New-York daily tribune., 1843-01-28
The new Postuse RiIl.

| The National Intelligencer states the substance
of Mr.. Merrick's bill as follows:
The bill provides the following scale: For any letter
exceeding thirty miles five cents and for all distances
three times that rate all packages Of qua
drupe; and in that proportion tor all greater weighA
town or city or delivery within the same city,
shall be charged with five cents postage whenever the same
is paid; and in OF prepayment the charge
| shall be three cents only.
From and after the first of April next, all periodicals
and papers of $50 quae inches, the rate fixed by
the of Sd March, 1925; all above $50 square inches
advance cent for every 1--WE square inches over and
\ above the said number"
A great deal of this is absurd. The exorbitant
charge on drop letters will only annhiate all
revenue therefrom by inviting competition. If the
FIVE cent limit were extended from 30 to 300
miles, we do not doubt that the Revenue would be
essentially increased. Very many of the letters
between Boston and Newly ork, Albany and New
| York. New-YoIl and Philadelphia, Philadelphia
| and Baltimore, &c, &C., now transmitted
otherwise than by Mail, and would be under ten
but not usder FIVE cent Postage. Three cents
under 80 miles AID 6ge under 300 would be far
better, and in the long more profitable than
the rates proposed. Then the mammoth news
sheets should be smartly taSea, not prohibited
|
not set dog on its customers. Why this eternal
effort to drive things into the Mails and others
QUIT Better invite all communications, by car
rying them lower than they can be sent otherwise,
and then let people consult their own convenience
Yet this bill. just it Is is great deal better
than nothing. Friends Of the People in Congress .
we entreat you TO give lis Pcst-Ofice Reform be-
fore your adjournment!
| 70 THE DsBArE on CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
was opened at the Tabernacle last evening in
able extemporaneous argument in review OF the
| Theological argument for such Punishment and
brief presen,ment of the facts and considerations
| which call for its Abolition by Mr.. O'SULLlvAH,
and continued in carefully prepared and most
eloquently effective oration in defence and advo-
cacy Of such Punishment by Rev. GEO. B. CHEZ
YER Probably the Theological argument for
Death was never more forcibly set forth. On &C
count Of Mr.. CHEEvER's pressing engagements
Monday has been assigned to Rev. DR.. Cox and
| H. GREELEY for conclusion of their discussion
on this subject and Messrs. OSuLLlvAN and
| CHEEvER will resume and conclude their debate on
Friday evening.
| very large audience gave earnest and grati-
| fed attention to the discussion through the even
| ing and we are confident that much light was dl.
| fused TO many minds on subject of deep impor-
| tance to the well-being of the Human Race. We
trust this Course of Debates will be so approved
and sustained as to lead to public, able and even.
tuav free discussions of all topics OF vital interest
| on which the community is divided. So shall
| truth be vindica,ed and knowledge ditfused.
| CoRREcrIoN.-In account yesterday at the
less of the sloop General Lewis, of North Fort,
| we stated that there was reason to believe that
the passenger who was lost, and who gave his
name to the Captain as Onderdonk, was son OF
Bishop Onderdonk of this city. This we are in
formed is not the case he being nephew and not
son of that gentleman. His name was Andrew
Onderdonk and he was his way to this city
We hope that any paper which may have copied
our account will also give publicity to this correc-
| ton.
The RlvER.-The boat which came down the
river on Thursday night cut through ice three In.
ches thick all the way from Albany to PoughkeeP-
sic. The Advertiser says that the weather on
Wednesday night was intensely cold--the coldest
of the season, and that the river full of ice.
The bridges and mil-dams on Lime Stone
Creek in Manlius, Onondaga county, suffered
great damage from the recent feshet.
MASSACHUSETTS new Governor and
Council OF Massachusetts have appointed Monday,
the 18th of February as the day Of second trial TO
elect Members OF Congress from tine six Districts
wherein no choice was made at the regular State
election. Gov. Davis and the Whig Council had
concluded not to hold any Election, but kave
| the choice made at the time of choosing Town
Officers in March, but the new Loco-Foco authori-
ties understand very we'll tina, their chance is bet
ter on ligh, vote than heavy one.
| p The Editer of tie Detroit Daily Advertiser
was obliged TO report, and so TO hear, the debate
of the Loco-F Legislature Of tha, State their
new Exemption Law. In the evening he dropped
in at the African Debating Club, and heard the
same question discussed there and remarks on the
two discussions:
people, ha Members OF the Legislature, but would
the latter attend The debates oil the to.ner during
the Sessoa Their logic and eiocuuon would ooil be ni-
| proved
1t is we'll for this critic that friend Fenimore
Cooper did not happen TO be a member of either of
these deliberative bodies. He would have had a
deputy On his track in short order.
10 MIR. AUDUBON, the celebrated Ornitholo-
giss, intends in few weeks, starting on an expe-
di,ieu to the Rocky Mountains for the purpose of
| collecting specimens.