ockets. Look at this
matter. I am an industrious mechanic, for example, and I have
little time to write letters. My neighbor publishes school-books,
and he wishes to be sending off letters, recommendations, puffs,
&c., by the hundred and by the thousand. This is his way of making
money. Now, he wishes the expenses of the post-office department
to be paid out of the treasury, and then I shall have to help him
pay his postage, while he will only pay his national tax,
according to his means, as I do mine. If he is making his money by
sending letters, he should pay the whole cost of carrying those
letters. I ought not to pay any part of it, in the way of duties
on sugar, &c. Let every man pay his own postage. Is not this fair?
But this will not be the case if the post-office department does
not support itself. The cheap postage system may injure the poor
man, instead of helping him."--_Philad. North American._

"As for the matter of post-office reform, and reduction of the
rates of postage, there are not _one thousand_ considerate and
reflecting people, in the Union, who desire or demand anything of
the kind.

"The commercial and mercantile classes have not desired 'reform;'
and the rural and agricultural classes, the planters of the South,
and the corn and wheat growers of the West, the mechanics and
laboring classes, are not disposed to be _taxed_ enormously to
support a post-office department to gratify the avarice and
cupidity of a body of sharpers and speculators."--_Madisonian._

"THE NEW POSTAGE LAW.--The following statement has been furnished
us of the amount of postage chargeable on letters forwarded by the
New York and Albany steamboats:

The last thirteen days of June, $99.66
First thirteen days of July, (same route,) 53.90
Decrease, $45.76.

_Albany Argus._

"I inquired at the post-office to-day for information. One of the
gentlemanly clerks of that establishment said to me, 'Well, Mr.
Smith, I can't give you all the information you desire, but I can
say thus much. I this morning made up a mail for Hudson; it
amounted to _seventy cents_; the same letters under the old law,
and in the same mail, would have paid _seven dollars_. Now you can
make your own deductions.' I then inquired of the same gentleman,
if the increase of letters had been