Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-13
FROM WASHINGTON,
WASHINGTON. Jan. II, 1866.
ORDER FROM LIEUT.. GEN. .GRANT-PRoTECTIoy OF LOYAL
PERSONS FROM IMPROPER CIVIL SUITS.
The following order was issued to-day.
VAR DEPT, ADJ'T GEN'Ls OFFICE.


The following order was issued to-day:
WAR Dept ADJ'T GEN'Ls OFFrcr
d., MAsHINGToN, Jan. 12 1866
f Geienas ; Oraers, no SO protect loyal persons
rebelliouS Stntes, military division and departmenI
commanders whose commands embrace or are com
posed OF any OF the late rebelouS States and who
have not already done So will at once issue and
I0rce orders protecting from prosecution or sus in
9thcers and soldiers Of the armies of the United
states ana all persons thereto attached or in any
wise thereto belonging, subject to military au.
monty, charged with offences for acts done in
teher military capacity, or pursuant to orders
from proper military authority and to protecf
from suit or prosecution all loyal citizens or ncr
sons charged with offences against the rebel forca
directly OF indirectly during the existence of the re-
pelllon; and all persons their agents or employees
c1aTged with the occupation Of abandoned lands or
plantations or the possession or custody of any kind
OF property whatever who Occur led used pos essed
President or any of the civil military departments
OF the Government, and to protect them from any
penalties or damages that they may have been or
may ee pronounced or adjudged in said Courts in
any OF such cases. and also protecting coored persons
IRON prosecution in any of the said Courts charged
with otienses for which white persons are not prose
cuted or punished in the same manner and degree
BY command of
r- Lieut.. Gen, GRANT
Assistant Adjutant General
- SALE OF POSTAGE STAMPS AND ENVELOPES
Inc bill. concerning stamps and stamped en-
yeopes, introduced into the Senate TODAY hv Mr.
Dixon, authorizes the Postmaster General to sell
Such time as may be deemed proper by him. The
persons receiving them to engage to dispose of
the same under the direction and instructions of the
postmaster General, are to receive five per cent COM
mission, and are to give bond and security SEch
persons are not to sell the stamps envelopes on
credit they are to be regarded receivers of public
monies, and are to be subject to the same provisions
PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF THE POSTAL LAWS.
! he bill introduced in the Senate to-day by Mr.
Dixon, providing that after Jan'y l. 1867 no printed
matter. including newspapers. except that received
from lorelgn countries, or specially exempted shall
transmitted fkrnnrh mail ,,,,1og Il, eli
postage is prepaid.
After the first of next April prepared and dead
interested without additional postage. BY the 5th
section the Postmaster General is authorized to CON
tract with owners OF sailing vessels for transporta-
tion of the mails to foreign countries
Section 6h repea!S the law requiring undevered let
ters to be published newspapers having the largest
clreuaion and leaves the publication thereof to the
discretion of the Postmaster General.
Section oth, authorizes the issuing of money orders
only to the amount OF nifty dollars and prescribes the
fees to be charged.
Section g. provides that money orders shall not he
pad after the expiration of from the date of
its issue.
Sections Il, provide that any person tamperipe
with the contents of any letterbox, pilIar-box or
othGr receiving boxes of the POstofice Department.
shall on conviction. be liable to fine of not less than
SUO or more than 81 0O0 TO Imprisonment not less
than one, or more than three years.
Section lS and a, provides follows: Amd be /.
further enacted, That newspapers, circulars, pamph-
let's and other kinds Of printed matter deposited in
any posolice for local delivery. shall be subject to
one cent postage Tor each four ounces eXcept books
which shall be subject to postage at the rate of four
cents for each eight ounces or fraction thereof.
CONFIRMATION.
The lhe Senate to-day confirmed the nomination of
William F. Elkn of Illinois, to be Register of the
Land Office at Springfield, Illinois,
49, SOLDIERS AND SAILORS CONVENTION
The National Convention of soldiers and sailors
TO be held in this city the 22d instant promises to
be one OF the largest and most important conventions
ever held In this city. Questions of the utmost i'm
portance to all honorably discharged soldiers aud
sailors will he acted upon. Arrangements are being
made to hold grand demonstration in the CAPITOL
during the session of the convention. Delegates and
others interested can receive all necessary informa-
ton by addressing II. A. Hall, President of the Sol
dlers and Sailors League, Washington.
- DEBATE on THE NEGRO SUFFRAGE BILL.
The galleries of the House of Representatives have
for the last three days been densey crowded with at
tcntive listeners to the debate on the bill extending
suffrage in the District of Columbia Never before
were SO many blacks mixed among the white auditors
as to-day The interest amongst both classes in re-
incrnnsn