The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-12
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

Lottery Circuiars.-The frequent and pertinacous at
empts of those who pretend to be- keepers of lottery
Offices induce pomaters their assistants, to act
their agents. and the of the schemes
real fictitious lotteries by them through the mails
and addressed to postmasters render it peculiarly
pirate this time invite the attention Of all posmasters
and their assistants the 9th section of the Of Congress
approved March I'd, 1927.
That section declares 'tat postmaster assistant
postmaster, shall agent for lottery offices, under
color of purchase, otherwise vend lottery tickets;
shall any postmaster receive free Of postage frank lottery
schemes circulars tickets For uiolooa of this propis
ion the person offending shall suffer enoIy Of fy dol
lars"
The order of the department is, that call such lottery
schemes circulars tickets addressed either posas
ter or assistant postmaster hereafter be excluded
the mail to yehor with all other transient matter of t
kind addressed simply to office, and not to nd
vidua'
NcO Post O6ices.The following post Offices have
been established, and the following named gentlemen APP
pointed postmasters, by the Postmaster General:
Graytown, Ottawa county, Ohio Travis Kelly, post
White Lick, Boone county, Indiana Fountain p Smith
Little Walnut, Putnam county, Indiana Andrew DER
Four Mile Valley, Union county, Indiana Samuel Good
Louisville, Minnesota Territory Joseph r. Ashley, post
Cbambersia Liberty county, Texas; Il. j. Chambers
postmaster re-esabishcd.
Discontiued.The following post Offices have been
discontinued:
| East Newied, Tompkns county, New York.
Lake Creek Pettis county Missouri.
Beeohland, Licking county, Ohio.
1 Jonesyille Monroe county, Ohio
Harrodsbutg, Monroe county, Indiana.
Penny's Ferry, Henry County, Illinois.
appointment Of a Route Ageat.-Ephram T. Stewart on
the Chicago aud Rock Island railroad between Chi
cago and Rock island.
i BALLOON ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS appREHENsIoNs-We copy
the following from the Cleveland (ohio) Herald of the
9Th instant:
"Mr Winchester made balloon ascension from Nor
| walk Tuesday. lie commenced initiating his balloon
early in the morning, and at stepped into the
and cut loose from earth The balloon rapidly and
in five minutes passed into the clouds out of view Tho
wind light and at the time he passed into the clouds
4 his due east He passing over Ber-
linvlean indication that the balloon met with north
easerly current which would take Mr.. W. the lake
/ in the direction OF Buffalo The Experiment says
At the time of putting our paper 10 press (Friday
EVENING" three days have elapsed the ascension
made and there have been dngs received from Mr.
Winchester the most fearful apprehensons rife TO
his fate When he started he said he intended to 90
higher and further than any aeronaut had dared ia
think Of going 1t is feared BY that when he got up
into the upper current the intense GOODNESS which pre-
walls In that region rendered him nsensibe and that
he was frozen death Others think that he hav,
come down in the lake and been drowned Weare fearful
| that some accident has beiaen him still cannot re
nquish the hope that he is sale, and that he will live u
make many more ascensons.
II will be recolected that Mr. W. made his rst ascen-
sion from Milan this fall, and landed near Hudson. II,
rose The height of over 10000 feet and cold n
time become sleepy andnsensble and that wher
he observed the thermometer the mercury indicated
degrees below The bags OF sand in bis balloon wer'
] frozen hard"