Hillsborough (NC) Recorder

June 5, 1861

Page 4

 

                                        From the Fayetteville Observer

            NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS—The reader is referred to the Proclamation of the Postmaster General of the Confederate States, in another column.  We shall be glad to find that there is some improvement in this branch of public service, which comes home to the business and convenience of all.  For the present, there will be an addition to the cost of correspondence, but that we doubt not the Southern public will submit to cheerfully for the sake of the cause.  We learn from the Charleston Courier that:

            “Newspapers published within the Confederate States, not exceeding two ounces in weight, and sent from the office to subscribers within the Confederate States, are charged as follows: weeklies, ten cents per quarter; semi-weeklies, double that amount; tri-weeklies, treble that amount; papers published six times a week, sixty cents, and dailies seventy cents.

            “Periodicals published oftener than biennially shall be charged as newspapers.

            “Books, bound or unbound, not weighing over four pounds, shall be charged at two cents an ounce for any distance.

            “Double the rates specified above shall be charged upon all newspapers published beyond the limits of the Confederate States.

            “The franking privilege is abolished, except upon matter exclusively to the business of the Postoffice Department.

            “The letter registration system is also abolished.”