Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-02-20

many times the box has been opened
is opened and the bell rung, the votes in
side the box will agree with the register.
IF advisable, the box can be so secured
by city clerk that no ballots can be
taken out Hntil it has been returned to
him and unlocked.
4 REMARKABLE CLAIM.-One of the
most remarkable claims ever presented
to Congress was recently passed by the
Senate. and is now before the House. 1t
is for S90S06, being the value of a ne
gro boy Is or Is years of age, who was
protected and cared for by General Ut
ley while colonel of the 22d regiment
Wisconsin volunteers. The papers in
the case show that while General Utlev
was at Lexington, KY, with his regi-
ment, a small, half-starved negro boy.
with nothing on but ragged pantaloOns
and shirt, came to his quarters in a Sc
we're snow storm. The boy was in
perishing condition, and represented that
he had been in the woods for long time,
Subsisting on black walnuts, and sleep
ing in hogs nests, until the snow storm
drove him in. This was in the fall of
1862 General Utley ordered the boy to
be taken care of, and thought no more
about it, until one William Robertson
called on him and claimed the boy as
his property and sought to take him
away. General Utley called the claim
ants attention to the additional article
of war of March 13, 1869, and said he
must be governed by that If the boy
would 90 back without force being re
sorted to. the officer would have no OBJ
iections; but the boy prayed for protec
tinn, saving that be had been hired out
to u cruel master as being 10 years OF
agy, and the hirer had beaten him and
Otherwise cruelty treated him, and he
sought protection of his owner. Robert
son. in vain. until finally he ran away
and came to the camp of General Utley
as already stated. The General refused
to give up the boy, and Robertson left
without him. 4 few days subsequently,
suit was brought against the officer for
the value of the boy. Soon afterward
| General Utlcy was taken prisoner by the
/ confederates, at Spring Hill, Tennessee,
and heard no more about the boy until
/ 1868, when suit was brought in the Cir
cult Court of Wisconsin, and judg-
ment rendered tie year before for
;190S 06, and costs, amounting to 81 $40.
Ex- Acknowledgement Speed defended
the suit. but the officer was forced to
pay the money. The Senate bin is for
the purpose of reimbursing General Ut
lev. The snit could not be appealed to
the Supreme Court of the United States,
becaus, the limit in that court is $4,000.
THE NRw POSTAL LAw.-Thc follow
ing is the full text of the new postal
law. a. it passed the House of Represen-
tativrs, Tuesday. 1t yet requires the
concurrent action of the Senate before it
car become a law.
Be il enacted, ETC.. That on and after
the first day of July next, on all mail
matter which is wholly or partly in
writing, except book, magazine and
newspaper manuscripts and corrected
/ proofs, passing between authors and
publishers, and excepting, also, CORES
Doudence or postal cards, all printed
matter which is So marked as to convey
no further information than is conveyed
/ by the original print, except the correc-
I rertiop of mere typographical errors, on
/ all matter which is sent in violation OF
I the regulations of the department re-
spoCting enclosures and on all matter to
! which no rate of postage is assigned,
hostage shall be charged at the rate OF
/ two cents for each half ounce or frac-
! tiOn thereof, and this provision shall in
! Clude all letters commonly known as
| drop or local letters, delivered through
/ DOstOfIiCeS or their carriers and maga-
/ gine manuscripts and newspaper manu-
/ scripts are hereby declared to belong to
| the third class of mailable matter.
| SEC. 2. That from and after the first
! day of January next, under such regu-
/ !ations and in such manner as the Post
maser General shall prescribe, the post
/ age provided by law to be raid upon
| printed matter or mailable matter of the
| second class. shall in all cases be pre-
| paid and collected at the offices respec-
! lively where such matter shall be mail
ed, and the postage on daily newspapers,
| not exceeding four ounces OF such copy
/ in weight shall be charged and collected at
the rate of Is cents per quarter provided
that weekly newspapers, within the re-
/ spective counties where the same are
/ printed and published and none other,
may pass through the mails free of
postage, as provided in the eighth clause
of section 1874 of the act to revise, con-
solidate and amend the statutes re-
lating to the Postoffiee Department.
SEQ. 8. That any person who shall
take any letter, postal card or packet
out of postoffice, or branch postoff1ce,
or from a letter or mail carrier, or which
has been in any post office or branch post
Office, or in the custody of any letter or
mail carrier before it shall have been
delivered to the person to whom it was
directed, with a design to obstruct the
correspondence, or pry into the business
or secrets of another, or shall seerete,
embezzle or destroy the same, shall, on
conviction thereof, for every such of
fence, forfeit and pay penalty not ex-
ceeding $500, or be imprisoned at hard
labor not exceeding one year, or both, at
the discretion of the court