Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-03-23
CITY OF RALEIGH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 1855
NEW POST OFFICE LAWS.

NEW POST OFFICE LAWS.
The following sections are in the Postroute Bill
which passed both Houses of Congress and arr
now laws:
RAIL ROADS MADE POST ROUTES.
SEC. 3. find be further enacted That all railroads
and parts of Railroads which are now or hereafter
may be in operation, be, and the same are hereby de-
clared to the post roads and the Postmaster General
may contract for carrying the mails thereon according
10 existing laws.
NEW COMPENSATION TO POST MASTERS.
SEC. 6. .4na be it further enacted That from and
after the fret of April next. in place of the compen.
saton now allowed deputy postmasters, the Postmas-
ter General be, and is hereby, authorized to allow
them commissions at the following rates, on the pos.
tage collected their respective Offices in each quar-.
ter, viz on any sum not exceeding hundred dol
lars fifty per cent, but any postmaster at whose Of
hce the mail is TO arrive between the hours of nine
O'Clock at night and five O'Clock in the morning. may
be allowed sixty per cent on the first hundred dollars
on every sum and above hundred dollars but
not exceeding four hundred dollars, forty per cent;
on every sum over and above four hundred dollars,
but not exceeding four hundred dollars, thirty per
cent; on every sum extending twenty -four hundred
dollars fifteen per cent.
And on the amount of postages letters and pack
ages received at distributing Office for distribution,
the postmaster at such distributing office may be al.
lowed ten per cent. Every postmaster whose com.
pensaton shall not exceed five hundred dollars in
quarter. shall be allowed cent for every free
letter delivered out of his office, excepting such as
for the postmaster himself But the special al
lowance now made by law to the postmasters at New
Orleans and Washington city shall not otherwise be
either increased or diminished Each postmaster
who shall be required to keep register of the arri.
val and depa rture of the mails, shall be allowed ten
cents for each monthly return which he makes to the
Postmaster General. Each postmaster may be al.
Iowa lie g.. LII,
subscriber each newspaper not chargable with pos
tage: Provided, That the commissions and allowan.
ces hereby authorized shall be subject t. The provls
ions of the forty.rst section of the act entitled IAN
act" t6 reduce into the several acts establishing
and regulating the Post Office Department, approved
March the third, eighteen hundred and twenty five.
FORCED ENVELOPES, &c.
Sec. provides against all kinds of counterfeting
imitation or forgery of the postage stamps and en-.
velopes. making the penalty, on conviction, fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars, Imprisonment,
not exceeding five years, or by both such fine and
Imprisonment.
Sec. makes it the duty of every postmaster tc
to be defaced, in such manner as the Postmas
ter General may Direct all letter envelopes with post
age stamps thereon, which may be deposited in his
office for CONVEYANCE in the mail; and provides that
IT any person shall use attempt to use, for the
veyance of any letter other mailable matter, by
mail or otherwise such envelope, such person shall
be liable to penalty of fifty dollars.
The BATTLE OF New ORLEANS A CORES
pondent writes to the Savannah Jouroa! an inte
resting account of visit to Gen. Jackson at ths
Hermitage in 1889, from which VIC extract the fol
lowing:
81 longed to hear him speak of his great battle
and Of the greatest battles too of modern history
the crownng exploit of his military life, the battle
Of the 9th of January, before New Orleans. He had
just returned from his last visit to that city, and la
mented the decease Ct most of his old compatriots
since that battle. All the officers except Col. Tie
bault. he observed, were dead. He then graphically
described the field, the forteaiions, he laughing
y called them, and the victory, il manner sha
never forget. " Mr.. Eaton (said Gen. Jackson) ha:
greatly erred in his description of the American
works. lie says had strong breastwork of CO,
ton bags" There was not bag Of cotton on M
feld Sir! l had some store-boxes and sand-bags, o.
bags filled with sand and these were extended along
the lines; but they were SO low, that at the close o
the action when The British surviving General, il
| command, came riding up on an elegant horse, Il
surrender his sword, when he got near me, heart
him, exclaim. with mortified surprise, Barricades
by -, l could leap them with my horse!'
laughed heartily at his astonshment, for so he could
and besides, wing the works not pie
ted; had nothing there but cornfeid fence, if tn
| British had only known, to turn it! But by keeping
my men constantly throwing facines and lad
ders the works, the British were effectually de
ceived. But CONTINUED Gen. J.) l never had s
grand and awful an idea othe Resurrection as on tina
day. After the smoke of the battle had cleared o
somewhat, (our men were in hot pursuit Of the fyin
enemy,) then l saw, in tho distance, more than fv
hundred Britons emerging from heaps Of their dea
comrades all the plain rising up, and more d
timely uisbe, the field became clearer, coming fo'
,rard and surrendering as prisoners of war to ou
soldiers. They had fallen at our first fire on them
without having received scratch, and lay PROSTATE
as if dead. till the close of the action." Gen. Jack
son regarded this action, justly, the most gloriou
achievement of his life. That victory was as glor
Gus to his country as to the hero of New Orleans
yet the strategy of the General in his mastery bat
has never been duly appreciated in any history of it
: have ever read"
DEATH OF DR. ANDREWS. Our readers and h
community at large will be panied to hear of tn
E death of DR.. Samuel A. Andrews, of this place.
died on Friday night last, being exactly Sc years
age.
Dr.. Andrews was born in the town of Woodbur,
Connecticut, March ll,h. 1897, and received the d.
gree of Doctor of Medicine at Yale College in II
year 1918, and was married the same year to Louis
: Gum, of w ashington. Connecticut. In 1924 he r
moved to North Carolina, locating himself at Sleep
Creek, in this county, where he was inmate
the family of the la.e James Griswold, for whom
ever entertained the clost feelings of friendship.
1927 he removed to Waynesbcrough, and from then'