Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21
From the Washington Union.

Post ONCE Department.
Enclosing more than one Letter an the same EnUel-
ope.-It is penal offence to depose in any post
office to be conveyed in the mail any envelope or
packet containing letters addressed to different per-
sons. The law upon which the above is based is
frequently violated by persons who are, perhaps, not
aware OF lis existence The thirteenth section of the
act approved March 3, 1847 reads that every person
offending in the manner indicated above shall for.
tlt the sum OF ten dollars, to be recovered by action
qua tam, onehaf for the use of the informer and the
o1ner MALT Tor the of the Post Office Department"
mere Is one exception, however, and thai is in the
case OF letters addressed to foreign countries
Dead LetterS.-Letters for foreign countries which
cannot be forwarded without pre- payment of post
age, letters not addressed so badly directed that
tnelr destination cannot be ascertained, and letters
addressed to places where there are no post Offices
must be returned to the Post Office DEPARTMENT
monthly with the refused and foreign dead letters
When refused letters, or letters which cannot be de.
vered, or letters from foreign countries or any such
as are above enumerated, returned to the depart
ment the postmaster is required to note the dead
letter Dill Tor the last month Of the quarter the
OF the bills returned for each of the two preceding
months, SO as to give complete dead letter bill for
the aohoLe quarter corresponding in amount with the
credit claimed for dead letters in his quarterly account
current All dead letter bills are to be made in du-
Phcate ana one OF each retained by the postmaster.
Amusing Adventure.
The Paris correspondent of the New York Tri-
bune has the following:-
1.-The manner in which Messrs. Grow and Morgan,
two members of Congress, were recently taken for
domestcs by the domestcs Of the Emperor, is laugh
able enough 10 be worth repeating On the day on
which the diplomatic corps be presented to
the Queen, at the Palais Elysee, Mr. Plat, Secreta
ry OF the American Legation, found himself deprived
at the last moment, of the conveyance in which he
had intended to go TO the presentation. Rushing
info the street with his uniform on, american dipio
mats do wear uniforms,) 10 find public carriage he
saw passing in a miserable carriage, drawn by
horse of the leanes species known to the Paris pub
lc-whlch describes the horse fully TO those who
have seen Paris horses--the two members of Con.
gress, who called to him TO know where he
going. Mr. Plat told his dilemma, when the gen.
tlemen informed him that that the only carriage
they had been able 10 find il the neghborhood, and
invited him to take seat with them, and they would
leave him at the palace. The offer was accepted,
and one of the gentlemen taking seat with the dr
yer, the uniform took the interior. When the equi-
page arrived at the line of soldiers formed around the
palace they were stopped matter of course, and
it was not until after the uniform got out, showed
himself and his ambassad0ria 60 p0Sse pGrtout,' that
they permitted to enter.
In the court, which was already full of brilliant
equpages and arslocratic servants, the apparon Of
this democratic turnout the signal for of
merriment and wonder which might have wounded
the pride of more pretensious people. The uniform
got out, and was already ascending lhe broad stair
way of the palace, when lackey after him with
hat in hand, saying " May it please your Excelen-
cy, your servants wish to speak 10 YOU" Mr.. Platt
turned back and found that the servants whose duty
it arrange the carriages in the court until the
presentation had taken place, had supposed that the
equipage in question the property of his excel
Iency, that the persons who attended him his
servants, and had accordngly attempted to arrange
them in line TO wait the close OF the proceedings.
MIR Plat liberated his friends, who disappeared,
in the midst of general laugh, rapidly their
bare-tones could travel
THE FINAL PRooF-We copy from the National
Integencer the following statement, which we COM
mend to the digestion of Southern Know Nothings
8" Northern Kno1C NothingS The Committee of
Correspondence of the America party in twelve of
the Northern States have issued address,
mending that national Convention of the party
semble at Cincinnati on the 2lst day of November
next The Committee desire to see represented in
this Convention 60 all who opposed to the VIOLA
ton Of national faith by the reckless sundering OF
sacred national compacts, and who in favor of the
unconditional restoration of that time-honored Com
promise known as the Missouri Prohibition which
was destroyed in utter disregard of the popular will
"a wrong no lapse of time paliate, and no plea
| for lis continuance can justify"
Will this satisfy them of the guilt of their assocl
ates at the North Well do remember how the
defeat OF the Known Nothing party in Virginia was
attributed to the conduct of Massachusetts and the
Hiss Legislature and with what savage looks South
ern Know Nothings turned upon them In consequence
Most cruel it to PROSTATE the party in the first
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But Massachusetts only lead where others were ca
ger to follow; and from her intense and deep dyed
anaticism, public sentiment at the North has taken
all it's character. And now what has become of the
Philadelphia Platform, the harmony it aimed to Sc
cure the great reforms proposed to accomplish p
Instead of convention in the City of Brothery Love.
another Convention is to be held in Cincinnati where,
in the pure atmosphere of Abolition all the nonsense
of foreign and Catholic influence is to be forgotten,
and the Americans that shall rule America" are
to plot and determine against the rights and insttu-
tons of the South What conclusion to the great
Know Nothing party, which, having arisen upon
the ruins and in spite of the opposition of the Wing
and Democratic parties" was to soar above their fol-
lies, and, in suppression of all tendencies to polti
cal division founded geographical discrimination
promised peace to the Union and security to the
South. How notifying to think that Southern men,
after all their bitter experiences, could have been
duped by such al sham !-Charlcston Mercury 9Th
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