Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-06

STAAPs.-The new city orders were put
in circulation yesterday to a limited extent.
We hope they will be Issued In such quanti-
ties as to assist materially in doing awav
with postage stamps as currency. The latter
are decided nuisance, and are growing Gnu
isaneer and nuisaneer every day. Pntyour
fingers in your vest pocket for tOOth-piek
and they are stuck together with stamps;
pull out Jour handkerchief, and little red, blue,
yellow and green heads Of the Father of his
Country, hutter IN the air. The gummy
things stick to your POeket-knife, roll
themselves around your pencil case, plaster
on to your note book, and attach themselves
to your watch oass. YOu put dozen of
them in pOrtmOnais and are only able to get
about half Of them out again, the balance
stick to the lining and can't be got of.
You are acOnhding man, and receive lit
tie paper parcels. marked 50 cents, 25 cents,
60. without counting them. Your grocer is
mere careful when you pass them over to
him for groceries, and unfolding the parcels
unfolds the fact that some have nothing in
them, others contain stamps that have been
removed from old letters, and all are short Of
the sums ostentatiOuslyP placed on the outside.
You nate man who offers them to you in
change, and despise yourself when You pay
them out. Most any man will stop to pick
up good, hard penny on the Sidewalk, but
when did yen ever zee one stoOp to pick up a
postage stamp7 IF ever man did suoh a
thing he looked carefully around first tOmake
sure that no one vas observing him, and
then he would probably give it to the first
boy he met to get rid of it.
The public have got perfectly sick of the
sticky currency, and It will not be long be-
fore it will be laid aside entirely, and the
sooner the better.
What fun we used to poke at " them South
ern fellers " because they were compelled to
use shinplasters. It was SO long since we
had seen a shinplaster in the North We had
forgotten almost how 1t looked, and when
our soldiers got hold of some rebel shinpla5-
ters and sent them home, they were exhib-
tied in shop windows as rare curiosities. We
ourself can remember examining one in 3
window, and we chuckIed " sarcustikal" US
We jingled the hard specie in our pantalOOn's
pocket, 1.-TWO Eve cent pieces, Barlow knife
and some plug tsbaceO.) It was an unfOr-
tunats day with US when we parted with that
hard change, but we didn't dream Of postage
stamps then. If we had there would have
been an old stocking laid away with "pOrta-
bic property" in 1t.
We have been paiuod TO observe the bane-
ful effects Of postage stamps upon ou- youth.
In our day the promise Of three hard copPers
would ineiie Us to the greatest industry.
There was something to feel in your hsud, to
jingle in your pocket, to ring whenyOu threw
them down on the candy mans counter.
What boy could be stimulated 20 exertlOn by
the promise of ga postage stampI" He
would hardly know he had it In his hand-it
don't jingle-and instead Of ringing On the
candy mans eouhter, ten to one candy man
would be obliged to serape Il Of the palm of
the boys hand if he received it for bis mer-
chandise. Then how many little boys take
their first lesson in crime by picking stamps
off from letters they are sent to the post Office
with, or by passing stamps that have been
cancelled, on blind peanut pedlar. Postage
stamps are baneful currency in more ways
than one, and we hope to see them supplied
by something less objectionable.
The public have got perfectly sick Of the
sticky currency and it will not be long before
it will be laid aside entirely, and the sooner
the better.