly, of Supreme Judges having arrived
Messrs. Benning, Lyon and Walker were put
in nomination for the long term.
On the first ballot Benning received 70; Lyon
50; Walker 78.
On the second ballot Running received 87;
Walker 95; Lyon 19.
On the third ballot the name of Judge Lyon
was withdrawn by Mr. Lawson, of Putnam.—
The third ballot resulted as follows: Benning 78;
Walker 104. Judge Walk A was declared duly
elected.
The General Assembly then proceeded to bal
lot for Judge of the Supreme Court for the short
term, when the names of&E Clark, L L. Har
ris, Hiram Warner, John Schley and Barnard Hill
were put in nomination
The first ballot resulted as follows: Harris 84;
Warner 59; Schley 18; R. H. Clark 33, and
Barnard Hill 19.
On the second ballot Harris 103 ; Warner 55;
Schley 11; R. H. Clark 23; Barnard Hill 12 —
J udge Harris was declared duly elected.
The House adjourned till 10 o’clock to-mor
row. N.
Milledgevtlle, Jan. 37,1866.
SENATE.
The Senate met 10 o’clock, A. M.
Mr. Turner moved to reconsider tl\e bill, lost
on yesterday, for the relief of Arthur Hutchin
son. Passed.
The bill to punish seduction with death, was
laid on the table for the present.
Mr. J. A. W. Johnson offered a resolution for
the appointment of a joint committee of the two
Houses, to visit Stone Mountain to see what ar
rangements can be made for the establishment of
a State Penitentiary at that place.
Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Mims
and Gresham lor a few days.
Mr. Bedford introduced a bill to define and
punish capital and minor offenses, when commit
ted by persons of color. The bill defines as cap
ital offenses punishable with death ; insurrection
or attempting to excite it; poisoning, or attempt
ing to poison; rape on white, or colored females;
assault on a white person with attempt to kill;
maiming; burglary; arson of any description;
murder of any person; robbery by open force.—
The bill provides to punish minor offenses with
corporal punishment, in the judgment of the
court.
Mr. Brown. A bill to provide for the payment
of officers presiding at the polls.
Mr. Owens. A bill to repeal section 2635 of
the Code and to substitute another therefor.
Mr. Strozier. A bill te incorporate the town
of Smithville.
Bills were then read a second time, and House
bills the first time.
The Senate, on motion of Mr. Redding, ad
joumed till 104 o’clock, Monday morning.
HOUSE.
The House met at 9 o’clock. Prayer by the
Chaplain and the journal read.
Mr. Dorsey, of Hall, moved to re-cousider so
much of the journal as relates to the fixing the
ages of persons subject to road duty. The mo
tion prevailed.
Mr. Pottle, of Warren, moved to take up the
bill in relation to Willis Wynn, of the connty of
Warren. The motion prevailed, and the bill was
withdrawn.
Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Brown
of Houston, and Ford of Worth, for a few days
on important business.
Bills on third reading were taken up.
A bill to fix the salaries of Judges and other
officers in the State of Georgia. On motion to
strike out $500 as salary of the Attorneys and
Solicitors General and insert $325, the yeas and
nays were called, and resulted in yeas 74 and
nays 74—the Speaker voting in the negative the
motion was lost. Under this bill the salary of
Judges of the Supreme Court is fixed at $3,500;
Judges of Superior Courts $3,500; Solicitors
General $500. Salary of Secretaries of the Exec
utive Department $1800, and salary of Gover
nor’s Messenger $950.
Eor the relief of T. W. Fleming and all others
similarly situated. Alter a lengthy debate the
previous question was called for and sustained,
and the bill put upon its passage and lost.
new'MATTER.
By Mr. Ridley of Troup. A bill to prevent
the spread of small pox in this State.
Leave of absence wias granted Mr. Hollis of
Marion.
House adjourned till 9 o’clock Monday morn
ing. N.
“Poll Drew” to America.
The New York correspondent of the London
Spectator tells the following pleasant tale:
“The same woman will be at the opera on one
evening in full dress in a private box, at the next
performance in the stalls or the parquette, with
arms, shoulders and head all uncovered. A lady
whom I knew had rather an unpleasant experi
ence in an attempt some years ago to disregard
the tacit understanding among the sex in regard
to dinner dress at hotels. She belonged to an
ultra-fashionable set, and having married a South
Carolina planter, soon adopted what we call
‘plantation manners,’ and affected no little scorn
of simple-mannered, reserved New England folks.
She was at Newport, our great sea-side watering-
place, and having just returned from Europe,
took great airs upon herself. One evening, at
the tea-table, a gentleman sat down near ber,
and the butter-plate before him happening to have
no butter-knife by it at the moment, he, instead
of calling the waiter and waiting for one to lie
brought, used his own perfectly fresh, bright
knife to take a bit of butter. . He was a man of
culture and social standing, but a Yankee, and
one whose social pretensions sLe wished to flout.
She seized the opportunity, and calling a waiter,
said, in an elaborately subdued, but decided tone,
‘Take away that butter. The gentleman has had
his knife in it’ He took no notice of the remark
which drew all eyes upon him and upon the lady;
but by and by she stretched out her hand
and took from the plate some chipped dried
beef, which stood between her and her vic
tim. This was well enough, of course; but
he turned at once, and, calling a waiter, said,
only as if he were asking for more tea, ‘Take
away that dried beef, this lady has had her fin
gers in it.’ In the encounter, such as it was, he
was thought to have had the best of it, and she
did not forgive or forget. So a few days after
wards (1 should have mentioned that there was
the slightest possible acquaintance between them)
they being at dinner, she conspicuous in the full
dress she had adopted since her tour to Europe,
aud which was so very ‘full’ that it would have
attracted attention uider any circumstances, took
one from a dish of fresh figs before her, and put
ting it on a plate, handed It to him with an ex
pression of complaisance, but saying in a tone of
unmistakable significance, which could be heard
all around her, ‘A fig for you, sir.’ He accepted
it graciously, and taking in his turn a leaf from
the garniture of the dish, offered it to her with
‘A fig-leaf for yon, madam.’ She fled the table,
and kept her room until her intended victim left
the hotel. It was generally agreed that he had
done what a gentleman would shrink from do
ing, but the provocation was snch that he was
held guiltless of offense, and applauded for his
wit; aud nobody, except, perhaps a few of her
slaveholding friends, pitied her. This is the last
instance that I know ot, of a lady's appearance
in full dress at a public table. But I am told that
within the last three years it is coming more in
fashion among' the ‘fastest’ sets at the bight of
the season at Saratoga, and one or two others of
onr great watering plains.’
Ludicrous Incident.—One evening recently,
Miss Mary Meredith, in preparing the articles of
dress necessary for her impersonation of Panline,
in the “Lady of Lyons,” at the Newbem, (N. C.)
theatre, accidentally omitted to put into her bas
ket a pair of shoes. Site did not discover the
omission until after sh‘e reached the theatre, and
was nearly ready to go on. There was time to
repair the error if the little darkey who waited
upon her would hurry back to her lodgings and
get them at once, so the servant was immediately
sent. But the curtrin rose on the first act before
the lirtle darkey returned, and Beauseant, (Mr.
Rogers,) was doing tiie agreeable in his best style
to the fair Pauline, (Miss Meredith) when he and
the audience were both somewhat surprised by
the appearance on tiie stage of a character not
mentioned in the bills. It wps the little negro,
who advancing across the stage to where Pauline
was sitting, presented the shoes, neatly wrapped
np, saying, “I run all de way. Miss Maiy, hut I
guess dese is uni!”
It is needless to say the "bouse” screamed.
;th Throsch Northern Spectacles.
We have no patience with itinerant correspon
dents, yet that our readers may see how we are
viewed by Northern men—at least, such of them
who travel among us and write letters back to
their papers—we publish the following speci
men. This letter clearly exhibits decided sec
tional preconceptions, which impart a spirit of
unfairness to bis ideas and statements; while at
the same time he shows a disposition to deal
foiriy with the South so far as he is capable of
understanding us. The letter is sent from Rich
mond to the New York Times. It says:
So far a correct opinion of “Southern feeling”
is almost an absolute impossibility, tor it is as
changeable as the coast tide, now funning high
over the grounds of loyalty, and again receding
to the dark ocean of treason. Much depends
upon the person seeking to develop it, for, as
would naturally be expected, the people here are
veiy sore on matters connected with the history
of the past five years and their bearing on the
present. Commence tout inquiries with the
word rebel, and ten to Sne you Avill find yourself
talking to a rebel; while,’if you use the word
Confederate or Southerner, you will nearly al
ways discover conservative opinions. Speak of
Mr. Sumner or Thad. Stevens, and you will lie
overwhelmed with an avalanche of expletives
denouncing the whole North as blood-thirsty vi
olators of the constitution ; which, however, is
readily changed to commendation, and advances
toward concuiation by the mere mention of Pre
sident Johnson and his beneficent policy. A
“Red Republican” is greeted here with exhibi
tions of disloyalty, engendered by dislike; but a
supporter of the President will find boon fide ev
idences of a contrary condition, and it is most
always kindly received. President Lincoln’s
name is rarely mentioned here, and I have never
heard it brought forward in a disrespectful man
ner by a sober man. The Emancipation Procla
mation, the Freedmcn’s Bureau, and other con
comitants of the war, elicit various phases of
wrath and praise, but there is always a qualifi
cation of submission to the will oi the “powers
tliat be.” Gen. Grant is respected with a respect
different from that which is rendered as homage
to a successful man, for he is considered a mag
nanimous conqueror, who bus been consistent in
his magnanimity from the surrender of Lee up
to the present time. Jeff. Davis and other lead-
era of the rebellion are looked upon in a differ
ent light by different people; but the desire for
tbeir unconditional pardon is almost unanimous.
Lee, Johnston and Stonewall Jackson are loved
by the entire people, and the latter is always
spoken of as a true representative man of the
South.
The number of original Union men in Virgi
nia is claimed to have been large; but it is cer
tain that the number who stood out for their
principles to the bitter end was insignificant, and
aid not include much ot the State. It is said that
Virginia honestly tried to act the part of media
tor at the commencement of the struggle, and
that the great majority of her citizens reluctantly
left the Union, when forced out by the first call
for troops. This same statement is to be heard
in every Southern State east of the Mississippi,
except South Carolina, and in all those States it
will be seen that the sirnon pare Unionists are
hated, more or iess, by those who engaged in the
war. All praise to the staunch and true, though
few they are, who suffered for tlieir principles, as
the Unionists in the South only have suffered, and
it is their great misfortune that they were not able
to keep control of their State governments. As
it is they have been set aside, and the majority
who now have the upper hand treat them with a
bitterness and rancor of feeling which would nat
urally lead an observer to the belief tliat they are
criminals. But this treatment of Union men is
influenced more by personal enmity than any
thing else, and has but little bearing as regards
the principles of the victims. There are, most
assuredly, those who are inclined to persecute
Union men on account of their loyalty, but they
are few in numbers, and are, for the most part,
contemptible, hot-headed fanatics, who have but
a small influence. In short, the W r ar men of the
Soutli are jealous of the native Union men be
cause they were not whipped witli them, and
the majority seem to have an idea that they were
craven-hearted, when, in fact, it required more
true courage to breast the tide of public opinion
than to go with it.
It is too much tiie general inclination of the
North to suppose that because a man lias been a
rebel, he is one now. Unwittingly many good
men do violence to common humanity by such
hasty judgment. Because a man has lost a law
suit, there is no reason why he should not submit
to the decision of the court. Although he may
tkink that the decision is unjust, be will, if lie
is not a fanatic, acquiesce, and grin and bear
his supposed wrongs. So it is In the South. All,
except the fanatics, are obedient to the will of
the government, and the overpowering decision
of the arbitrament of arras. I do not pretend to
say that the so-called principles of the rebellion
have been whipped out of the minds of the peo
ple, for such a thing is impossible. Tbeir convic
tions as to right and wrong remain undisturbed,
and will until they go to tlieir graves. Regarding
States Rights, I think that the opinions enter
tained by the thinking masses previous to the
war still predominate in their minds; but I do
not hesitate to predict that the majority are wil
ling to abandon them in the future as matters
finally adjudicated by the war, and that no at
tempt will ever again be made, based on the doc
trine of secession, for any object whatever, lie
guiding the freedman, the people of the South
have tried, and probably will continue to try, to
secure as much power over them as they can,
and in doing so, will of course, resort to rounda
bout means, and perhaps oppressive laws, therein
following an example prominently brought be
fore them in the far-fetched theorizing of the np
holders ot the territorial theory. Nevertheless
there is a liberal spirit, generated by pity for the
unfortunate freedmen, which will always oppose
itself •against injustice toward them, and attempt
to advance and alleviate their condition.
Regarding the rebellion, the reconstructed par
ticipants see nothing in it which they are ashamed
of, so far as mere fighting is concerned; but they
take pains to cover up and palliate the dark
spots of the record. The burning of Richmond,
the disgraceful horrors of Andereonville, Belle
Island and Libby Prison are subjects rarely talked
of, and although there was a generally expressed
sympathy throughout the whole South for Wirz
when lie was executed, it requires no great
amount of discernment to see that, if the execu
tion had not cast discredit upou their lost cause,
the people would have unanimously applauded
it. The trial of Davis is p irticularly obnoxious
to them, liecause it will unearth the shameful im
becility and crifelty of tbeir attempted govern
ment. There is but little sympathy for him as a
man, but as the representative of tlieir defunct
Confederacy, they will dislike to see him held to
account for the treason in which they were par
ticipants.
The fact that the people of the South have, by
their lailure in what they are pleased to style
“the revolution,” become criminals in the sight
of the law, is humiliating, and the natural se
quence of tlieir Criminality—application for par
don—is a blow to tlieir pride, from which ttiey
are slowly recovering. The anxiety to obtain
pardons, however, ig somewhat abated by the
uncertain condition in which the Southern States
find themselves since the meeting of Congress.
The future, politically speaking, of the South is
undoubtedly clouded, and exerts an influence
which is anything but conducive to restoration,
by fostering the feeling of despondency produced
by the termination of the war, and there are
many who seem to have lost all interest in public
affairs. It is an ordinary thing here to hear men
declare that they will never vote again. How
long tliis feeling will last, I do not pretend to
say, but certain it is that it exists now.
None save prejudiced and interested observers
will pretend to deny the existence of a deep and
unconquered feeling of animosity' against the
government on the part of some of the South
ern people. • It is to be found in a certain class
of men. But this disaffected and disloyal ele
ment does not comprise a large number of peo
ple, and does include most of tiie “bomb-proofs,”
and exempts from active service during the war.
Thev are the “fanatics” who do not submit to
the decision.
The President’s Family.—A Washington
letter, speaking of the family now at the White
House, says:
I assure you that Andrew Johnson wears the
Presidential robes as gracefully as any of his
and both of his daughters are pop
ular here on account of their unostentatious man
ners, modest disposition and perfect good taste.
Mrs. Patterson, the elder, and wife of the able
and amiable Senator, is particularly popular, be
cause, perhaps, better known than her younger
sister. Her husband has made hosts of friends
everywhere. In fact, since the dismissal of Gen.
Massey, who was not generally liked, the White
House family has increased in lavor every day
among citizens and visitors.
Another letter furnishes the following inci
dent:
The President’s two daughters—Mrs. Patter
son. and Mrs. Stover—were modest in their ap
pearance, yet were not overwhelmed by the
splendor of tlieir position. Everybody is prais
ing them for tbeir simplicity and naturalness.—
One of the most prominent of the fashionable
women of Washington called upon them one day
last week, and was talking over the winter and
its prospects with Mrs. Pattereon, when she re
marked: “We are plain people, from the moun
tains of Tennessee, and we shall not put on airs
because we chance to occupy this place fora
short time.” This, certainly, was nobly said.
National Banka.
The creation of National Banks is derived from
a law of Congress, approved in June, 1864, and
entitled the National Currency Act. The first
section of the act establishes a separate bureau
in the Treasury Department, at the head of which
an officer presides, who is denominated the Comp
troller of the Currency. The sole office oi that
functionary is to supervise the conduct of the
banks, inaugurated under this law, to sec that
they do not transgress the regulations imposed
on them, and to visit upon them, if they do, the
penalties prescribed.
Section five ordains that all associations under
the act shall be composed of not less than five
persons. Those thus acting, shall make an or
ganization certificate, which shall specify—* irat:
The name assumed by such association, which
shall be subject to the approval of the comptrol
ler Second, The place where iffc operations
shall be conducted: Third, The amount of its
capital stock, and-the number ot shares into
which the same shall be divided. Fourth, l he
names and places of residence of the sharehold
ers, and the number of shares held by each.
The certificate shall be acknowledged before a
Jud*»e or Notary Public, and sent, duly authenti
cated, to the comptroller, who shall place the
same on record.
In a town whose population is not over six
thousand, an association may be organized under
tills act, with a capital ot* not less than tiny thou-
sand dollars. Otherwise, the minimum is not
under one hundred thousand dollars, and in a
city with a population exceeding fifty thousand
persons, the capital cannot be less than two hun
dred thousand dollars.
The natural duration of such associations shall
be twenty years. They may be sooner dissolved,
cither by forfeit of franchise or the voluntary ac
tion of shareholders.
The affairs of every association must be man
aged by at least five directors, oneot whom shall
lie the president. Each director shall possess,
in liis own right, at least ten shares of the capi
tal stock, and declare on oath, that said shares
are not pledged, or in anywise hypothecated for
any debt or loan. Should lie cease at any time
to own the requisite amount of stock, be shall
thereby vacate his office as director.
Capital stock shall be divided into shares of
one hundred dollars, and be deemed as personal
property. Every shareholder shall be held indi
vidually responsible, equally and ratably, and
not one for another, in all contracts, debts, and
engagements ot his association, to the amount of
his stock at its par value.
Banks may increase tlieir capital from time to
time. The maximum of such increase shall be
determined by the comptroller in the articles of
association, and no increase shall be valid until
the whole amount of such increase shall be paid
in, and notice thereof transmitted to the Comp
troller, and liis approval received. They may
also reduce tlieir capital, but never below the
amount required by the currency act tor their
outstanding circulation, nor until the pressed
reduction shall have been submitted to the Comp
troller, and obtained his vise.
At least fifteen per cent, ot the capital stock
shall be paid in before business can commence,
and the remainder of such capital must be paid
in installments of ten percent, each on the whole
amount of the capital, as frequently as one in
stallment each month, from the time the Comp
troller shall authorize the commencement of
business.
Before its inauguration, every association shall
transfer and deliver to the Treasurer of tiie Uni
ted States registered bonds of the Uuited States,
bearing interest, to an amount not less than one-
third of the capital stock paid in. This pro
portion is to be rigorously enforced, so that in
whatever act, either of expansion or reduction,
the banks will be required to have always on
band bonds to the extent of onc-third of the
stock actually paid in.
The bonds thus deposited shall be held by tho
Treasurer of the United States for the associa
tions delivering them, and no transfer of such
bonds by the Treasurer shall be valid until the
transfer is countersigned by the comptroller of
the currency. The latter must keep a strict re
cord of all such transfers, and give prompt ad
vice of the same to the association from whom
the bonds transferred originated.
Upon delivery to the Treasurer of the required
amount, and character of bonds, the bank so de
livering shall receive from the comptroller circu
lating notes (engraved under his direction) of
different denominations, iu blank, registered aud
countersigned by himself and the Treasurer.
The amount in notes thus issued shall not exceed
ninety per cent, of the amount of the bonds de
posited, at the par value thereof, if bearing iu
terest at the rate of five per cent, per annum
and in no case shall the sum of such notes is
sued to any association exceed the amount of its
capital stock actually paid in.
Such notes, after having been properly signed
by the President and Cashier of the Rank to
whom they are given, shall be received at par
everywhere in the United States in payment of
taxes, excises, lands and all other dues to the
Government except duties on imports ; and also
fora all salaries and other debts owing by the
United States to creditors within its territory,
except interest on the public debt and in redemp
tion of the national currency. These notes, if
worn or mutilated, shall be received by the Comp
troller ; and if destroyed he shall, upon proof of
destruction, re-place to the Bank to whom they
belonged blank notes of an equal amount.
Whenever the market value of any bonds (le
posited under this act with the Treasurer of the
United States shall be reduced in value below
the amount of circulation issued for the same
the Comptroller is empowered to demand from
the association which deposited them the amount
of such depreciation in other United States bonds
at cash value.
The loans of banks under this act shall at no
time exceed one-tenth of the amount of the capi
tal stock paid. This will satisfactorily interpret
the scant margin of which so much complaint
has lieen made.
The rate of interest permitted shall be regula
ted by the laws of the State wherein the associa
tion may reside. If not fixed by such laws the
act allows a rate of interest of seven per cent,
per annum. Any infraction of this provision
shall work a forfeiture of interest, and the party
suffering from such usury may recover double
the amount of interest so exacted.
Every Association under this act, shall have
on hand at all times lawful money of the United
States, fifteen or twenty-five per cent., (differing
in different cities of the Union,) of the aggregate
of its notes in circulation and its deposits. Any
bank failing to make good this reserve for thirty
days after haring been notified to do so by the
Comptroller, is liable to have its business sum
marily wound up.
Every National Bank is compelled to receive
in payment of all debts due it, the notes of any
other similar institution.
Quarterly reports exhibiting, under oath, the
resources and liabilities of the banks, shall be
made to the Comptroller*under pain of one hun
dred dollars forfeit, for every five days delay in
making them at the proper times.
If any Association should refuse to redeem
one of it notes when presented, in lawful curren
cy, the party presenting the same may have it
protested and forwarded to the Comptroller.—
On the receipt of such protest, the Comptroller
with the consent of the Treasurer, may appoint
a special agent to investigate the refusal. Should
the fate of such refusal be verified, the Comp
troller shall declare within thirty days thereafter
that the U. S. bonds and securities pledged by
the recusant association, are forfeited to the Uni
ted States. Holders of the circulation ot such
bauk, shall then be notified to present it at the
Treasury of the United States, where it will be
redeemed in lawful currency. The Comptroller
shall furthermore appoint a receiver --under
bond and security—whose duty it will be to put
such bank in liquidation and legally wind up its
affairs. Under this commission all acts done in
contemplation of solvency, which may be preju
dicial to the creditors of the bank, shall be de
clared null aud void.
Any officer connected r.’itli such organizations,
who may be guilty of misdemeanor in his office,
shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprison
ment for not less than five, and not more than
ten years.
The foregoing includes all of the salient points
which enter into the composition of our Na
tional Bank system. It occurs to us, that assum
ing the basis ot this system to be impregnable, it
provides every check, guard and balance, wbicli
the most jealous wisdom could suggest. It is
necessary to bear in mind, however, wliat this
basis is. It is neither less, nor more, than the
credit of the general Government. Now', with
regard to the permanent soundness of that credit,
it is due to candor to state that widely divergent
opinions prevail. Many consider it sufficiently
fortified to resist successfully all the influences
which assail it. On tiie other hand, not a few'
believe that it is a dead sea-frnit, which may at
any moment turn to ashes on our lips. The re
port of the Secretary of the Treasury furnishes
all the attainable information on tlic point.
If an inspection of its statement* should sat
isfy them about the preliminary and vital ques
tion of the National credit, we have no hesita
tion iu saying, on behalf of the banks, that we
are acquainted with no scheme of paper curren
cy, which combines so much to approve with so
little to condemn. While, therefore, it is obvious
that nothing could be more foreign from our pur
pose than to aim any reflection against the sol
vency of our National Banks, we would not at
the same time be regarded as strewing flowers
over tlic possible pitfalls which inhere in all sys
tems of currency whose promises to j>ay are not
at the will of their holder convertible into gold.
The necessity, however, which at present obtains
to the South for the immediate employment of
every dollar which may come into her possession
extracts from these cautionary suggestions most
of their practical significance. It is only when
a currency becomes the receptacle of permanent
investments that it appears in its most ominous
phase, and, so far as the Southern people are
concerned, hoarding is not a practice which is at
all imminent.
From the foregoing our readers are as well
prepared to judge of the expediency or inexpe
diency of exchanging their lands, and other prop
erty, for the existing circulation as we could ad
vise,—Memphis Appeal.
TIia Postage Law.
For the convenience oi our readers, many of
whom are uninformed as to the present postal
rates, we extract and prepare the following front
the existing regulations, as published in the Uni
ted States Mail —Petersburg Index.
LKTTF.H POSTAGE—PRE-PAYMENT.
. The law requires tlic postage on all letters to
be pre-paid by stamps or stamped envelopes—
payment in money being prohibited. All drop let
ters must also lie pre-pakl. The only letters on
which payment is not demanded are those ad
dressed to the President, Vice President, mem
bers of Congress and letters on official business to
the chiefs of the executive departments of the
Government, tiie heads of bureaux, chief clerks,
and others invested with tlic franking privilege.
RATES.
The rate of letter postage is three cents per
half ounce throughout the United States, and
three cents lor each additional Half ounce or
fraction thereof. The ten cent Pacific rate is
abolished.
The rate of postage on drop letters is two ceuta
Iter half ounce or fraction thereof, at all offices
where free delivery by carrier is established —
Where such free delivery is not established, the
rate is one cent.
NEWSPAPER POSTAGE.
The following is the postage on new'spapers
when sent from the office of publication to regu
lar subscribers:
Postage on Daily Papers to subscribers, when
pre paid quarterly or yearly in advance, either at
the mailing office or office ot delivery, per quar
ter, 85 cents; six times per week per quarter, 30
cents; for Tri-Weekly per quarter, 15 cents; tor
Semi-Weekly per quarter, 10 cents; for Weekly
per quarter, 5 cents.
Weekly newspapers (one copy only) sent by
the publisher to actual subscribers within the
county where printed and published, free.
quarterly payments.
Quarterly postage cannot be paid for less than
three months. If a subscription begins at any
other time than the commencement of an official
quarter, the postage received by the postmaster
must still be entered in bis account of that quar
ter. Subscribers for short terms—exceeding three
months, say four or five months—can pay quar
terly postage for the actual terms ot tlieir sub
scriptions—tliat is tor one quarter and a third, one
quarter and two thirds, &c. The law’ only re
quires that at least one quarter’s postage shall lie
pre-paid, and not more than one year’s postage.
Any term between one quarter and one year can
therefore lie pre-paid at proportionate rates. Sub
scribers can pay their postage for a fraction of a
quarter at the same rate as for a w'hole quarter,
by including the fraction with the next whole
quarter, and paying/or both in advance.
PRIVILEGES TO PUBLISHERS.
Publishers of newspapers and periodicals may
send to each other from their respective offices of
publication, free of postage, one copy of each
publication, and may also send to each actual
subscriber, inclosed in 'their publications, bills
and receipts for the same, free of postage. They
may also state on their respective publications,
the date when the subscription expires, to be
written or printed.
SMALL PAPERS.
Religious, Educational and Agricultural News
papers of small size, issued less frequently than
once a week, may be sent in packages to one ad
dress at the rate of one cent for each package
not exceeding four ounces in weight, and an ad
ditional charge of one cent is made for eacli ad
ditional four minces, or fraction thereof, the post
age to be paid quarterly or yearly in advance.
news-dealers.
Ncw-dealers may send newspapers and peri
odicals to regular subscribers at the quarterly
rates, in the same manner as publishers, and may
also receive them from publishers at subscribers’
rates. In both cases the postage to be pre-paid,
either at the mailing or delivery office.
POSTAGE on TRANSIENT MATTER—BOOKS AND
CIRCULARS.
Books, not over 4 oz. in weight, to one address,
4 cents ;• over 4 minces, and not over 8 ounces, 8
cents; over 8 ounces, and not over 12 ounces, 12
cents; over 13 ounces, and not over 16 ounces.
16 cents.
Circulars, not exceeding three in number, to
one address, 2 cents; over three, and not over
six, 4 cents; over six, and not over nine, 6 cents;
TJVer nine, and not exceeding twelve, 8 cents.
miscellaneous.
On miscellaneous mailable matter, embracing
all pamphlets, occasional publications, transient
newspapers, hand-bills and posters, book manu
scripts and proof-sheets, whether corrected or no/
maps, prints, engravings, sheet music, blanks,
flexible patterns, samples and sample cards, pho
tographic paper, le^pr envelopes, postal envel
opes or wrappers, cards, paper, plain or ornamen
tal, photographic representations of different
types, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots and scions, the
postage to be prepaid by stamps, is, on one pack
age to one address, not over four ounces in w r eight,
two cents; over four ounces, and not over eight
ounces, four cents; over eight ounces, and not
over twelve ounces, six cents; over twelve ounces,
and not over sixteen ounces, eight cents.
now TO BE WRAPPED.
All mail matter not sent at letter rates of post
age embracing books, book-manuscripts, prooP
sheets, and other printed matter, and all other
mail matter, except seeds, must be so wrapped or
enveloped with open sides or ends as to enable
the postmaster to examine the package without'
destroying the wrapper, otherwise such packages
must be rated with letter postage. No commu
nication, whether in writing or in print, can be
sent with any seeds, roots, cuttings, or scions,
maps, engravings or othsr matter not printed,
except upon the separate payment of postage
upon each separate matter, at the established
rates.
CLUBS.
Where packages of newspapers or periodicals
are received at any post office directed to one ad
dress and the names of the club of subscribers to
which they belong, with the postage for a quar
ter in advance shall be banded to the postmaster,
lie shall deliver the same to their respective own
ers. But this does not apply to weekly newspa
pers, which circulates free in the county where
printed jind published.
PRE PAYMENT OF TRANSIENT MATTER.
All transient matter must be pre-paid by stamps.
But if it comes to the office of delivery without
pre-payment, or short paid, the unpaid postage
must be collected on delivery, at double the pre
paid rate.
Great neglect exists in the strict quarterly pre
payment of postage on printed matter sent to
regular subscribers. No such paper should be
delivered unless it is either pre-paid at the mail
ing office, or at the delivery office for at least a
quarter. If not so pre-paid, postmasters must
collect postage on each copy as on transient mat
ter. If they fail they will bo charged with the
full postage due, and in clear cases removed from
office for neglect.
WRITING ON NEWSPAPERS.
To inclose or conceal a letter, or other thing,
(except bills and receipts for subscription,) in, or
to write or print anything, after its publication,
upon any newspaper, pamphlet or magazine, or
other printed matter, is illegal, and subjects such
printed matter, and the entire package of which
it is a part, to letter postage.
Any word or communication, whether by
printing, writing marks or signs, upon the cover •
or wrapper of a newspaper, pamphlet, magazine
or other printed matter, other than the name and
address of the person to whom it is to be sent,
and the date when subscription expires, subjects
the package to letter postage.
Tiie Albany Argus tells the following about
the negro: “This interesting personage gives
trouble even in Massachusetts, where compara
tively they have but few of them. Thus we learn
that Frederick Douglas indignantly left a hotel
in Portland, Massachusetts, the other day, be
cause lie was not allowed to take bis meals with
the other guests of the evening. In the course
of liis lecture in the evening, lie said it was the
only indignity he had ever received in Massachu
setts, and proceeded to give the Bonifiice a ter
rible cutting up. The proper remedy is to refuse
Sumner and Wilson seats in Congress, and to
disfranchise Massachusetts untill she docs justice
to the negro. A district school at Altica, very
full, and very prosperous, under the superinten
dence of a lady teacher of superior qualifications:
and of high reputation as a successful tutor, re
ceived an addition in the shape of a little negro,
hoy. The little chap had been presented to the
M. C. for the district, and by him to the village,
and by the village to the school. The trusteed
did not want him. They were loyal, but they
sent him away. An appeal was immediately
made to the County Commissioner, and also to-
State Superintendent Rice; both of these digni
taries, as a matter of course, and as everybody '
might know, decided that the boy must go to
sebon]! The consequence is the white children,
are gradually falling off, and in all probability
will ultimately evacuate the school.”
The ^ iceroy of Egypt—extravagant old hoy-
lias ordered in Paris two buckles for his vice
regal belt which will cost $800,000.