Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-28


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required. On all printed matter received in
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postage through to destination having to be
prepaid, no rates are given for newspapers
Or IMPORTANCE TO Decentralization.
plants are frequent from the directors of
foreign (European} postal departments, relative
to embarrassments growing out Of the failure
of American pOstmasters to note that fact on
the faces or backs of letters marked paid by
the senders which the latter have really fail
cd to prepay, as they Intended. Nothing is
more common than to drop in the post-of6ce,
without prepayment, a letter marked paul.
which the sender originally intended to pre-
pay, without carrying out that intention In
Europe, it is always customary for the post
master, at the Office where such letters may
be mailed, to note on them the fact tn at the
postage has not been paid, though the writer's
marked them as paid. Thus, when let
tiers from this country marked paid by the
writer's, but really unpaid, are received in
Europe, iculty, between the person to
whom they are addressed and the postmaster
at the Office Of delivery occurs except when
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explaining the mistake of the writer. All U.
S. pOstmasters should bear this fact in mind,
nd har
An IMPORTANT QUESTION under the law of
Aug. So 1852, for the protection of life on
steamboats,, has recently been mooted before
the Solicitor Of the Treasury. 1t is whether
it is necessary to take out q special license to
authorize steamboat to carry spirits Of tur-
pentine, as freight This law makes such q
license necessary to authorize any explosive
burning fluid to be so transported The ques-
ton then is: is the spirits of turpentine sex
plosive" as we'll as burning?' We appre-
bend that chemists must be consulted to ena-
BILE the law officer to decide the point in issue
Some Of the collectors so far insist that the
license is not necessary in such cases, while
others judging differently, exact their pro-
curement..
CONSUL BEsNErr's REPORTED TREATY with
the Brazilian Government relative to the nav
igation of the Amazon, was not made under
the direction of the Government of the United
States, as represented by northern journals.
Nor was the arrangement made by Consul b.
with the Brazilian authorities. The truth of
the story is as follows; viz Mr.. Bennett, as
the agent for an American company, pur-
chased of Brazilian subject certain rights
and privileges Of navigation Of the Amazon
and its tributaries which had been accorded
to him some six or eight years before, by the
Brazilian authorities. It now turns out that
very recently, the latter conceive that they
have found flaw in their original grant,
which will justify them in opening the nayi-
gatisn of those waters to the vessels of all the
world thus depriving the original grantee
and his assignees of their exclusive privileges.
LIEUT., SAxroN's ExPEDIrIoN.-Lieut. Sax
ton, u. S. A., who reached here few days
since is tho officer who commanded the adj
vance expea,it to meet Gov. Stevens party
for the Pacific railroad from the
western ocaa, an. Leaving New York on
The 5th of May last, an crossing the ls'nmu'
he organized surveying parry anu '.ls'
'upply train at the Dalles o, '"' o ~
md in the short space OF tima '"een 'a'
18th Of July and the 18th day Of b.. "'%'''
10 crossed the Cascade and the Bitten 'o0s :
Ranges established In the beautiful valley :. -
DID, Asry's Just VEST Of the mountains depot
% eninais aad provisions, iadispsnsihls to