Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-07
POSTAGE ORDERS AND POSTAGE
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The postoffice money-order system grows
in public estimation and is used more ex-
tensively every year. The foreign part of
the business is of special interest in connec-
ton with the subject of immigration. That
fair proportion of our German fellow
citizens are doing we'll is proved by their
sending TO their old fatherland no less han
81 ,259 orders, representing SSH, 677 60, dur
ing the last three months; orders received
from G 'rmany amounted to 1921 ,0S9 %, $780,
131 81 over those of the quarter preceding.
Orders for Italy are increasing, and are
sixty-five per cent. higher than the first three
months of last year; during the last three
months they amounted to S33. 1913 81. Con
gress should reduce the rate OF orders and
make them proportionate to the charges for
letters. The charge for an order under SIS
is ten cents; over SIS and under $50, fifteen
cents; over $50 and under $40, twenty cents;
over $40 and up to $50, twenty-five cents.
The rate is unequal, and is toe high. The
American Express offers the following rates:
For orders not over $40, five cents; not
over $50, eight cents. These rates will
take the business from the government
which should charge three cents up to $40
and five cents up to $50. Itshould also adopt
the plan followed by the express and by the
English, who sell orders in numbers, so
that they can be used at conven-
fence to the place of payment
by the buyers Endorsement. The English
sell orders for twenty four cents, a shilling,
for cent; and up eighty-four cents for two
cents. The much-talked OF new five-cent
Garfield postage stamp will be issued on
Sunday. 1t is pronounced one of the most
beautiful in design and finish that has ever
appeared, and is intended for letters going
abroad. This stamp has history. Stamps
of much higher value than any We have
made are often required, and large numbers
of small stamps have to be used, which is in
convenient and causes loss OF time. The
postoffice authorities had decided to Issue a
81 stamp, with Garfeld's portrait upon it
1t was found to be illegal to use the likeness
of any living person, but after Garfeld's
death it was decided that his portrait should
be put on fve-cent stamp, and should be
the finest art could produce, and Mrs. Iar-
Held was consulted upon thS suoJect. All lhe
suggestions she made were carried out, and
the stamp Is acknowledged to be the
most perfect likeness of Garfield ex
tant. The only fault to be found is with
the color chosen, which, by the way, is Mrs
Garfeld's own choice, and to which the de-
partment and the contractors assented. A
! cold Nandyke brown is not the color, il the
opinion OF many persons, which should be
chosen to represent the highest office in the
United States. In the stamp the portrait il
three-fourths to left on lined ground within
pearled oval in proper heraldic shield. With
the intention OF keeping the stamp portrait
all inscriptions have been grouped below. A
the lower extremity OF the shield is a six
pointed star, with large numerical IS, with
ribbon on either side bearing value in let
t.rs Below all is the inscription, 80. S
Postage" The stamp will be living monu.
ment TO President Garfield. The former FIVE
cent stamp had portrait of President Tay.
| lor, which was bad both in engraving and
color. As SO much sympathy was felt in the
fate of Mr.. Garfield in countries outside our
own, it was thought appropriate that his por-
trait should appear on stamp whose use is
not confined to our own broad territory, hut
which circulates over the round globe.