Grant County Herald

Cheap Postage In England.

You may send a letter of no matter how many pieces of paper, or containing no matter what dry substance, if it does not weigh over half an ounce, to any part of the kingdom for a penny, or two cents; if it weighs less than an ounce, four cts.; and so on. This has wonderful consequences. It sets all the people to corresponding, resuscitates all manner of traffic and pays the government a clear profit of three million dollars per annum! It may be called the grand civilizer and universal educator of the people. The poorest girl that can express her ideas by pot hooks, now corresponds with her poor parents while out at service; and if she wishes to remit them a few shillings of her earnings, she has only to pay three pence or six cents, at the post office for a money order and enclose it in her letter, and the government then becomes not only the bearer, but the insurer of the money. It cannot be lost, and the party to whom it is sent is as sure to get it, as if it were handed over in silver. The convenience of this arrangement for making little purchases, collecting little debts, etc., must be felt, to be understood.

In connexion with the great carriers, whose arrangement for the delivery of parcels after the manner of Harnden & Co., ramify all over the kingdom, the cheap postage and money order system, give the country almost all the advantage of the city.—They give a life blood circulation, which makes a people strong, wise and happy, I wish I could blow a trumpet on this subject that would reach every log-house beyond the mountains.

Fellow countrymen, we have a power in the United States to have a system as good and as cheap. For Heaven's sake, do not let us pick our own pockets any longer for the benefit of people who will not even thank us. If our federal government cannot do this for us, it is not worth having. This postage system is the best thing I have seen in England.—[Morning Chronicle.