Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-01-04
an ounce, when so unpaid, the sum
Of five cents.


Sec. 2, And be il further enacted,
There shall be charged on each news
paper, OF no greater size than nine
teen hundred square inches, trans.
mitted through The mails from the
etfiee of publication 20 any place out
OF the State where published, The
sum OF one cent; and for any such
newspaper delivered within the State
where published, the sum of one half
cent; and each newspaper of larger
dimensions than above specifed,
shall be charged with an additional
rate for each additional nineteen hun
dred square inches or fractions there
of. And all pamphlets, periodicals.,
magazines, and every other descrip-
ton OF printed matter, Except news
papers) which shall be unconnected
with any manuscript or written mat
ter, and which ii is or may be lawful
TO transmit through the mails of the
United States, shall be chargeabie
with postage atthe rate of two cents
for each copy sent of no greater
weight thar one ounce, and one cent
in addition i.r each additional ounce
or fraction of an ounce. Bound books
not weighing over thirty twosounces
shall be deemed maiable matter un-
der the foregoing provisions, any
thing in the fifteenth section of the
act approved March third, eighteen
hundred and forty five, to the contra
ry Notwithstanding.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted,
That the directors ofthe mints in the
United States are authorised and re-
CURED to coin pieces of the value of
three cents. composed oftaree parts
silver and one part alloy, which shall
be lawful tender for all debts due
to the government of the United
States, and 10 individual persons, Or
CU'pUI utiUnS.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted
1t shall be the duty of the Postmaster
Generol to provide and furnish to all
deputy postmasters, and other per-
sons applying and paying therefor,
suitable stamps of the denomination
of three cents, to facilitate he pre-
payment of the postages provided for
in this act. And to any person who
shall desire to opurchase of the Post
master General, or Of any deputy
postmaster at any one time 9n a
mount of stamps to the value of
fifty dollars or upwards, such stamps
shall be fcrnished al a discount often
per cent upon their par value. All
deputy postmasters who shall receive
at any one time stamps to the amount
of fifty dollars shall be allowed a de-
duction Of ten per cent upon theirpar
value.
Sec. 5. And be ii further enacted,
That there is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, the sum of
one million five. hundred thousand
dollars, to supply any deficiency that
may arise in the Post Office Depart
ment. 81
New PLATFoRM.-Some of the
Submissionists in Georgia defend the
late acts of Conaress, the Federal
Government and the Union general
ly, by asserting that The price of cot
ton was high, and the people had
plenty TO eat.
We suppose these gentlemen will
be out soon with new PLATFORM
They will be silent about territorial
rights, abolition of slavery in the
District, Of the slave trade between
the States and slavery in the States,
or about any of their political rights
in the Union, but pledge themselves
10 resist at all hazards, and to the
last extremity, when cotton falls to
five cents a pound, when bacon and
hominy become scarce, and when
their coats are out at the elbow
They will resist no breaches of the
Constitution, nor breaches of faith,
nor ofany kind but breaches into their
brceches pockets Southern Press.
There we're three things that the
Georgia Convention were afraid to
do-all of which its friends, beforeit
assmbled, said it would do. 1t was
afraid TO condemn the Legislature
that passed The act calling it lit was
afraid to censure Gov. Towns for
calling the Convention under that
act; and finally, il was afraid to ap-
prove uncconditionaily the infamous
compromise measures. All this, in
our opinion, goes TO prove that while
Ioombs, Stephens and o1ners Of that