The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-06

The following contains information OF I'M
portance to the public, concerning Foreign
Matter. The law went into effect May LIST,
having been approved March Sd.
The resolution authorizing the collection
in coin of postages due on unpaid mail mat
ter from foreign countries, is as follows:
"Whereas the failure to prepay foreign
correspondence throws upon the Post Office
Department of the United States large bal
ances, which have to be paid in coin: There
fore a'i
Be It resozved 6y the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of A0aers-
ca, IN Congress assembled, That the Postmas-
ter General be and is hereby authorized to
take such measures as may seem to him ad-
visable' to collect postage on letters from
abroad not prepaid, in order to avoid loss in
the payment of such balances
Post Master General Blair issues the fol-
lowing instructions under the resolution:
"In pursuance of the provisions of this
resolution, you are hereby directed from and
after the first day of May next, to collect, IN
gold or situe. coin, all postages due ON unpaid
letters received from foreign countries in the
mails dispatched to this country from Great
Britain and Ireland, France, Prussia, Ham
burg, Bremen, or Belgium, and to hold the
coin so collected subject to the special drafts
or orders of this Department.. Should, how
ever, payment of such postage and of the
premium on corresponding amount of coin,
be rendered you in United States notes, you
are authorized to accept the same in lieu of
coin. i
For the present this order will apply ex-
clusively to the mails received from the coun-
tries above mentioned. On outgoing letters,
the existing regulations remain unchanged p
3salsss --s-4--s--
Removal of the Condemned sioux Hn-
dams from MankatO. Minnesota.
On the 23d ult., the condemned, unhung,
Sioux Indians, who participated in the horri-
Bile massacrees of last Fall, were quietly, and
secretly removed from Mankato, Mimi, where
they have been confined through the winter
to Davenport, Iowa, where they viii continue
in confinement, and it is supposed their i'm.
prisonment there may be for life. We ex
tract from The 81. Paul Daily Press, of thu
26th ult, the following account of the re
moval:
As it was known that the removal of th
Indians without inficting upon them the pun
ishment which their crimes so richly deserved
would excite deep feeling among the people
and as the determination had been freely ex
pressed by numbers of citizens that the Ind
ans should never leave Mankato alive, it wa
necessary that the utmost secrecy, caution an
dispatch should be. observed in the affair. 81
The steamer Favorite had been up to Re
Wood with army stores for the new post e
tabIished there, and on her way down, Co
Miller, commandant at Mankato, informt
Capt. Hutchinson that he had use fo= b
boat. His preparations for. the removal of IL
prisoners to the boat We're made quietly, al
without attracting the notice or exciting Il
suspicious of the citizens. Everything bei1
in readiness, early on the morning of the q
inst, company of infantry was deployed
each side of the prison to the river, formil
wall of bayonets, concealing what was g
ing on. The door of the log Jail was throw
open and the condemned Indians, 2g7 in nur
Der, passed through the guard house to Il
lower deck of the steamer. Those acquitt
by the Military Commission, 48 in numb
who have also been kept in prison, were
ken up on the boiler deck to be left at F.
Snelling Twepty-four Indian women, W
had been carried up from Fort Snel.ing
Mankato on the upward trip of the Favori
so as to avoid detention ilconing down. W.
put on board to serve us cooks for the &C
demned prisoners. The Colonels arrans
ments were SO complete aud the deportati