kept up since the 1st of July.
He replied '_no_,' but added, 'the increase of numbers is somewhat
encouraging, but not sufficiently so to justify the belief that
the new law will realize the hopes of its advocates.' "--_N. Y.
Correspondent of Boston Post._

"From the city post-office we learn that the number of letters,
papers, and packages, passing through their hands, unconnected
with the business of the government, has increased about 33 per
cent., when compared with the business of the month of June. The
gross amount of proceeds from postage on these has fallen off
nearly 66 per cent., while the postage charged to the government
for its letters, &c., received and sent, is enormous. For the
post-office department alone, it is said to reach near $40,000 for
the month just past."--_Washington Union, Aug. 2._

"We observe in the Eastern papers some paragraphs about the
working of the new law, in which they suppose it will work well.
Unquestionably it will work well for those who have to pay the
postage; but as to the _revenue_, it will not yield even as much
as the opponents of the system supposed. We do not believe the
receipts will equal one half received under the old system. We are
told that the experience of the first week in Cincinnati does not
show more than _one quarter_ the receipts.

"Private correspondence is increased a little; but the falling off
in the mercantile increase is immense. It cannot be otherwise; for
many letters now pay 10 cents which formerly paid a dollar. Double
and treble letters pay no more than single letters. In large
cities three-fourths of the postage is paid by _business letters_.
These letters are nearly all double and treble. A double letter
from Cincinnati to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, or
New Orleans, before, paid 50 cents; now it pays 10 cents. The
largest portion of postage is reduced to _one-fifth_ part of the
former postage.

"We are well pleased, however, that it will turn out as it will.
The law will be too popular with the people to be repealed; and it
will oblige Mr. James K. Polk's administration to provide ways and
means out of the tariff to meet a deficiency of two millions in
the postage. This will work favorably to the tariff.

"All things will come right in the end. The lower the postage the