The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-30

braska 2, Nevada 4. New
Hampshire IL, New Jersey 27,
New York "a, North Carolina 2, Ohio
80, Oregon l, Pennsylvania Y, Rhode
Island 7, South Carolina 2, Tennessee
4, Utah l, Vermont 10, Virginia 5,
West Virginia 5, Wisconsin 80; total
766. The full list can be examined
at the post-ofice after August 9th.
Amongst the number are Henderson,
KY; Mt. Vernon, Washington, Sulli-
van, and Rockville, Ind; Marshall
and Fairfield, Ill.
The Postmaster wishes to mention
several particulars in which cores
pondents should be careful, in order
to guard against errors and accidents.
Be sure to put postdge-stamps on
letters. Revenue stamps do not pay
postage; neither do the old style of
stamps that were superseded when the
Rebellion broke out, in order to save
the United States from loss by rebel
postmasters. Also, be careful to pre-
pay your letters and printed matter in
full. Foreign letters, especially those
going in the French mail, should be
carefully weighed on the post-ofice
scales, and fully prepaid when re-
quired. The postage on papers and
periodicals, sent to United States post
offices as transient matter, is two cents
per four ounces, or fraction thereof;
on books, bound or unbound, four
cents per four ounces, or fraction
thereof.
Be careful to address letters, papers,
&C., plainly and correctly. Give the
name of the county with all small
offices if possible. This is necessary,
as there are a large number of new
offices in the country not mentioned
in the official list of post-ofices. Then
there are many instances where the
local name of town or village is not
the post-offiee name. In such cases, if
the county is not named, there is
danger of miscarriage.
The Evansville and Cairo Packet
Company are now carrying the mail,
on their Tuesday and Friday boat,
under special arrangement, to Hen
derson, Shawneetown, Golconda,
Smithland and Paducah tits hoped
that this additional mail may become
permanent, and result in regular
daily mail to all points hence to Cairo,
in charge of the Departments route
agents.
An effort has been made to have a
mail hence to Louisville, KY, on
Tuesdays and Fridays, making a regu-
lar daily mail, but so far without sue
cess. If the people on the line will
urge the matter, there is no insur-
mountable obstacle in the way of its
establishment at an early day.
Negotiations are now on foot to
send and receive Cincinnati and
Vincennes mail by the train which
leaves this place at 2:15 P. NJ, and
arrives at 9:15 AN There are diff
fculties to be overcome, but it is
thought that the mail can be started
in few days.
New contracts for all the routes
now in operation went into effect July
| 1st, except that to St. Wendell, which
is about being closed There is no
material change in the running time,
except that the Mount Vernon land
mail arrives in the evening instead of
soon after dinner, and the old Peters
burgh way mail now runs only to
Wheatonville, and arrives and departs
on Saturday instead of Friday as for
merly When the schedules are all
permanently adjusted, an official ad-
vertisement of arrivals and departures
will be published.
1t is not the fault of the Depart
ment that there is no direct mail up
Green River to Bowling Green. Pro
posals to carry one twice week were
invited last winter in the general
mail letting, but none were submitted
4 lno, ement is now on foot to obtain
a contract on that route, which it is
hoped may result favorably, as the in
terests of the public call for regular
direct mail.
LUMBER.