Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-10-26
Nv EDN ESD "a 0G .T0BER 26, 1853

IMPORTANT TO PosrMAsrrRs AND OrHERs. We are
requested by the postmaster general to call attention
to the following regulations in regard to postage
letters to foreign countries > -
In the mail to Great Britain, the single rate Of
postage is "a cents, pre- payment OPTIONAL On eth
er letter packet of any weight the achole post
age or none at all should be prepaid. IF anything
less than the whole is prepaid, no account is taken
of it. and 1T IS entirely tost to the sender. The Brit
ish post Office declines to change this rule except on
conditions considered inadmissible.
In the Prussan closed mails to Germany 80 cents
is the single rate, prepayment optional. This pays
from any part of the United States to any part of
the German Austrian postal union. A prepayment
of any sum less than the regular of 80 cents is
not recognized and is of course lost to the sender
A note of fractions of the rate could not be taken
without seriously complicatng the accounts, besides
causing much additional labor and trouble at the eX
change offices. But contrary to the practice under
the United States and British postal convention, in
the Prussian mail every full rate Of 80 cents is cred
tied, whether the whole postage letter packet
is prepaid or not, leaving any balance due to be
collected at the office of delivery.
By the Bremen mail the rule is the same as under
the Prussian arrangement. The single rate to Bre-
men is 10 cents to Oldenburg II, to Hamburg 10,
to Altoona and Hanover 21 and to any other place in
Germany % cents, prepayment optional. In either
case prepayment of any fraction of the full rate
goes for nothing.
cept the British North American provinces) is to
charge rate for half under, two rates
if the weight is over one-half and not exceeding
ounce four rates if over and not exceeding two
ounces sr rates if two and not exceeding three
ounces; and on, charging two rates for every
ounce or fractional part Of ounce over the first
ounce. AS this rule differs from that followed in
respect to domestic letters where each half ounce
fraction of half ounce counts rate only post
masters who not careful to observe this differ
ence, are liable, OF course, to commit mistakes.
THE ADMINISTRATIONS To all democratic readers
who have watched with an ,unprejudiccd eye the
course of the administration, any eulogy upon its
efficiency and sound republicanism will be superhu-
Gus. In fact, all political parties compelled to
admit that the policy of the President proves that he
is actuated by the purest motives, the most ardent
patriotism, and design to sustain true, national
| democratic principles. There is no doubt that in
| these troublous times, when "wars and rumors of
wars convulsing the Old World and gigantic
enterprises agitating the New, public attention.
and not without censure, will be earnestly directed
as in the times of President jackson, towards the
heads of government. Their acts will be bitterly
disparaged by their political opponents and by the
malcontents of our own party, and it will dcvolve
upon the President and his cabinet to accomplish
without regard to men, and by an infeXble purpose
the course which their deliberate judgment shall
have recommended TO them.
The country looks to them with confidence in thi:
particular for it has already awarded to them tht
attributes of frmness, sagacity, discretion, and Am
ericanism in degree never excelled by any OF thc
predecessors. A great change is already sensibly
felt and all portions of the country are invigoratet
by the renoration of American energy, and the de
termined spirit which guarantees the accomplish
men of great enterprises at home, the preservation
at all hazards of the union of the States, and th
defence and elevation Of the national honor in th
| view Of all nations. Ioca Despatch.