The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1858-03-17

tlpiL y ptG. 4Op, VI WIG ltN to'toti'''' % ''4N
z. o. Department, which reads:
"Sec 100. Publications borrowing the
NAME having the form and some of the cha
racteristics of newspaper, printed for gra-
tuitous circulation, and depending on their
advertisements for support, cannot be sent by
mail gratutous Y to persons not actual ana
bono .,ide subscribers upon the footing of
newspapers 'sent from the office of publica-
ton to actual and BONG jidc subscribers"
Complaint of this fraud upon the alrea-
dy impoverished pocket of beloved Uncle
Sam,was duly made by the proprietor of
the Day Book, and much to the sweet
satisfaction Of our patriotism, a decision
in acc ordancc with the law was prompt
ly given.
But the cavcn Of Yankecism in Nor
folk is very potent, and our enterprisirg
neighbors were not to be SO easily cir
cumvented, So, after much grave coun-
selling, they hit upon the "bold device
of af1ixjng a nominM subscription l'riceiof
three cents per yea,'to their sheet, which
expelient they have recently flourishing-
ly announced, taking care, by repeated
explanations Of their ingenious dodge,
to apprizc their readers tina. they were
not at all ia earnest, and shouldn't
Insist upon payment Can any Connec-
t;cut pe(llar beat this Where is the
genius who suggested the tenth pin for
the bowling alley? Does anybody want
TO bring Goals to Newcastle, or carry any
warming pans 10 the West Indies p
Alas there is no longer any market for
Yankee tricks" in Norfolk
Of course, this transaction was all very
honest, for our hemi- monthly contempora-
~ thinks, no doubt, that as in war, so in
the newspaper business, everything is
fair" Somebody has said that claws are
made onlyin view of their being broken
Amongst the Spartans, dctcction in the
commission Of certain offences was the
crime--not the offence itself
But although it may be all very well
fer private citizens, like tie gentlemen of
the Lade.r, to evade the law-and on the
whole,we are not inclined too lay too much
stress upon the improperly of a skilful
evasion Of some laws-what are we to say,
if it be true, as the Iaeler has Significantly
intimated, that their exquisite project for
lodging the uncomfortable regulation
that stood in their path, was suggested by
Gen. Millson and approved by the Post
Master General? If this be the fact,
what a magnificent coalition is presented
to the delighted gaze of the philosopher,
the student, and the man of leisure! The
Representative in Congress, of Norfolk,
with all her brilliant commercial prospects
the venerable Chief of the Post office De-
partment, who gives such splendid din
nefs in Washington, the publisher Of the
hsder. who deals SO largely in the imple-
mcnts Of husbandry and stands like a
Colossus with foot respectively in Balti-
more andin the "anciert borough
three sagely planning three cent project
uust one cent q piece)-for getting round
the law
We cannot believe, however, that this
sublime vision is reality. We arc 10th
to credit the notion, even with the know
ledge We have of the low aud mean ethi-
cal standard of professional politicians,
thai respectable men in Office can un-
blushingly descend to an cquivocation so
oeggarly and SO palpable. A squibble so
patent, SO paltry. so sorry, so forlorn, 50
poor as this, would disgrace perpctually
the smallest pettifogger who ever acted
as counsel in assault-aud- battery cases.
before q ccuntry Justice. DO they be-
lieve that the inteat,on of the law-or
EVEN IT'S LETTERS now answered .
Do they belieye-they are worse lawyers
than We take them for if they do-that
the postal revenue is not def~audcd by
the gratuitous transmission through the
mails of the City hdc1, as mach, aud as
tnercusably, now as it was a month ago2
Do they believe the persons who receive
the hedex through the Post Office to be,n
the language of Sec. 100 of the Post Office
regulations, "actual and IONA FIDm
subscribers ?" Does not the hader ex-
plicitly declare that the "3 Ct" subscrip-