Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-09-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
THE CINCINNATI POST OFFICE.

Washington, Sept. 4.-The receipts of the
Postofficc in Cincinnati for the fiscal year
ending June Goth, are as follows: Quarter
ending September 30th, 1864, sol ,21G quar-
ter ending October 3lst 1864, S5O,S67 "A;
quarter ending March 81, 1860, $52966 70
quarter ending June 30, 1868, S5O, 765 O6
total. for the year, ,533,600 The amount
received for registered letters, which cost
twenty cents each for every domestic letter,
and five cents each for those that 90 out of
the country, is, for the year, $l53 %. The
receipts for box rents are as follows: Quarter
ending September 30, 1864, 81, 1863 Is; De-
ccmber 81, 1864 s3,3lS; March 81, 1868,
81, ,76S so; June 80, 1865, $3,945; total, Sl3,-
aO5 20. The expenses of the Office were
about $4,000 The net amount handed over
to the government after payment of the cx-
penses, fo- the quarter ending Sept 80, 1864,
$40, 765 50; Dec. 81, 1864, $500 II; March
81. 1865, $44, ,ll6 0G; June 80, 1865, $4l,-
9IO 81; total, $ls0,607 63.
THE SOUTHERN rosToFrICEs.
1 As postofiices continue to be reOpened in
the South, the postmasters who were in pos
session of them when the rebellion com
menced have drafts or notices served upou
them for settlement of arrearages. Some
few have liquidated their Indebtedness, while
others express villngness to pay so soon as
they can obtain the means for that purpose.
PARDON SEEKERS.
The receipts from internal revenue to-day
amounted to the enormous sum of four mill
ion three hundred thousand dollars and up
wards.
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FRS.
Agents for the rebel bond holders in Lon
don lave issued the following call
"a meeting of bondholders will be held on
Monday the 4th of Sept next, to consider
their altered position now that the Govern
mcnt of the United States has become the
, de facto government of the Confederate States
) and if deemed expedicnt to appoint com
nittee to protect their rights and interests
and generally to take such steps as may bt
thought advisable Communications from
, bona fdc bondholders may in the meantime
: be made to the undersigned.
"TERREI., CHAMBERLAIN & BLAKE,
Solicitors for the bondholders."
Commenting upon this advertisement, tn
London Star, Of the 23d, says There is no
t in international law one shred of authority l.
It support the idea that rightful Government
Il is bound to ASSUME the debts which were con
iracted to aid in its own destruction. Th
y doctrine is so manifesty absurd that it onl
e requires to be stated to be its own refutatior
l. The Confederate bondholders are not debtor
q to the late Southern Government If the
!, we're they might, perhaps, find some theory {
- law which would absolve them from the di
o agreeable duty of paying. They are unfo
to tunately creditors, and their debtor has di
v appeared, leaving no effects which are M
:, claimed by the creditor having the preference,
u The United States claims all the cotton, a
is the ships, all the money, all the stores of tf
st Confederates in neutral countries, as well I
NJ lin the South The Stonewall has alread
= been given up to them by Spain The Sh
W nandoah will be given up by any country
w whose larbors she seeks refuge. They clai
)f all the cotton and funds of the Confedera
he Government now in this country. If sue
i. questions come before court of law in En-
- land, the judges cannot look fovorably upe
no the claims of the bondholders in connectit
b, with a loan entered into in contrayention
le. the Queens proclamation.
HEAVY PAYMENTS.
600 Washington, Sept 6.-From the LIST OF Ia
- Nav until the 3lst Of August four month
al sl92, 2,542,O95 40 was drawn from the Treas
We ry Department for the payment OF the sol
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