The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-02-03

There IL Ra almost universal expression OF dis
approval throughout the country of the proper
ton 30 increase the rates Of postage. IL !s looked
npon as g step back ward, and altogether unsnitad
TO q land like onrs, with such in.ne: 'i,nis
and with . population scattered from she Atlantic
to the Pacific. Instead OF increasing the letter.
postas from thrse to dive cent?, rs proposed by
.Ee F0st aster General, the Joera0i 81 C1msaercs
desires 20 see the rates reduced 10 two cents at
experiment.: and with the British example IN
view. it believes that the amount received from
letter postage would be equally increased. The
Britt government tried four penny uniform
rate at Il rst aud i. failed We quite -
With an Estimated excess Of expenditures over
receipts Of So o 440 for postage in the year 1859,
the Postmaster General fsvors return To the i've
cents Matchmaking that uniform for all d.ssaEc
and aboiishiug the 5000 Liila limit CIDER the
present systoIi, it'll population nearly equal To
that Of Great Britain tae total number OF letters
passir through the port Office per annuTn IL only
little one hundred million, tlO2, log l]s
while in Great Britain, With the uniform penny
postage. il j. upwards Of four hundred million,
4lu,SlT.4S9 J II is just nineteen years since the
penny postage was established theIe-tbe I"th oi
January, 1870, being the day on which it was com
menCed Its .hsct in increasing letter writing
was az once appsreut-the humber Of letters des-
patched 90 that day from Loudop being ll2,Mo;
While the average for January Of the preceding
year was only $4,000.
Iag~ We received yesterday 81, to all the blind
man, NORRIS aud bis family. We should be
pleased 10 add more to it, The kud,besrted can
make no mistake in assisting this very dependent,
snd, We are sure, deserving family.
RnsIsTivo THE OFficERs.--Wben the officers Of
the law from S.auuton, reached Harrisonhurg.
Va. to arrest George Z. Deueale & second time.
The having been acquitted on previous charge OF
obtaining money on false pIeteDses,l his friends
resisted them, apd several had to be taken In cus-
toby. The community was greatly excited. The
papers 10 not state the exact nature o! the charge
upon which this new arrest is made.
Cg.RaE q MUnrEP.-Mr. ami Ms pugh were
arrested il Suffolk Va, 0n Saturday, suspicion
If being accessory to the murder Of VIM. ?ugh
lsst Christmas. and couhncd in Nansemond COUNTY
,xiI Sn.pieion vas aroused, it is said, hy sori,
thing said by little child.
RETCRYFD 70 TIE STACr,-Cbares !. Weeks, one
Of tho converted actors Of the revival excitement
last year. no became Mnistsr, and preached
with much acceptance, appeared In Troy. New
York, last week, in the play of "EetributioB -
Lack Of peculiarly means, to support dyog mo.
ther and two terra drove him back bis old pro
fession.
NORFOLK CogN M.RxrT.-The receipt. Of corn AT
Norfolk. Va, for Monday and Tuesday, ablou lated
to about 40 G9J bushels bu: owing 80 the scarcity
ct coastiug vessels, she market Il rather dull
sa'es Of mixed and white at '"a'4 yellow =.
RAILROAD IRoN.--The ship Yeuio~, from Bristol,
Wales, with cargo Of iron rails, for tho Lynch.
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