The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-04
Talk on ,ChanUe.

Change thiny attended Saturday, it being the
eve Of the national holiday and transactions in most
tces of trade rather limited The sales Of cotton
we're 200 bales without alteration In quotations To.
bacco continued r with sales of 800 400 hhds at fuu
prices Teegraphc dispatches received from Ken
lucky stating that there Ia been rain to any good
ard that the ospects Of the crops unpromisng
Many Of the merchants who resided up town spoke Of
the severity of the hail Storm the Jumps of ice the
largest they had fall from the clouds and
it not that the accounts corroborated by such
multitude of uninpeachabe witnesses they would ap.
pear incredible The wonder that greater injury
had not resulted from to storm. The wind first,
then comp calm followed, when the hail fell al
most pepper dcuarly Hence while great many houses
had the skylighs okeu the penss in side windows gen.
orally escspsd.
There serious complaints made by number Of mer
chants against the United States envelopes account
of their being stamped with Mr. G. Nesbit.s name and
residence, and at the very point where the private
seal Of those using them should appear Thus,
on receiving letter in Of these envelopes,
and looking for the SEAL person might imagine that 1t
had come from Mr. Nesbtt, the worthy sat,oner Of Ne
York, and manufacturer Of the government envelopes
II was said that the private seal Of letters afforded an
index to their authors aud place of mailing them and
their proper without being opened Ia the pre-
sent case the place Of sealing being covered With Mr.
Nesbits and place OF residence such letters might
be sent 10 him instead of their authors We heard
large number Of merchants declare that their houses
would never the envelopes thus stamped with Mr..
Nesbits or any other persons nams Others said that
if the, did them they would Tho private stamp
cover it with seal None could discover shy good
purpoe to be answered by this private stamp. Some
considered that the department had i.horzed such
liberty It error and would defeat the utility
Of the stamps to the public II Mr. Nesbitt vas to be
benefited by the sale of them he would fad to his in
terest TO remove all private marks from the en-
yelopes The United States stamps on them sess beau
tfully and elegantly executed, and were creditable
to the mspufacturer and sincere regret expressed
that their utility seriously marfod f not des
uoyed by the private stamp referred to- Il hoped
The difficulty would be rectfed, either by Mr. Nesbit
himself, by the Post Office apartment, and a. once
1t appeared that the German merchant previously
referred TO being unable to obtain the interest
coupon boros issued by the city Of Albany at the Bank
Of New Yolk on Friday, handed them to a notary for
protest This functlonary, hunting reund resolved
the money at Duncan, Sherman, Co.'s, aud handed it
over TO The merchant on the afternoon. II was
presumed nom this fact that the city Of Albany had
charged he agents in New York for paying ito interest.
and had failed 10 appriss the public of the fact either
through the Bank of New York. or the public prints
which was customary in all such cases.