Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-03-19
NEW POST OFFICE LAWS.

NEW POST OFFICE LAWS.
The following sections are in the Postroute Bill
which passed both Houses of Congress and are
now laws
RAIL ROADS MADE POST ROUTES.
Sec. 3. find be it further enacted, That all railroads
and parts of Railroads which are now or hereafter
NAV be in operation, be, and the same are hereby de-
clared the post roads and the Postmaster General
may contract for carrying the mails thereon according
TO existing laws.
NEW COMPENSATION TO POST MASTERS.
SEC. =. dn0 De at further en1cted, That from and
after the first of April next, in place of the compen-
sation now allowed deputy postmasters the Postmas-
ter General be, and is hereby, authorized to allow
them commissions at the following rdtes, on the pos
tage collected at their respective Offices in each quar-
teF' VIZ on any sum not exceeding one hundred dol
lars nifty per cent, but any postmaster whose Of
nee the mail is to arrive between the hours of nine
o'clock at night and five o'clock in the morning. may
De allowed sixty per cent, the first hundred dollars
on every sum and above hundred dollars, but
not exceeding four hundred dollars, forty per cent?
on every sum and above four hundred dollars
but not exceeding four hundred dollars, thirty five per
cent; on every sum extending twenIy-four hund red
dollars fifteen per cent.
And on the amount of hostages on letters and pack
ages received at distributing Office for distribution,
the postmaster at such distributng office may be al
lowed ten per cent. Every postmaster whose COM
Pensaton shall not exceed five hundred dollars in
one quarter shall be allowed for every free
letter delivered out of his office, excepting such as
are tor 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 diminished. Each postmaster
who shall be required TO keep a register of the arri-
val and departure of the mails, shall be allowed
cents for each monthly return which he makes the
Postmaster General. Each postmaster may be al
lowed two mills for delivering from his Office 80
subscriber each newspaper not charga6le with pos
tage: Provided, That the commissions and alIowan-
ces hereby authorized shall be subject to the provis
ions of the forty section of the entitled An
act to reduce into one the several acts establishing
and regulating the Post Office Department., approved
March the third, eighteen hundred and twenty-five.
FORGED ENVELOPES, &c.
SEC. provides against all kinds of counterfeing,
imitation or forgery of the postage stamps and
veopes, making the penalty, conviction, fine
not exceeding FIVE hundred dollars, or Imprisonment
not exceeding five years, or by both such fine and
Sec. makes it the duty of every postmaster to
cause to be defaceds in such manner the Posmas-
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,
if any person shall attempt to use for the
veyance of any letter other maiable matter, by
mail or otherwise such envelope, such person shall
be liable 10 penalty of fifty dollars.
The BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. A cores
pondent writes to the Savannah Journal an inte-
resting account of a visit to Gen. Jackson at the
lowing
81 longed to hear him speak of his great battle,
and of the greatest battles of modern history,
the browning ploit 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 Of most of his old comparios
since that battle. All the officers except Col. Tie
bault. he observed, dead. He then graphically
described the field, the Notifications, he laughing
Iy called them, and the victory, in manner shall
Mr. Coz hacI
greatly erred in his description of the American
works. He says had a strong breastwotk of cot
ton bags" There ,cGS not q bag Of cotton on the
field, Sir! had some sore-boxes and sand-bags, or
bags filled with sand, and these extended along
the lines; but they low that at the close of
the action, when the British surviving General, il
command, came riding up an elegant horse, to
surrender his sword, when he got near me, heard
him. exclaim, with mortified surprise, BarIicades
by -, could leap them with my horse!
laughed heartily at his establishment, for so he could
and besides, one wing the works not compile
ted; had nothing there but cornfe!d fence, if the
British had only known, to turn it But by keeping
my men constantly throwing facnes and lad
ders on the works, -the British efectuay de-
ceved. But Continued Gen. J) l never had so
grand and awful an idea of the Resurrection that
day. After the smoke of the battle had cleared off
somewhat (our men in hot pursuit Of the flying
enemy,) then saw, in the distance, more than five
hundred Brions emerging from heaps Of their dead
comrades all ouer the plain rising up, and dis
ncIy visi6e cs the field became clearer, coming for
Uard and surrendering prisoners of to our
soldiers. They had fallen at our first fire on them,
without having received scratch. and lay Prostrate
as if Dead till the close of the action" Gen. jack
son regarded this action justly, the most glorious
of his life. That victory glor-
Gus to his country as to the hero of New Orleans
yet the strategy of the General in his mastery battle
has never been duly appreciated in any history of
have ever read"
DEATH OF Dr.. ANDREWS Our readers and the
community at large will be panied to hear of the
death of DR.. Samuel A. Andrews, of this place. He
heinz tlu SIC of