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The odious Post Office Bill of which l wrote you yesterday, passed the Senate last night with the House amendments. The rates of postage are now and 10 eents.- At first view this may please few who write good many letters, and pay but small amount of taxes. But when it is considered in it's true light, as a scheme of the merchants and manufacturers to keep up, and proba

 bly increase the Tariff, at the expense of the taX-payng agrculturist, who will, perhaps. save fifty cents in postage, and lose ten dol lars in taxes, 1t will justly incur the indig- nant condemnation of our people. See how 1t works The wealthy city merchant or manufacturer who at present pays, perhaps. t1cemy dollars tax, and fre Hundred dol lars postage, will, under the operation of this bill, pay thirty dollars tax, and tsco Hundred dollars postage; thus making nett gain of near hrce Hundred doilarS year; where as the farmer who now pays one Hundred dol lars tax, and three dollars postage. will have to pay one Hundred and .ftiy dollars tax and about one dollar postage; thus sustaining a loss of near ffy dollars a year, These may not be the precise sums made or lost. nor the precise rates and proportions of tax es and PostageS paid yet they are subsan- tally correct; and near enough true to illus traie the operation of the Bill, and its per nicious effects R