Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-11-14
Counterfeit Treasury Notes in
Circulation.
Surrender Of 5000 Rebels al
Plymouth, ": C.

Surrender Of 5000 Rebels a
Plymouth, ": C.
INCREASE OF PAUPERs IN ENGLAND
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 7.
Gov. Gamble has appointed Thursday, 9th
as thanksgiving day. ... ..
Judge Lakeland, recently arrested f en-
couragng rebellion in opposition to the Gov
ernment in its prosecution of the war, etc.
has been referred to Major Gen. Curtis
Blair's majority in the 1st Congressional
District, leaving out the soldiers vote, is 557
Returns from the army will probably increase
it to 900.
Information from the 9Th District repre-
sents the vo'e between Gen Thos L. Price
and McClung as being close, with the chances
in favor of the latter.
Gen. Loan, Union emancipationist, is un
doubtedly elected in the 9TH District, by some
400 majority. a.
J. s. Rollin elected from the 9th District
by small majority.
Returns from the State are yet meagre, but
it is safe to assume that majority of the
members of the Legislature elected are for
emancipation.
About one o'clock yesterday morning, when
ten miles above St. Genevieve, the steamer
J. H. Dickey exploded one of her boilers,
killing several and wounding Others The
passengers were awakened by violent shock,
and rushing from their rooms found the boat
had run against the Illinois bank and lay
fastened in the mud. In about fifteen min
utes, while the passengers were wandering
about, not yet recovered from alarm, another
terrible shock shook the boat, and the forward
cabin was instantly filed with scalding
steam, which numbers inhaled and fell dying
upon the floor While the passengers rushed
in panic to the scene, other horrors were add
ed to the calamities, by fire breaking out in
the cabins and through the floor above. Great
praise is due Capt. Musselman for his bravery
and judgment ...
Among the names Of the killed was Lieut..
F. Dodge, 9th U. S. cavalry, of Philadelphia.
Henry E. Totten, clerk, was badly scalded.-
Several persons are known to have been blown
overheard, and others jumped into the river,
in the panic and were drowned.
At s o'clock the next morning the steamer
Warren came along and brought the Dickey,
five passengers and the crew to this city.
WASHINGTON, Nov. :.
Postage stamped envelopes were first intro
duced in the country in the year 1858, and
although offered at price far below that of
the ordinary envelopes Of the trade, they do
not as yet seem justly appreciated by the
public There has been but slight variation
in the number of stamped envelopes issued
annually In 1854 it amounted to 261 1856 !;
in 1856, 23,737,15O ri; in 1858, 80, ,734, ,275
ri; and 1861, 26O, ,273-the latter being less
than Is per cent. of the issue of the separate
postage stamps, which increased from 55 ,0OO,-
900 in 1854, to 211, 900, 600 in 1860. s.
The greater cheapness of government en-
veiopes as compared with those of the trade,
is generally overlooked because the purchaser
of the former is required to pay the addition
al charge of postage. One hundred stamped
envelopes are sold for So 18, while the same
number of plain envelopes of similar quality
may be procured for about 40 cents, but to
this sum must be added So 90, the value of
the postage stamps, which must be affixed to
each envelope before they can be used in the
mails. Thus making 100 letters cost So 40,
or % cents more than when covered by gov
ernment envelopes.
It appears that persons who make use of
unstamped envelopes, pay for them about
100 per cent more than if they. employed
stamped envelopes. ..-.. d. - 55,..
The number of seperate postage stamps is
sued during the year ending June 3Oth 1861,
was as above stated, upwards of two hun
dred million. Assuming that a like number
of unstamped envelopes were used for letters
at SO cents per hundred, which is a very low
estimate, the cost thereof would have been
$4,000; whereas, government envelopes
would have cost the consumer only $36, 600.
Hence a. sum equal to the difference to these
amounts, namely $4,000, may be considered
as actually lost to the public, which is owing
in a great degree to the want of proper ap-
probation of the advantages of the stamped
envelopes. .hs1Ec t.s aseaE r,fff .d- 81. p.
Objections are not unfrequently madeto the
government envelopes, either on account of
its form, size or quality, or the danger of lose
ing both the envelope and the postage stamp
thereon, should it be misdirected or other.
wise accidentally defaced. a,t g
Such objections the Postmaster General has
determined, if possible, to remove, and to this
end proposes to arrange for embossing, under
proper restrictions, the postage-stamp on any
envelopes that may be offered for that pur-
pose by stationers, bankers, merchants and
other business men. Such parties will thus
be enabled to procure stamped envelopes Of
the form and quality adapted to their own
tastes, which are now so varied that they can
not be anticipated by the Post Office Depart
ment. ..lf-' ~ '.iS @.
tits believed that stationers will be induced
to provide themselves with varieties of stamp
led envelopes suited to the wants of customers,
making such envelopes, equally with the or.
dinary unstamped article, regular portion
of their stock in trade. It is deemed expe-
dent, however, as precaution against fraud
that no one be permitted to enter into such
trade without having first obtained from thu
Postmaster General regular license for thai
purpose and that all private parties desiring
to have their own envelopes stamped must b
satisfactorily shown to. be of good standing
and be required to have their names printed
on the envelopes. They win then, on pay
i ment Of the postage, obtain permit to hay'
! the work done by the Government contracto
! for stamped envelopes, st New York.
! The Postmaster General considers the ,is
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