Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-08-22
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Cheap PoStage.-More than three times The usual
number of letters passed through The Albany Pos, OF.
lice on the first Two days of the operation Of The new
postage law, and more than FIVE times through those
of Boston ard New York. The N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser says of the New York ofice-'The mo.
ney receipts we're probably as great as before, if not
greater. One gentleman is said 10 have mailed one
hundred letters, and another sixty eight-just for the
fun OF the thing, and to give the new system a fair
start. The postage on letters received at one of the
Banks this morning, was Dinety.fve cents; the same
letters, at the Old rates, would have called Tor five dol.
lars and a half.
The Tribune gives The result Of the first three days
IN the Nav York Post Office as follows mail.
ed for Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans
aod ALBANY, on LIST inst. 249S; on the q. 26l7; on
on the 30, 2452; total, 1857. The amount of letters
received by mail was four times the number bringing
about half the receipts usual under the old law. The
operation, so far, is sta ted 10 be favorable.
The Washington Union says-"We understand
mat many country Post Masters are resigning their
Offices, IN consequence OF The operation of the Post
Oifice law. We learn that nearly one hundred resis.
nations were receive ed in the course Of one day.
All lands in Illinois forfeited 10 the State for taxes
are TO be sold in September next, without reservation,
and patents for them Immediately issued. The op.
pressed condition Of the farming population will be
the cause oil a great sacrifice in these sales. But
from what we learn much of the burden will fall up.
on large landed proprietors and non residents.
CoNTEMprIBLE.-By The instructions of the Post.
mustcr General, Postmasiers are ESPECIALLY eniolnedn
to promptly report TO The D apartment, all persons who
put letters into express offices, or who send or carry
packages. &c, in order that they may be prosecuted
and fined. Thus our 1000 postmasters are required
to be in reality $4,000 spies on their fellow citizens,
Newspapers in America There are said to be
400 Newspapers published in this countrv, of which
2i4 are IN Nav York, ls7 IN Pennsylvania, and ZIG
in Ohio.
EMIGRANTs TO the lst Of June 1000 emigran,s
had arrived al Quebec, and it had been announced 10
the agent there that nearly $1,000 more had taken
passage. Most Of these are from Ireland, and the
number expected to arrive in The course of the wear
from the limited Kingdom" is estimated at $50, 600.
The rest of Europe will in ell probability send to The
States and Canada from ID to so, 900 more. MANY
of these emigrants are people Of wealth and character.
Those from Germany and Switzerland especially
and many of those from France and England, are
Agriculturalis,s, and bring with them the accumulai-
ed experience, as well as no small share OF the wealth
of the old countries.
DISMAL S~wAMp.-The Dismal Swamp is again on
fire, and the smoke from it during the nign, raises a
cloud over the S,urhcrn horizon, which looks like Il
promise of rain-butlh The rising sun soon d~issipa,es it,
and pours down its beams hotter than ever.
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL friend Of ours, who has
just returned from a tour to prairie land, advises us of
a fact which We think will give pretty striking idea
Of The great agricultural resources of the State ef H.
linois. and the important bearing which they are like
to have upon the farming interests Of other sections of
! the Union, when the rich prairies Of this largo State
| shall generally be brought under cultivation. Ia
speaking with a gentleman from Mississippi. whom he
met al Chicago, and who had traversed a large portion
Of Illinois in his journey, in reference TO the condition
of the crops he was told bv him that in particular sec.
lions he was surprised AT the immense fields OF wheat
which were spread out before him, apparently without
dissemination, other than by cross roads. and on inqui.
ring Of a farmer, who occupied a part of lhe land, as
TO the number of acres thus under cultivation in lux.
taposition, in that vicinity, he was informed that by
the carefullest computation that could be made, there
was at least forty thousand acres, and his INN ense
field gave promise of a yield per acre far exceeding
,ha, of any previous year--BuDalo Commercial
BEwARE'oF CrprER KETTLES considerable alarm
prevailed at Cape May on Monday, in consequence OF
some sixty or seventy visitors who boarded at a fash,
ionable hotel al that place, being taken suddenly i'll
The cause was the use Of food prepared in a copper
vessel.
CLERICAL LIcENTIoUsNEss Rev. Daniel Newell
forcerly editor of the Christian Family Magazine
has been deposed by the Presbytery of New York
(Old SCHOOL, for RIGHTEOUSNESS.