The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-11-24

Tm CESAR PosrAoE sTsfm-The Wash
ing on letter wrifers~-who llre In q suFt OF
mirage which lifts up aud makes plain %
them objeets lying below the horizon which
bounds common yision-predict that the
documents which will issue from the Post
master Generals bureau Al The opening OF
Congress. will show that the cheap postage
system has not produced the financial re-
cults lie advocates predicted. In spite OF
the economical aFfaDgemegts Of the De-
partment, IL has become a charge on the
Treasury, and II the Post OSice system is
to support itself, the present law must be
amended by the coming Congress.
There are many reasons which incline us
20 believe the truth Of the statement that
the present Post Office system does not pay
Its way Because cheap postage had sue.
eeeded in Great Britain, il isno reason why
II should here. The conditions OF the two
countries are vastly different; our p~opula-
iion is not so dense as that Of England, our
roads are longer and poorer the mail service
between the Atlantic and Pacific is very
expensive, our people care so little about
the difference between three and five cents,
that but few more letters are written in con-
sequence of a reduction to the amount Of
that difference, and our Government has not
the sams contiol over railroad and steam
boat companies that the English govern
ment has, and they can be extortionste If
they please. All these reasons work a.
gainst the success Of the cheap postage sys-
TEN.
The newspaper postage, especially, is
said to yield no revenue at all. The post.
age on all printed matter does not average
ten cents a pound, yet the Department pays
twenty-five cents per pound for its transport
%tation to California. Still, we fear no re-
turn to the FIVE cent system. II would be
SO unpopular that but few members would
vote for it; and very probably the Postmas.
ter General will not recommend It. So the
Post Office Department will probably re-
main for some years a charge on the Treas
nry: aud we cannot see why the money OF
the Government will not be as well employ
ed in supporting.a cheap system of postage,
as IL kept locked up in Subtreasuries or
squandered on favorites.-Ch. Gag.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE DssrAtc-
TIVE FIRES IN New YoRK.-The FIRE on the
oath and 25th SITS, in New York, on Thurs
day morning, consumed about 100000
worth of property, including six buildings
two of them Eve stories high, owned by
Messrs. Sloan & Leggett, who also lost
1925 900 worth of valuable patterns and
tools. They were insured for S253 900, bui
their loss exceeds this sum by SI00,o 00.-
A. E. Brooks, piano maker, was insured
for So, 800; G. Schwartz, m%achanist, sus'
tanned a loss Of $4,000; the Empire 1ror
Works were insured for S29 500; A. Long
gett & Co., agricultural mechanists, los
81, 000-insurance $3.50, and various 9th
ers ustained losses of smaller amounts;
AT the fire corner ofJano and Washing
ton sts., on the same morning, eight tbuild
ings were consumed, including Knox's fac
tory, owned by ]. B. Warn um, and insure'
for S40, 800, and two buildings owned b.
John Morgan who was insured for 1000
Mr.. Marston, fire arms manufacturer, sus
tanned a lose OF SIS, 900; insured for Si6,
$50. There were a number of other snf
ferers, and the total loss is estimated a
, $3.50. GOO.
!, In the House Of Refuge, which is With
/, fifty or sixty feet of the buildings destroye
in Twenty-ffth street, there was great con
: fusion and excitement. This house is fuI
Of glrls-ahd the scene Of alarm was indies
cribable. They were all locked up in thei
cells, by order of the SUPERINTENDENT
the roof Of the house being shingled, tn,
t chief Of police and aids, were compelled I
s keep it wet by Carrying up water with buck
cts. Some of the glrls, it is stnted, wer
: crying, and screaming, and praying, an
some were in Mysteries, and SOM maxim
fun of the policemen, This building wa
. saved only by the extraordinary effoEts o
: the fire department. Two or three 6remel
! were injured during the fires.
PROGRESS OF rHs CHINESE RESURRECTION