Litchfield enquirer., 1863-07-09
WHOLE NO.

B@- We publish the following extracts frem the New Post Office Laws, to take effect July lst, 1863. Our subscribers will please make . note" of the changes in the Laws:
 NEWSPAPER POSTAGE.
 No newspaper or magazine, not prepaid at the mailing office, can be delivered until the postage has been paid for at least one quarter, unless the party addressed shall pay on each such paper or magazine the rate required on transient matter, which is Two CENTS for every fraction thereof, contained in any one package
 ''1he rate of postage upon mailable matter of the second class, issued onoa . week or more frequently from known office of pphli. cation, and sent to regular subscribers, shall be as follows: Upon newspapers and other pc. riodical publications, each not exceeding the standard weight of four ounces, and passing through the mails or post offices of the United States between any points therein, the rate for each quarter of the year shall be {: for nphli. cations issued once week, five cents"
 This section is applicable to regular pA- pers and periodicals issued once c scsek or more JfSequently, and from knoscn odice, . publication. The provision of the former law authorizing free delivery of newspapers within the county of their publication is ra. tained bat the subscriber must reside within the county of publication; and 1t is only . aoeekly newspaper that can be thus delivered without charge of postage. There is no lon. ger any difference by reason of the cireulatioq in or out of the State where puhlished."
 Publishers may enclose in their publicas tions sent to regular subscribers the bills for subscription thereto without any additional chorno y,o.&ocn o,,1 ,,,a,, ~r-,tr ,.~;~s on their publications, or upon the Wrapnets thereof, the name and address of the su6tcri- bers thereto, and the date when the subscrip- tion will expire but any other enclosure or addition in writing or in print shall subject the same to letter postage, which shall be col lected before delivery thereof"
 The Postmaster General may require ap affidavit in form, to be prescribed by general regulation, to be taken by any publisher, orany clerk, agent, or servant of such publisher ot any paper or periodical, which, by the terms of this act, may be sent to regular subscribers without prepayment of postage at the mail. ing office, to the effect that neither he nor any other proprietor, clerk, agent, or employee, within his knowledge, has sent, or caused or permitted to be sent, through the mails, witA- out prepayment by postage stamps. any cop ies of such paper or periodical, except the same were sent to bona fide and regular sub- scribers thereto. And if it be ascertained that such papers or periodicals have been thus un lawfully sent, with the knowledge or consent of such preprietors, or of the agent or clerk in charge of that business; or if such afida- vit, when required by the Postmaster-G General, or by special agent of the Post Office de- partment, shall be refused, the person guilty of such offence, or refusing such oath, shall be liable to fine of fifty dollars in each case"
 (" If any matter on which by law the post, age is required to be prepaid at the mailing office shall reach it's destination without such prepayment, double the prepaid rates shall be charged and collected on delivery
 Postmasters will charge and collect post. age, at the rate of three cents for each half ounce, on any newspaper or periodical s9 marked or written upon as to give any infsrm. ation than that contained in print. The same charge will be made where it is So enclosed that it cannot be examined with destroying the wrapper. The same rule applies to writ: ten and printed matter which may be sent at less than letter postage"
 By the above, our subscribers, and others, will See that on all papers sent to their address, (excepting one copy regularly every weekly pOStdSt muSt Uo phtu ut tu0 HAuiuuG OMACo therefore. hereafter the price of single copies of the Enquirer, will be four cents at our of- flee, and Srx cents if to be sent by mail. Our subscribers will please remsmher, thsrefore. when they want extra copies, to send along the postage.
 LETTER POsrAaE.
 "Tke rate of postage on all letters ssaaa- mitted in the mails of the United States, and not exceeding H OF. in weight, shall Do uni- form at cents. All local or "drop" lettsrs, not exceeding < oz. in weight, shall be mi. form at tive cents, to be prepGid by postage stamps"
 "f'he single letter rate of postage will Do three cents throughout the United States. Inc Pacific rats of ten cents is abolished. An d. ditional rate of three cents is required fpP each additional half ounce or fraction. It must be prepaid in all cases."
 BETTING PAPER WITH SERInps DRAW BAcKs.-A correspondent writing from near vicksburg, indulges in the following fancies relative to the difficulties that must bsset .