Requires a stamp expressly for Life In
surrnce Policies, to SI,OOO, 25 cents; to
$5,000, 50 cents; toar.y amount over $5,-
000, $1-
LEASE.
All amounts of rent are the same, but
time varies the amount of stamp ;so 3 yeais,
50 cents; exceeding three years, sl.
LEGAL DOCUMENTS.
All processes by the which any suit is com
menced in any Court, 50 cents.
All processes issued by a Justice of
the Peace, and cnmal proceedings are ex
empt.
Ill— • •
The Oregon Gold Mines.—luform
aion has been received that in Septem
ber last there were in the Powder River
Valley, Oregon, forty thousand settlers.
On the Ist of August there were not one
hundred white men in that rich ’.alley.
About that time fifty-three started for vhis
valler, and seventeen of the number were
killed by Indians before reaching it. The
diggings there are said to l-c very rjch in
gold.
SERIES;”” VOL. XIV, NO. 24.
Armed White Celocisalien of Florida.
Florida has, according to the last census,
a population of 75,000 whites and 61,000
slaves. The Government owns in the State '
over 20,000,000 acres of land, —an area
nearly as great as Inciana. The white!
population of the Southern half of the State '
—below Marion county —in which the !
greatest quantity of’ public land is found, |
numbers but about 12,000 —this is an area ‘
s- veral times larger than Massachusetts,
and with a soil far more fertile, and a cli
mate the pleasantest and among the most
salubrious in the world.
