Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1854-06-24
Mnner-Lnst in the Mails.


drawel of his application, Instructed l'''
| Commissioner of Patents TO forward 10 hln
BY mail the sum of twenty dollars due HIN
from the Government on sad withdrawal
The Washington Star says;
The money was sent agreeaby 10 ms
instructions, and was lost III course oil
transmission. On his application to oe re-
enumerated said sum, II was held-lhaI the
Pos-Office Department is established Io'
the convenience of the people, and IS I
medium for them TO transmit and receive
intelligence and all nailable matter but
| il is not an insurance Office. The pos
tage charged is no more in the estimation
of Congress Than fair compensation Ion
the services actually rendered, and is moi
reward for any risk run in conveying
mailable matter. If The Postmaster Gen
era, or the President and Senate, have
appointed dishonest Postmaster, The u
nted States are not bound to remu%erale
the loss an individual sustained by his
having violated the laws, and there is no
liability imposed on the United States in
this case, from the fact that they were the
trustees of said applicant and sent the
money by mail as he directed.
9S>A Paris correspondent gives the
following account of the tactics Of the
Emperor Nicholas
at is a fact, of which the cxactltude
can no longer be put in doubt, that the
commanders and the chiefs of the Gar ;
service, have the habit whenever an en-
gagement takes place, 10 give three reports:
one for the emperor, personally, which Is
never read but by him alone, and in which
they are obliged TO tell the truth a second
for The minister, which is destined to be
published and spread over Europe and
the world in the public journals, and
which, filled with errors and taIschoOds,
has for its object 10 mlslead public oPIn'
ion. by pervertlng the facts, and making
all their reverses appear as victories and
third report, intended for the interior
population Of the Russian empire, which
is printed in the Russian language, stuck
up in the churches and publicly read by
the preachers of the Greek church. This
last document Is filed with falSehoods SO
outrageous, that the government takes
great care that it shall never penetrate in
to Europe. After the bombardment of
Odessa, bulletin of this kind was pub
Iished at Moscow, and sent throughout
the empire. 1t said, in, positive terms,
that three ships of the combined fleets,
had been taken by the Russian gun boats
by boarding, and that the crews Of these
ships of war were then prisoners in the
citadel Of Odessa, where they would re-
main until the end of the war -
REPORTER WAYLAID.-The reporter Of
the New York Times, while on his way
over 10 Brooklyn on Sunday last, during
the Irish riot was waylaid by party of
Irish papists who had gathered in Stone
street, near the Battery, armed with clubs
and stones, 10 watch, as they said, the
Know No,hings," under which class
they embraced all wearing white felt hats
called" Wide-Awakes." Mr.. Edward Pep
per, reporter, who had the misfortune to
cover his Uranium with one of the ohjec
lonabe hats, seeing man knocked down
and beaten, went over to learn his name,
when one Of the party cried out There's
one of them ~ and immediately he was
set upon by dozen rufiians, who Knocked
him down and beat him severely about
the head and body, His head was cut
and his right arm severely injured. A
party of police who came up rescued him
after considerable difficulty.
D-,u,, ~, Dr,n TLa Iournol Of