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S&e' JVlfew Agister. laws or rorriciAi..j THE UNITED AT TBI FIRST SERSIOS Or FIRST CONGRESS. STATES. THE FORTT- 1. 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. POSTAL COXVEXTIOV WITH FRAXCE, March 2, 1S57, onl Coitrention ieficeeii tie United State and Yonee. ARTICLES Agreed upon between the General ' Post-Oflico of the United States of America, by . James Campbell, in Virtue of his constitutional Powers and the General Post-Office of France, by Count de Sartipes, Minister of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, and in vested with special powers to this effect, to-wit : Article I. There shall be an exchange of eor respoBdcoco between the French Post-Office and the United States Post-Office by means of com munication and of transportation hereinafter des ignated, to-wit : 1st. By packets and other steam-Tessels per forming regulapservice between the porta of France and the ports of the United States. 2d. By United States mail-packets plying be tween the ports of the United States and the ports of Great Britain. 3d. And, finally, by British packets and other British steam-vessels perforating regular service between the ports of Great Britain and the ports of the United States. Article II. The French Post-Office shall pay the expenses revolting from the transportation be tween the United States and France of all mails which shall be transported by packets and other steam vessels, departing from and bound for France,- except those which shall be brought to France or sent from France by the United States mail packet. The French Poet-Office shall pay, besides, as follows : 1st. The expenses resulting from the transpor tation between France and England of all mails which shall be exchanged between the French and United States Post-OQioea by way of England. 2d. The transit charges due to the British Post- Office ior the said mails. 3d. And, finally, the expenses of sea transpor tation due to the same office for mails exchanged between the French Post-Office and the United States Post-Office by means of British packets and other British vessels bound for or departing from the ports of Great Britain. On its side, the United States Post-Office shall pay as fo.lows : 1st The expenses resulting from the transpor tation between the United States and France of mails which shall be despatched from one ot the two countries to the other by United States mail packets plying between France and the I ni ted States. 2d. The expenses resulting from the transporta tion between the United States and Great Britain of mails which shall be exchanged between the French and United States Post-Otfiees by means of United States mail packets plying between the ports of the United States and the ports of Great Britain. Article III. The exchange t f" correspondence between the French and United States Post-Office Departments shall take place through the follow ing post-offices : OH THE SIDE OF FRAXCE. Havre. The travelling office from Paris to.Calais. OX THE SIDE OF THE FXITED STATES. Jiew York. Boston. Philadelphia. San Francisco. Indenendent of the above-designated offices of exchange, others may be established by a mutual understanding between the respective Post-Office Departments at any other points in the territo ries of the two countries at which direct relations may hereafter be deemed necessary. Article IV. The relations between the French and the United States exchange post offices desig nated in the preceding article shall be established in the following manner : 1st. The Havre office shall correspond with the New York, Boston. Philadelphia and San Fran cisco offices, as well by the packets and other team-vessels plyins between Southampton and New York, between Liverpool andXew York, and between Liverpool and Boston. 2d. The traveling office from Paris to Calais shall correspond with the New York, Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco offices by the United States mail packets and the British packets and other British steam-vessels plying between Southampton and New York, between Liverpool and Boston. Article V. Correspondence of all kinds ex changed between the French Post-Office and the United States Post-Office shall be directed con formably to Table A, annexed to the present arti cles. Article VI. Persons who shall wish to send ordinary letters, that is to say, unregistered let ten, either from France and Algeria to the Uni ted States and their territories, or from the United States and their territories to France and Algeria, may, at their choice, leave the postage to be paid by the person addressed, or pay in advance the postage to the place of destination. The postage to be levied in France and Algeria on letters to the United States and their territories, paid to destination, as well as unpaid letters com ing from the United States and their territories, shall be established according to the weight of each letter, at the rate of eighty centimes per seven grammes and a half, or fraction of seven grammes and a half. Reciprocally, the postage to be levied in the United States and in the territories of the United States on letters for France and Algeria paid to destination, as well as on unpaid letters coming from France and Algeria, shall be established ac - cording to the weight of each letter, at the rate of fifteen cents per American quarter-ounce, or or fraction of American quarter-ounce. Article VII. The rates of postage to be paid by the French Post-Office to the United States Post-Office, aswell as on prepaid letters sent from France and Algeria as on unpaid letters sent to France and Algeria from the United States, are fixed as follows, vis : 1. At the sum of three cents per seven grammes and a half, or fraction of seven grammes and a half, on each letter transported between the French frontier and the American frontier at the expense or on account of the French Post-Office. 3. At the sum of nine cents per seven grammes and a half, or fraction of seven grammes and a half, for each letter transported between the Amer ican frontier and the British frontier for or from France at the expense of the United States Post Office. 7 2. And at the sum of twelve cents per seven grammes and a half, or fraction of seven grammes and a half, for each letter transported between the American frontier and the French frontier direct, or "when touching only atone intermediate English port without passing through England, at the expense of the United States. As to the rates of postage to be paid by the United State Post-Office to the French Post-Office, as well for prepaid letters sent from the United ,, .States fur France and Algeria as for unpaid letters sent from Franee and Algeria for the United States, they are fixed as follows 1. At the ram of three cents per American quarter-ounce, or fraction of American quarter ounce, for each letter transported between the American frontier and the Freneh frontier direct. or when touching only at one English port with out passing through England, at the expense of the united estates. - - - - J. At the mi of six cent per American quarter-ounce, or fraction of American quarter-ounce, for each letter transported between the American frontier and the British frontier, for or from France, at the expense or toe unitea estate fost-Office. s And at the sum of twelve cents per Ameri can quarter-ounce, or fraction of American quar-ter-oonee, for each letter transported between the ' Freneh frontier and the American frontier at the -expense or on account ot the frencn .Post-Office. - Article VIII. ; Ordinary letters sent by way of France either from the United States and their territories for the countries mentioned in Table B, annexed to the present articles, or from these came conn trios for the United States and their territories, shall be exchanged between the French Post-Office and the United States Post-Office on (he conditions stated in the said table. , Ordinary letters sent by way of the United States, either from France "and Algeria, for the countries mentioned in Table C, annexed to the present articles, or from those same countries for France and Algeria, shall be exchanged between the French Post-Office and the United States Post- , Office on the condition stated in said Table C. It is understood that, in case the conventions which reguLiie the relation of France with the foreign countries designated in Table B should be modified in such manner to affect the conditions of exchange stated in that table; and reciprocal ly that, in case the conventions which regulate the relation of the United State with the foreign eeuntrie designated in Table 0 should in a like manner be modified so a to affect the conditions of transmission stated in that table, these modifi cation shall be admitted on the one part and on the other, according to the information and evi htrh the two Dort-offioes of France and "the United Elates shall reciprocally famish one to rtMIS, Letters addressed or Vndjj directed shall without delay be reciprocally re turned by means of the respective exchange offi ces, for the sum which the office sending shall hove allowed the other office on these letters. Letters which shall have been addressed to per sons who have changed their residences shall be respectively delivered or returned, charged with the postage which should have been paid by the persons addressed. : Article X. 1 be rates which the two post-offices of France and the United States shall mutually have to carry to each other's account, shUl be marked on the letters at the exchange office from which they are sent, in ordinary figures, plainly and uniformly, on the right hand of the upper part of the address. - The rate of letters unpaid to be carried to the debit of tbe corresponding office by the sending office shall be marked in black ink ; those pf pre paid letters to be carried to the credit of tbe cor responding office sholl be marked in red ink. Article XL The United States Post-Office shall cause to be placed on the address of the pre paid letters which the United States offices of ex change shall deliver to tbe French offices of ex change, this impression (faid), stamped in red ink. On its side, the French Post-Office shall cause the impression (p I), stamped in red ink, to be placed on tbe letters prepaid to destination, which shall be delivered by the French offices of ex change to the United States offices of exchange. Article XII. The respective offices of exchange shall place upon the superscription of tho corres pondence of every kind contained in the mails which they shall receive from the corresponding offices of exchange, a stamp, with the date, show ing the way in which such mails shall have been forwarded. - The stamp to be placed upon the correspondence transported between the French frontier and the American frontier, at the expense of or on ac count of the Post-Office of France, shall bear, in dependently of the name of the exchange office of destination, the characters Serv. Fr. or Br. (French or British Service.) This stamp shall be placed in blue ink on tbe correspondence trans mitted directly, and in red ink on tbe correspond ence transmitted by way of England. The stamp to be placed on the correspondence transported between the American frontier and the French frontier, or the British frontier, at th-s expense of the United States Post-Office, shall bear, independently of the name of the exchange office of destination, the characters of Serv. Am. (American Service.) This stamp shall be placed in blue ink, both on the correspondence transmit ted direct and on that comprised in the mails of or for the office of Havre, which shall have been transported by the packets of the New York line to Bremen, and by the packets plying between Havre and Southampton, without touching the British territory. It shall be placed in red ink on the correspondence comprised in the mails which shall have been transported by the aid of me cruisn rost-urace. Article XIII Each of the mails exchanged between the exchange offices of the two countries shall be accompanied by aletter bill, orstatement, showing the nature, the number, and the weight of the articles which the mail shall contain, as well as the amount of rates mentioned in Article X. The exchange office in which the mail shall be addressed shall acknowledge its receipt to the ex change office transmitting it, by the next convey ance. Tbe letter bills or statements, or the acknowl edgments of receipt, of which the French offices of exchange shall make use, shall be conformable to the model D, annexed to the present articles. The letter bills or statements and the acknowl edgments of receipt, of which the United States exchange olfices shall make use, shall be conform able to the model E, in like manner annexed to the present articles. Article XIV. In eases where, on the days fixed for sending the mails, an office of exchange shall have no letter to address to the correspond ing exchange office, the office of transmission shall, nevertheless, send in the ordinary form, a mail, which shall contain a negative letter bill or statement. Article XV. Letters which cannot be delivered from any cause whatever shall be returned on one p irt and the other, at the end of each month, and more frequently if possible. Those of such letters which shall have been placed in tbe account shall be returned for the sum at which they have been originally counted by the sending ollice. Those which shall hare been delivered prepaid to desti nation or to the frontier of the corresponding of fice shall be returned without charge or deduction. The deduction resulting from charges on corres pondence which eannot be delivered shall be es tablished in detailed memorandums, conformable to the model F, annexed to the present articles. Article XVI. There shall be prepared every three mouths, at the French General Post-Office, precise accounts, recapitulating the facts relative to the transmission of correspondence between the respective olfices of exchange. These accounts, which shall have for their base and for vouchers the acknowledgments of receipt of mails sent and received during the period of three months, shall be recapitulated in a general account, intended to present the definite results of the transmission of correspondence exchanged between the two de partments. After having been disenssed and objections set tled, the balance of the general account above mentioned shall be paid by toe department which shall be fonnd indebted to the other in the course of the quarter which shall follow that to which the accouut relates. The amount of the accounts shall be paid as follows : 1st. In drafts on Washington when tbe payment shall be in favor of the United States Post-Office. 2d. In drafts on Paris when the payment shall be made in favor of the French Post-Office. In the latter case tbe amount of the account ball be paid in French money, at the rate of five francs thirty centimes per dollar. Article XV II. The present articles sha'l take effect on the first day of April, 1857, and they shall remain "obligatory until one of the two post offices shall have informed tbe other, a year in advance, of its intention to abrogate them. Daring this last year the before-mentioned arti cles shall continue to be fully and entirely execu ted, without prejudice to the liquidation and pay m;nt of the amount of the accounts between the postal departments of the two countries after the expiration of the said term. Made in duplicate original auu siguea at asn- ington, the second day of March, in the year or our Lord one thousand eight hundred and flfty- JAMES CAMPBELL, seal. P. M. Oeneral, - ... SARTIGES, seal. " DETAILED REGULATIONS Arranged between the General Post-Office of the United States of America and the General Post Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Execution of the Conven tion of the twenty-fourth day of November, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. Article I. Each office shall send mails by well appointed steamships of approved speed, sailing on stated days between Liverpool and New York, or Boston and New York, or Boston and Liver pool via Queenstown ; and also between South ampton and New York, and between New York and Southampton, as often as. such steamships shall be despatched ; Provided that the mails so sent shall not be delayed by such mode of des patch, and provided that the cost of transit can be arranged by each office in accordance with the rates which that office may think it right to pay for the conveyance of mail matter. If it be shown by either office that the sending of any portion of the international letters to any designated port cause a delay to such letters, it is agreed that the other office shall cease to send such letters to said port unless when letters are specially addressed to be so Sent. Article II. Accommodation for the sortation of letters on board shall be provided by the des patching office when desired by the office te which the mails are sent; the two offices to determine by mutual consent, whether sorting Officers, if employed, shall belong to the British or to the United States Post-Offices, or partly to the one and partly to the other ; the salaries of the sort ing officers to be paid by that office to which the officers belong. Article III. The following shall be the regu lations for the exchange ot mails between the British and the United States Post-Offices - -1. The office of London shall exchange mails with the offices of Boston, New York, Philadel phia, Baltimore, Portland, Detroit, Chicago, and San Francisco. i , ' -' " The office of Liverpool shall exchange mails with the office of Boston, New York, Philadel phia, Baltimore, Portland, Detroit, Chicago, and San Francisco. Theoffieeof Southampton shall exchange mails with the offices of Boston, New York,Philadelphia and Ban Fraaeisoo. - - 4. - The office of Dublin shall exchange mails mm mo omces ot Boston, Hew York, Philadet phia, Portland, Detroit, Chicago, and San Fran Cisco. . a. . Tbe office of Cork shall exchange ' mails with the offices of New Y'ork and San Francisco. 6. The office of Londonderry shall exchange mail with the offices of Boston, New York, Phil adelphia, Portland, Detroit,' Chicago, and Ban Franeiseo. - --. . . . tmr. 1. The office of Glasgow shall exchange mailt with the office of Boston, New York, Philadel phia, Portland, Detroit, Chicago, and San Fran- 8. The office of New York shall send mails to the British packet office at St. Thomas, (West Indies. I 9. The British packet office at Panama (United States ot Colombia) and exchange mails with the offices of New York and San Francisco. 10. Tbe office of New York shall send mails to the British packet office at Colon. 11. The office of Now York shall send mails to tho Pritish packet office at San Juan, (Porto Rico.) Article IV. The mails which are sent from the office of New York to the British packet office at St. Thomas shall comprise correspondence pass ing between the United States of America and tbe British and Foreign West Indies. Upon the correspondence despatched from New Y'ork to St. Thomas, addressed to any foreign port iu the West Indies, the United States Post Oflice shall account to the British Post-Office at the rate of four pence per half onnce for letters and one penny each for newspapers. The mails which are exchanged between the British packet office at Panama and the offices of New York and San Francisco, shall comprise cor respondence passing between tbe states on the western coast ot South America, or the British colonies of Australia and New Zealand and the TtnitArl Atnttta fif America. . Upon the correspondence despatched from New lork or San Francisco to ranaina, addressed to any of those states or colonies, the United States Post-Office shall account to the British Post-Office as follows : : j 1. Upon correspondence addressed to the states on the western coast of South America. Is. 0J. for each half ounce letter. 2rl. for eaqh newspaper. 3. per 4 ox. for book packets. ' 2. Upon correspondence addressed to the Brit ish colonies in Australia or to New Zealand. 6d. for each half-ounce letter. 2d. for each newspaper. 3rf. per 4 ox. for book packets. The same rates shall be accounted for by tbe United States Post-Office upon unpaid letters and newspapers originating in the States on the west ern coast of South America, in Austalia or New Zealand, despatched from Aanama, addressed to tho United States. Tbe mails which are exohanged .between the British packet office at Colon an the office at New York, shall comprise correspondence passing between the United States of Colombia and the United States of America. Upon the correspondence despatched from New Y'ork to Colon, addressed to tbe United States of Colombia, tbe United States Post-Office shall ac count to the British Post-Office at the rate of tour pence per haf-ouuee letter and) one penny each lor newspapers. Tbe mails which nre sent from the post-office of New York to the British packet office at San Juan (Porto Rico) shall comprise correspondence passing between the Lniteu states ot America and the Island of Porto Rico. Upon the correspondence despatched from New York, addressed to Porto Rico, the United States Post-Office shall account to the British Post-Office at the rate of four pence per half-ounce for letters and one penny each for newspapers. Article V. Upon ordinary correspondence des patched from the United States in ordinary mails, by way of the United Kingdom, addressed to the countries and colonies enumerated in Table A, annexed to the present regulations, the United Stales Post-Office shall '.account to the British Post-Office for the rates of postage set forth in that table. Articla VI. Upon ordinary correspondence des patched from tho United Kingdom, in ordinary mails, by way of the United States, addressed to the countries and colonies enumerated in Table B, annexed to the present regulations, the British Post-Office shall account to the United States Post-Ofllce at the rates of postage set forth in that table. Article VII. The exchange of registered let ters and other postal packets between the post offices of the United Kingdom and the post-offices of the United States shall be regulated as follows: The letters, Ac, shall be entered, with all the necessary details, on special lists according to form C annexed to the present regulations. The registered letters, Ac, and the nominal list, shall be then tied together with a cross string and placed in a canvas bag, of an orange color, which shall be securely tied at the neck by a string, the ends of which shall be scaled with the seal of the despatching office. Tbe registered letters, thus made up, shall be placed in the mail of which they form a part. Tho number of registered letters entered on the special list must be specified at full length, in words, in the place reserved for the purpose at the foot of the letter bill. If it should happen that there are no registered letters to be forwarded, a blank list shall be en closed as usual in tbe orange colored canvas bag. The special lists sball be retained by tbe office to which they are sent, which shall simply ac knowledge the receipt, numerically, of the regis tered letters received by it, by the next list which it shall have to send to the corresponding office. In case of any difference or error being discov ered on tbe opening of tbe mails, the attention of the dispatching office shall be called to the cir cumstance by the first post. Article VIII. The United States Post-Offico may deliver to the British Post-Office registered .letters, newspapers, book packets, and patterns or samples of merchandise addressed to the under mentioned countries or colonies, viz : Capo of Good Hope ; Ceylon ; Constantinople ; East Indies ; Egypt, via : Alexandria, Suet, and Cairo; I'aulkland Islands; Gambia; Gibraltar; Gold Coast; Hong Kong; Java; Lagos; La buan; Liberia; Malta; Mauritus ; Natal; New South Wales; Queenland; St. Hulena; Sierra Leone; South Australia ; Tasmania; Victoria; Western Australia. ; On its side, the British Post-Offiee may deliver to the United States Post-Office registered letters addressed to the under-mentioned colonics: Canada : New Brunswick ; Nova Scotia. Article IX. The following regulations shall be observed with respect to the registered letters re ferred to in the preceding article : - The United States Post-Office shall account to the British Post-Office for the sum of four pence, in addition to the postage due to the British Post- office upon every registered letter, newspaper, book packet, and pattern or sample of merchan dise originating in tne united states ana aa- dressed to any of the countries or colonies enume rated in the preceding article. Ou its side, the iiriusn 1'ost omce snau account to the United States Post-Office for the sum of eight cents, in addition to the postage due to tbe United States Post-Umce upon every regisiereos letter originating in the United Kingdom and ad dressed to any of the colonies enumerated in the preceding article. Article A. every mail passing oeiween wo oi fiees of exchange of the respective post-offices shall be accompanied by a letter bill specifying the amount of postage due to eacn omce on eacn class of correspondence. The Office to which tne mail is aaaressea snau acknowledge the receipt by the next post. The letter bills from tne omces oi i,onaoo, Liverpool, Southampton, Dublin, Cork, London derry, and Glasgow, for tbe offices of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Portland, Detroit, Chicago, and San Francisco, shall be in conformity with the form D annexed to tbe pres ent regulations, f Tbe forms of letter bills wmcn tne omces oi Boston, New York, Philadelphia, . Baltimore, Portland. Detroit, Chicago, ana ban rrancisco shall nse, in their communications with the fore going British offices of exchange, shall agree with the patterns above oescnoea. - . ..... , The letter bill from the offices of New York, and San Francisco, for the British packet office at Panama, shall be in conformity with the form F annexed to the present regulations. The letter bill from the office of New York, for the British Packet office at Colon, shall be in conformity with the form G annexed to the pres ent regulations, i ; , - The letter bill from the office of New York, for the British packet office at St. Thomas, shall be in conformity with the form H annexed to the present regulations. ... Article XI. The respective offices of exchange shall mark with red ink, in ordinary figures, on the upper, right-hand corner of the address of paid letters passing in transit, the amount due to the office to which the letters are transmitted ; and, in like manner, shall mark; with blank ink, on unpaid letters passing in transit, the amount due to the despatching office. Article XII. The respective offices of exchange shall divide tbe correspondence which they shall mutually exchange into as many distinct packets as there are different articles in the letter bills. To each packet shall be attached a label show ing tbe number of the article in the account, a well as the amount of. postage to be brought to account in respect to the matter covered by the label. The labels which the respective offices of exchange- shall make , nse of, in virtwe of the tiro- visions of the present article, shall be printed as follows: 1. On pink paper for paid international corres pendence. - 2. On yellow paper for paid transit eorres-nondence. 3. On white paper for unpaid correspondence, whether international or transit. - ' 4. And on blue paper for matter giving; rise" to no account. . . . . Article XIIT. Dead letters, newspapers, ate., which cannot be delivered, from whatever cause, hall be mutually returned after the expiration of very mentis - . v- . Such of those letters, etc., as shall have been I charged in the account, shall be returned for the same amount of postage which was originally charged by the sending office, and shall be allow ed in the discharge of tho account of the office to wmcn they were transmuted. . t Dead lettn. which mav have been receiv ed in closed mails, and which cannot be produced ty the office which has to claim tne amount, snau be admitted for the same weight and amount of postage which was originally charged upon such letters, Ao.; in the accounts of the respective of fices, on a declaration, or on list vouching for the amount of postage demanded. Article XIV. Letters forwarded for the purpose of annoying or injuring the parties to whom they are addressed (the postage of which both offices are authorized to return to the public even after they have been opened) may be included and ad mitted with the dead letters mutually returned. Article XV. Ordinary registered letters, book packets and patterns of merchandise, misdirected or missent, shall be reciprocally returned without delay, through the respective offices of exchange, for the same weight and amount of postage a? which they were charged by the dispatching office to the other office. The articles of a like nature' addressed to per sons who have changed their residence shall be mutually forwarded or returned, charged with tbe rate that would have been paid by the re ceivers. Article XVI. The detailed regulations agreed upon between the post-offices of the United King dom and of the United States, in the convention signed at London on the ISth of June, 1867. shall cease to have effect on and from the day on which the present detailed regulations shall be put into operation. Done in duplicate and signed in London the seventh day of November, and in Washington tho twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight seal. JOHN TILLEY, Secretary Oeneral Post-Office, London. JOSEPH BLACKFAN, Seperintendent Foreign Mails, General Poet-Office, .Washington, seal. POSTAL CONVENTION WITH FRANCE. Additional articles to tbe Postal Convention of March 2, 2857, between the Genera Post-Office of tbe United States of America and the General Post-Office of France. Article I. Independently of the correspondence which shall be exchanged between the post-offices of tbe two countries by tbe routes pointed out in Article I. of the convention of March two, one thousand eight hundred an fifty-seven, those of fices shall mutually forward from one to the other letters, newspapers, and printed matter of all kinds, by the Canadian mail packets, plying be tween Liverpool and Portland, or between Liver pool and River du Loup. Article II. The provisions of Articles II., VI., VII., VIIL, IX., X., XI., XIV.. XV., and XVI., of the convention of M&rch 2, one thous and eight hundred and fifty-seven, concerning letters exchanged between tbe French Post-Office and the United States Post-Office by British packets and other British steam vessels perform ing regular service between the ports of Great Britain and the ports of the United States, shall apply to letters which shall be exchanged be tween the two post-offices by the route pointed out in the preceding article. Article III. The exchange of correspondence between the French and United States Post-Office Departments shall take place through the follow ing post-offices : OS THE SIDE OF FRANCE. 1. Havre. 3. the traveling office 2. Paris. Paris to Calais. ON THE Sim OF THE UNITED STATES. 1. New Y'ork. 4. Portland. 1. Boston. . 5. Detroit. 3. Philadelphia. 6. Chicago. Article IV. The relations between the French and the United States exchange post-offices, de signated in the preceding article, shall be estab lished in the following manner: 1st. The Havre office shall correspond with the New York, Bostot, and Philadelphia offices as well by th packets and other steam vessels ply ing between Havre and New York, as by the United States mail packets, the British packets, and other British steam vessels, and the Cana dian packets performing regular Service between the ports of Great Britain and the ports of the United States, or River du Loup ; and with the Portland, Detroit, and Chicago offices, by the Canadian packets plying between Great Britain and Portland, or Biverdu Loup. 2d. The Paris of lice and the traveling office from Paris to Calais shall correspond with the New Yt-rk, Boston, and Ph ladelphia offices by tne I nited states mail Packets, tne British pack ets and other steam vessels, and the Canadian packets performing regular service between the ports ot Great lritain and the ports of the United States, or Kiverdu Loup: ana with the 1'ortiaud Detroit, and Chicago offices by tbe Canadian packets plying between Great Britain and Port land, orKiver du Loup. Article V . Ihe correspendence of all kinds ex changed between the French Post-Office and the Lulled states .Post-Office shall be directed con formably to Table A., annexed to the present ar ticles. It is understood that the provisions of the aforesaid table may be modified .by correspond ence between the two offices, whenever these two offices mutually see the necessity for such modi fication. Article VI. The present articles shall be con sidered as additional to the postal convention of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and htty-seven, and shall come into operation on the first day of April, one thousand eight nun dred and sixty-one. Done in duplicate and signed at n ashington the twenty-second of February, and at Paris the eighth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. llUKAlIUkf.NU, SEAL) Postmaster-General of the United States. STOURM, seal Postmaster-General of France. Governor Blasdell of Nevada Mistaken for a Chinese Giant. The Chicago Tribune, 31st ultimo, has the following : Governor Blasdell of Nevada, is one of those individuals whom nature framed in one of her most generous moods, and is chiefly celebrated for his length of limb as well as towering stature.. While on a visit to this city, he found a room big enough to accommodate his elephantine proportions in one of our principle ho tels. One evening he took into his head that he would visit Chang, the celebrated Chinese - Giant, who was then on exibi tion at Aiken's Museum. He was lucky enough to be one of the first visitors, and so got a chance to see his great Oriental rival. -' Ihcre were a large number, how ever, who were not so fortunate and who were obliged to 'stand around until their turn came. Having sattshed his cunosi ty, the Governor prepared to elbow his way through the crowd, and had suc ceeded in reaching the second floor, when a low hum creeled his appearance. This soon broke into exclamations something like tbe following i "There he is !" " That's him 1" ' "There's the Chinese Giant I" An eager crowd pressed around His Excellency, and much to his mdig nation, began taking him by the hands, and asking mm an sorts or questions The distinguished gentleman was so ov erwhelmed that it was some time before he could recover himself. ! He was saved all further trouble, however, by a gentle man in the throng who stepped up and said to- the crowd r " Ladies and gen tlemen, you are in error ; this is a case of mistaken identity, This gentleman is not the ;' Chinese Giant,: but only the Governor, of - Nevada." , It is unnecessa ry to Say that tnere was but few in the crowd who did not enjoy the joke im- mensely. , - Ji.' young man,' accompanied by his lady love, stopped at a ot. Liouis Doara in (? bouse for 'dinner not-long since Never havinsr seen fish balls, he handed one to his lady, under the impression that it-was dOTghuut. After breaking his own ODen. he carefully examined it thenmelt of it. -and with a sepulchral voice" said, ' Matilda,, don't eat that doughnut there is something dead ID this J"".?"-! tf j vs .' i'frj . ! Remarkable Woman. On Monday ) evening a masculine looking woman named F. L. Siegel came to Meriden, asking for assistance from the members of the Grand. Army of this city. 5 She was directed to 8. A. Smith, Quarter master of Merriam Post, and a committee investigated her claims. Her papers were found to be quite correct, and tho .fost paid her board for the night and her fare as far as Hartford. Her case is a very extraordinary one, and she is a very extraordinary woman, if all told of her be true. She is a German by birth, but speaks good English, is about thirty five years of age, stands nearly six feet nigu, iias uaiK nair ana eyes, is ot a rough, weather-beaten complexion, chews tobacco and swears like a pirate. Her story is this : The beginning of the war found her and her husband in Missouri, and ill-prepared for the bad time coming, so she dressed herself in male attire and joined the .thirteenth Missouri cavalry as a private, fehe served two years, and her sex was never discovered, fahe fought in the battles ot Shiloh and Stone River, and took part in eighteen skirmishes, being once wounded in the arm. The gentleman who favored us with our in formation inquired if her sex was not then discovered.. She answered , -in the negative, and baring one of her brawny arms, displayed a muscle a navy might envy. Her general development is like that of a man, being flat breasted and having scarcely any waist. She admits that it is only by tight lacing she can make herself at all of a feminine appear ance. During her Career in the army she had a muss with one of her comrades, and they fought it out, the woman prov ing the best man. She was discharged at the end of two years' service, and pro duced her papers to our informant for examination, together with other docu ments from well-koown men in support of her story. On obtaining her discbarge she procured an engagement in the Gov ernment detective service, in which she continued a year, arresting bounty jump ers and deserters, except three months of the time, when she was employed as nurse on board the United btates ship Tamerlaine, stationed at Galveston, Texas. Y e had omitted to state that between her discharge and employment in the detective service she was taken prisoner by rebel guerrillas and kept tor fifteen days, fche was then permitted to go on to Missouri, iter husband is now in New York, sick and without employment, and she is striving to obtain funds to emigrate to the West. For this purpose she is now on her way to friends at Nashua, New Hampshire, where she ex pects to obtain assistance. A short time ago she was insulted in the streets by a -New lork ruthan, but she administered a terrible left-hander on the eye, and put the orb into eclipse, lioth she and her assailant were arrested and taken before Police Court. The Police Judge in quired with what weapon she had struck the insulting individual, and she replied, " with nature's weapon," displaying a fist that would fell an ox. Ihe judge pre sented her with a hawthorn billy, loaded with lead, he had just received from a prisoner, and told her to use that in the future when molested. She handles the weapon like a Trojan, and displayed it to great advantage among the astonished bidders of the hotel where she stopped last night, fehe leaves this morning on the 8:45 cars to Hartford, where she will apply for further assistance to aid her in reaching Nashua. Mtriden ( Conn.) JiejniOlican, Jan. O. An Irish counsel, being questioned by a judge to know for whom he was concern ed, replied as follows. " I am concern ed, my lord, lor tbe plaintiD, but X am employed by the defeudant." ADVERTISEMENTS. BLACKSMITH IN ! PLOWS ! PLOWS ! PLOWS IIIE undersigned gives notice to the general public, that he is uow manufacturing the Cralesburg Patent Plow ! and any other style of plow that may be ordered. Also, particular attention paid to Horse Shoeing, Wagon and Darrlage Making, and Oeneral Jobbing. All work entrusted to me will receive prompt! attention, and be executed in the best possible manner with good material. A share of public patronage is solicited. Shop on corner Ellsworth and Second streets. opposite Pie-ee' Ferry. F. WOOD, Albany, .November Zl, ISfiS-ll CRAFTSMEN'S LIFE ASSUMME COMPANY OF NEW YORK. Ill CIIAiVAIV & MEARS, GENERAL AGENTS FOB Oregon, and Washington, Idano and Montana Territories, - NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. PORTLAND. ....OREGON. NATIONAL LIFE Insurance Company OF THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA. WASHINGTON, D. C. Chartered by special Act of Congress, Approved ...July 25, 1868 Cash Capital, $1,000,000.00 JfEW ADVERTISEMENT. DIRECTORS: CLARENCE II. CLARK, JAY COOKE, W. O. MOORHEAD, GEORGE F. TYLER, J. HINCKLEY CLARE, E. A. ROLLINS, HENRY D. COOKE, W. F. CHANDLER, JOHN D. DEFREES, EDWARD DODE, H. C. FAHNESTOCK. OFFICERS; CLARENCE E. CLARK, Philadelphia, Presi- dent. JAY COOKE, Chairman Finance- A Executive Committee. HENRY D. COOKE, Washington, Vice Presi dent. EMERLON AT. PEET, Philadelphia, Secretary 4 Actuary. E. S. TURNER, Washington, Assistant Sec retary. FRANCIS G. SMITH, M. D., MedieaJ Director. J. EWING MEARS, M. D., Assistant Medical Director. THE attention of persons coatempistiBg in suring their lives, or increasing the amount of insurance they already have, is called to the special advantages offered by the NATIONAL Llik, 1JNUU.KAJNC.B CUJUfANI. THE ADVANTAGES OFFERED ARE: It is a National Company, chartered by special Actor Congress, lobs. It has a Paid-up Capital of $1,0 W.0t. It offers Low rates of Premium. ' It furnishes Larger Insurance than other Com panies tor the same money. It is Definite and Certain in its Terms. ' It is a Home Company in every locality. Its Policies are exempt from Attachment. There are no Unnecessary Restrictions in the Policies. Every Policy is Non-forfeitable. Policies may be taken which Pay to the Insured their Full Amount and Return all tbe Pre miums, so that the Insurance costs Only the Interest on the Annual Payments. Policies may be taken that will Pay to the In sured, after a certain number of years. Dur ing Life, an Annnal Income of One-Tenth the Amount named in the Policy. No Extra Rate is charged for risks upon tbe Lives of Females. Insures not to Pay Dividends, but at so low a cost that dividends will be impossible. ITS POLICIES ARE NEGOTIABLE. By the Charter of the Company, certificates of obligations will be issued, agreeing to purchase its policies at their value which, when accompa nied by the policy duly assigned or transferred, are negotiable, and may be used as collateral se curity, in making, loans from the Company or from other parties. NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL- LIFE .INSURANCE CO. . , OP BOSTON - " , Purely 2UTutruua,le. " INCORPORATED 1835. ' 'I" Cash assets .... ...........17,000,000 00" Cash Dividend, 1867 626,573 65- Cash Dividend, 1868.. .... 786,197 8 Total surplus dividend................ 3,612,771 00 Losses paid in 1868 675,500 00 Total losses paid. 8,342,100 00 Income for 1867.......................... 2,852,031 41 No extra charge for traveling to and front tb Atlantic States, Europe, Oregon, or the Sandwich Islands. - ........ ,j ... ... All Policies non-forfeiting, and go vemed by th non-forfeiting law of Massachusetts, , , Policy holders the only persona who receive d In derds in this Company, which are declared and paid annually ; first dividend avail- ' , able at the payment of tbe second ' annual premiums. All Policies i remain in force as long as there is any surrender :.- ' ' ,. value. - jvo rosrejTCJtss t , . This old and popular Company, (the oldest If a- tuai Xtiie insurance Company in this country) insures at the low- est possible rates. . :-..!? t The stability of this Comnaiv. with iu aaat hub tory, increasing capital and business, and the sat isfactory manner in which ft has discharged its obligations in the past, are guaran eee Tor thai future sneh as fax-seeing and earefnl men require in their investments. . ; . t- Persons generally, who thoroughly understand! the workings of Life Insurance, are anxious Up avail themselves of its equitable provisions. ' Fall information will be given to those who desire, at tbe Agency. - Homa Office, 39 State Street, Beatea . Pacifio Branch Offices, 30 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Boom 3, Carter' Building, Portland, Oregon, EVERSON & HAINES, Oeneral Afta. RIJSSELf, fc EtKIIVS, Agtm, ALBANY, ) OREGON, 'f 1 1 Albany, September 19, 1868-2y . j V "GAY" IVES- Farmers Can Ride and Plow, .6 BT SECtTRIHO OR OF TKM ' The Hon. Jno. E. Sanford, Insurance Commis sioner of Massachusetts, in his Report for 1868, speaking of Dividends in Life Insurance Compa nies, says , " The sooner such guarantees cease to be made, and snch expectations created, the sooner Life Insurance will come to rest on its true motive, and men insure their lives for security, and not for dividends. The best and the most popular companies will then be those that prom ise only equity, and render all that they promise, and furnish the best security, with the most np right and judicious management." "By the Stock plan the full cash effect of the premium is immediately secured to the insured, tbe Company taking all tbe risk. - By the Mu tual plan, tbe full value in insurance of the pre mium paid, is not secured to the policy-holder, who takes a portion of the risk himself." ! Cash Plan, Low Rate, Strictly Mutual. All Policies Non-Forfeiting by their Terms. No Restriction on Travel, Residence or Occupation. Policies issued in Gold or U. S. Curren cy, as desired. No extra charge upon women. All varieties of Policies issued. Large Cash Value upon Surrendered Policies. . octO-5 13. 8. MERRILL, Agent, . J Albany, Dege, Policies Issued la Gold or Currency, WM. E. HALE, MANAGER. AVELLS, FARGO & CO., GENERAL AGENTS FOR THE PACIFIC COAST. GAT" PLOWS, Manufactured and sold for the very low price of S$0 and 45. , : Q THE simplicity and practicability of tals new Plow commends it favorably to tie special notice of every farmer: It possesses a decided superiority over all other plows now in nse. The wheels are four feet in- diameter, and ran on tho nnplowed land. Its entire coastrnction is in no way complicated. The plow is managed in every manner with ease, and requires only two lever to be used in making any alteration. - Tho supe riority of the "Gay" Plow will be cleaxly shown by the following certificate : , We, the undersigned, citisens of Lin county, Oregon, having purchased and used upon oar farms the "Gay" Plow, hereby certify that tho same has given os entiresatisfaction. Its facility for adjusting to suit tbe depth of furrow without niovig front the seat, is simple and easy. Wo like the plow for its draught, because the same ie broagbt to bear directly upon tbe plow-beam in stead of tne carriage ; also, became it is strong and durable, all except the weeeVwork being con structed of wrought iron no ea tings are need, Tbe wheels running npon the solid land is an ad vantage over other gsng-plows, in striking off" land and in plowing, not having to make the nec essary changes in the machinery, and tbe scat ie always level, not thr wing tbe driver forward or sideways as in other plows. Better work and more of it can be accomplished by tbe nse of tbia flow man ny Band. ;-. We take pleasure in recommending the "Qat" Plow to onr brother farmers, as one having; no superior in vregon. J. O. REED, A. 8. LOONET, W. n. GOLTTREE. May 20th, 1869. W. P. ESHOM, . E. W. PIKE, II. DAVIDSON: Tbe "Gat" Plow is manufactured br H. Goulding, Portland Machine Shop. All orders will be promptly attended to by ad dressing, ..: . . C V. CAY, Portland, Oregon. Albany Agents. J. BARROWS CO., Agents ' for Linn Benton counties. -' JOHN BRIGGS, Agent for Linn A Benton counties. May 22, '69-37 TUB OLD STOVE DEPOT! JOHN BIUGCiS, BBALBK STOVES, COOK, PARLOR & BOX, 1 of the best patterns!' -, ALSO . Tin, Sheet iron aiid Copper War t and tbe usual assortment of Furnishing Goods to : ... ve ooiamea in a , St Re-pa irt neatly and promptlg esreented, fSem reasonable terms. "BfeS : "Short reckonings, make long friends.". - rront street ................. ......... Albany Next door to Mansfield & Co. decS'68-13 - "; 1. C. .TIErDKAXXAL.l., TRAVELING AGENT Tot Ore and WMUaftea Territory. Albany, September II, 186-lt4 -. jfcjjjjf MAKING THE 1 , EvniYvimcFw client cr.o., ac::jts, 6ALSM, OREGON, " ft