The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-09-09
Natiuaal @epablitau.
The Matls-City Post once.

II, fiAas, ", chief asserting clerk lot cl'y ue
livery; Simeon Ii. Serrlll, superintendent OF
money order department. ,. p kilby clerk oil
registry department; James L. Rel, sunerin-
tendent of letter carriers; Richard Lay, chief
of mailing departments Fred. Depro, special
agent.
Entrance to money-order and registry de-
partments, from street; door east Of deliv.
Entrance TO postmsster's, chief clerks,
once hours-The general delivery window
10 kept open Al all hours OF the day and night,
The Office ia open from a. m TO . p; m,
office, excepting the N oLcy Order Department,
is open from sto 10 =. m, and 10 r, m.
TiNE OF ARnivLL AND CLOSING OF MAILS.
Northern and eastern msils-lst due at $40
a. m, closes at Gas a. m; I'd due at $40 p m,
Baltimore, Md, mail-lst due at $40 a. M,
closes at CAS- =. n. I'd due at $40 p. m, closes
we.terS ais via Relay House-lst dse at
64O =. m, closes At $50 =, nj I'd due at 10 A.
m; Sd due at IL A. m. 4th due at 6.lS p. m,
southern malls, via Orange and Alexandria
R. r., for Lynehburg, Ct sttsnoosa, and New
Southern mails, Tis Richmond and Freder-
ickshurg-Ist due Att q. m, closes at s q. m;
% due At p. m, closes at 80 =. m.
Annapolis mAil-lst due ~ II 4. m, closes st
$50 g. IN.
Alexandria, Va, maiI-ist due at IL a. ~,
closes at a. nj I'd due at 40 p. m, closes at
deotgetowu, d. O., nsil-lst due at go a.
m, closes at a. nj % due at IL 3op. m, closes
Rockville, Nd, mail-Due at ep. m, closes
'Lsonardtown. Nd, msil-Arrives at 8 p. m,
Port Tobacco, Piscataway, and DufieId
mail-Due Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at
~. m; closes Tuesday, rhursday and Sstur-
Upper Marlboro, Md, msil-Due at p. m,
closes at $50 q. m.
Norfolk, Va, msil-lst due at IL a. n. =, closes
At l.3O p. m; I'd due at y. M. closes at y. IN.
On sunday, only one mail 10 received from
the North, and two from the West, South, and
Northwest.
Mails departing on this day for these routes,
close at o p, m, and for Norfolk, Old Point
Comfort and Portsmouth, atlp. m.
posTAL RULES,
Many errors occur by persons not observing
the following regulations In depositing letters,
papers, or miscellaneous publications Tor mail
All drop letters must be prepaid by postage
stamps.
Proponents by stamp. required on all let
tiers 70 places within the United states; -,
transient printed matter, foreign and domes.
tic.
All letters not prepaid by stamps; all such as
are received in tie office with stamps cut from
stamped envelopes, or with such postage
stamps as were in use prior to 1861, or with
nssSie and Sen, to the Dead Letter once
An Impression seems to prevail that letters
for Geotgetown only require two cents, or
separate once, fuiI Prepayment BY three e cent
stamp Is required.
BY inserting the county in which the office
Is located upon all letters, many errors in
superscription might be detected and mistakes
in mailing be avoided.
TERRITORIAL.
All matters conveyed by mail westward, be-
yond the western boundary OF Kansas, and
eastward, from the eastern boundary OF Cali
Gornia, except one newspaper to bona .fde
subscriber, and ranked matter, must be pre-
Postage stamp Depots-Locsl agents for
the sale OF postage stamps and stamped enyeL
places, where the public can always be sup
c. NJ. Robinson, corner of Tenth and N
Pennsylvania Avenue; p. II. Heller, corner OF
corner Of Twelfth street and Pennsylvania
avenue; r. Il. CLARK, corner OF Four-and-a.
half and NJ streets SOUTH T.. b. Bury, corner
OF Third street east and l. street south; Il. B
Ferguson, corner of First street east and
Pennsylvania avenue; Brown & Co., corner o
Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue
g. II. Haup Co, corner OF Fourteenth Al!
teenth street and New York avenue; W, II
Pearson, No. ia Pennsylvania avenue; +. u
Bowling, corner OF Four-ahd'a-hali and
Registry Ofice-valuable letters for any
part OF the United States, Holland, United
Kingdom, italian States, Africa, East Indies
Egypt, Falkland Islands, China and Australia
will be registered on application at the office
Money Order Oflce-Especial attention
is called to the money order system as a safe
through the mails Orders are Issued in sums
Of not more than $50. Larger amounts can be
transmitted to the same person at the same
time by additional orders.
RATgs.-On orders not exceeding $50, &c
centsi on orders over $40 aud up to go, q
cents.
the letter carriers will make four DELIVERED
and Ave collections, daily, in the central por
Gas OF t Tie S sed two to three de
No. necessity exists for persons calling fol
their m all st the Office, as this change will &C
commodate those who desire to receive theii
mail with promptness and dispatch.
The carriers are honest and capable, and tn,
public can rely upon being served faithfully.
made frequently enough to accommodate thos,
who desire to send local letters from one sec
tion OF the city to another, and they will hnt
greatly to their advantage to use the carrie
system for this purpose.
The deliveries will be made at :, $50 a. IN
and and p; N.
Collections from outside districts will b.
made In time for mails going North, south
in making the eaffy delivery the carrier
anticipate much delay. This may be obviate,
by househalslers adopting the door letter box
1t 10 hoped that the citizens W III immed e l.
provide letter boxes. BY that means, at
very moderate expense, they can promote tn
convenience of themselves and the neighbors
and at the same time render an important ali
to the public service.
A request for the return of a letter to tn
writer, II unclaimed within dirty days or less
written or printed, with WRITER'S name, pos
office, and state across the left eni OF thu
envelope, on the face side, y III be compiled
with.
Letters bearing such endorsements will b,
returned to the writer free Of postage.
Persons wishing their mail matter delivered
by carrier will please leave orders at the pos
ONCE, or with any carrier.
Instructions have been given to the clerks tc
deliver no letters from the boxes except to per
ders, or to those known by the clerks to be su
thoFiZed to receive them.
The rules of the office, made 10 pursuance oil
Instructions from the post office department
forbid persons not in Its immediate employ, oil
otherwise connected with its official trAnsAc
tions, from entering upon the floor. 1t II
hoped that no one, whatever his pos H. W ii
attempt to violate these rules, as they will b,
hereafter rigidly enforced. The chief clerI
will answer the calls of such as have business
that cannot be transacted by the clerks at Tn,
windows.
Persons having grievances against the off cl
on any account, Will please report the fact IL
writing,or in person,to the postmaster or chic
clerk.
IMPAIRMENT OF THBINTERIOK.
- UEITEp STATES PATEsT OFFICE,
49,, WAsHisgTOS, June Is, 1865,
On the petition q HAIRY II. BY ARTS, OF Chicago