The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1854-04-22
FAYETTEVILLE n c. SATURDAY. APRIL e. 1854
Interesting to Possmasters.

Interesting to Possmasters.
We announced few days ago the passage
by the House of Representatives of bill re-
gulating the pay Of deputy postmastcrs. 1t is as
follows
| '''That, in place OF the compensation now al
lowed deputy postmasters, the Postmaster Gen
eral be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow
| them commissions at the following rates on the
hostages collected at their respective Offices in
each quarter of the year, and i'll due proportion
! for any period less tba, quarter, viz on any
i slm not exceeding hundred dollars sixty
ttTse~ cent; but any Postmaster at whose Office
! the mail is to arrive regularly between the hours
of O'Clock at night and O'clock i'll the morn
| ing may be allowed seventy per cent on the first
hnndred dollars; on any sum over and above
one hundred dollars, and not exceeding four
hundred dollars, fifty per cent OH any sum over
and above four hundred dollars but rot exceed
ing twenty-four hundred dollars, forty per cent;
| and on all sums over twenty y-foHr hundred dol
lars, fifteen per cent; the amount of postage
Oh letters and packages received at dstlibut
ing office for distribution, twelve and one-half
per cent. commission may be allowed Every
postmaster whose compensation shall not eN-
ceed five hundred; dollars in one quarter shall be
allowed one cent Oh every free letter delivered
out of his Office eNceIot such as are for the post
master himself. But the special allowance
now made by law to the postmastcrs at New
! Orleans and Washington city shall not other
wise be either Increased or diminished. Each
postmaster who shall be required to keep re-
gistcr of the arrival and departure Of the mails
shall be allowed ten cents for each monthly re-
turn which he makes to the Postmaster Gen
eral. Each postmaster may be allowed two
mills for the delivery from his Office to sub
| scriber of each newspaper not chargeahle with
postage Prcrided, That to any postmaster Of
any distributing or separating post office whose
commissions may be reduced below the amount
! I,h l. ~ ~
30th day Of June, 1851, the Postmaster, Gen
eral shall be authorized in his discretion to allow
such additional compensation as he may deem
proper, such compensation to date and be allow
ed from the 30th day OF March, 1858; Pro-
| clded fnrthcf That the commissions and allow
anccs authorized by this act shall be subject to
| the provisions of the forty-first section Of the
act entitled ''An act to reduce into the
several acts establishing and regulating the
Post Office Department." And all acts or parts
Of acts inconsistent with the provisions Of this
act be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and
this act to take effect and be iii force from and
after the commencement of the next fiscal
quarter after its passage
| CoUGHfNG CoSsUMrT1oN.-A gentleman
called upon us recently, who actually escaped
| from the fangs OF consumption some years ago
and we arc induced to present the crcum-
stances
| 'You speak of coughing continually. Let
me suggest to you the query, whether this is
| not unnecessary and injurious. | have long
been satisfied, from experience and observation
that much of the coughing which preccdcs and
attends consumption is voluntary. Several
years ago, | boarded with man who i'll
| the ncipient stages of consumption. l slept in
| Il chamber over his bedroom and obliged
to hear him cough continually and distressingly
| endured the annoyance, night after night, till
it led me to reflect whether something could
| H. T. 7 loI IL.
| which the made, and observed that he
| evidently made voluntary effort to cough
After this made several experiments on myself
and found that | could prevent myself from
coughing, sneezing, gaping, &c, i'll case of the
! strongest propensity to these acts, by strenuous
| effort of the Will Then | reflected that cou, H.
ing must he very irritating and injurious to the
delicate organs that are concerned in it, cspe
cay when they are in diseased state. What
can be worse for ulccred bronchia, or lungs
than the violent wrenching of cough 1t
must be than speaking.
\ sore any part of the body, if it is con
stantiy kept open 10y violent usage or made
raw again by confusion just when it is healing
(and of course begins to Itch will grow worse
and end i'll death. Certainly, then a sore O,
the lungs may be expected to terminate fatally
if it is constantly rritatcd, and never suffered ;e
heal and this, it seems to me, is just what
coughing does for it. On the strength OF such
man if he could not stop coughing. He an
swercd no. | told him what | thought about
it, as above. He agreed to make trial and
on doing so, he found to his surprise that he
could suppress his cough almost entirely The
power Of the will over it increased he eXcr-
cised it, and in few days he mostly rid o
the disposition to cough. His health at tho
same time evidently improved, and when last
| saw him. he was i'll strong hopes of getting out
of deaths hands,"
This occurred eighteen years ago, and the
man comes round now, an active business man
averring that he has not had a sick day since
-Prorineial H'es/eyan
SISGUIAR.-The Greensburyh Press tells Of a
farmer named Hise, living i'll Decatur county,
Indiana, who sold his farm short time since
for 100, in gold, which he put in carpet-sac
aud hung it upon his bed-post, aud then retired
to rest In the morning the sack and money
were cone-all he had in the world TO add
to his misfortune too, he had contracted tor
another farm, and was to pay Tor 1T the next
day. During the day the carpet-sack was found
in a hollow poplar stump, near his barn, with
the nocket-book in it, but no money thcre-the
thief had secured what he wanted. On Friday
nioht Mrs Hise awakened by her husband
| Getting out of bed. She and watched
him He went to the barn, and after searching
u little while came out with the money i'll his
hand and went to the stump where the carpet
bag had been put. She now awoke him, when,
TO his great low he found that all was not lost