curap POSTAGE BILL.
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while the merchants are looking win anxltly
ohanee 80 important 10 their interests, and the
people at large, including those few who wrlie no
Ist,ers are demanding i, as a matter oi justice, we
look on II with interest in literary regard VIII
twice as many, or ten times as many letters be
.yr,t,eo. when correspondence Is less expensive
Measure than at present? Here then Is another tax
IN the intelIec;s OF our devoted people; already
tfey almost all, write for the press; now, beside,
t,ey are 10 carry on this immense correspondence
The empire which our people seem determined to
orasn from sea 10 sra is TO be pierced with canals
and railroads, till there IS scarcely green nook OF
shady lane left for the retirement OF lovers and
noe,s: newspapers are 10 fu,ter into the lowliesi
hats with every breeze lectures on all the arts and
sciences are to be given hourly for penny an
entrance; Inc Infinite divisbty OF sects is TO be
proved by the infinitely active acuteness oil dispu-
tauts; the Magnetic Telegraph is TO bind pole win
pole in lively intercourse Of gossip and repar'ee !;
the collision OF character from every region VII!
demand mercurial temperature to melt the varI-
ous elements into one mass; 10 short, lie as IN
tense a communication more rapid, than peTvaded
the little State Of Atca in lis day OF glory, IS 10 be
established throughout this vast country. How all
that is necessary is TO be learned and DONE even IN
the most superficial way, we do not yet see. Not
only there is m, set to human strength and acil-
yity. but from the pressure of care and excitement
which has already began to de'erorate the race
from generation to generation here, II arrives un-
usually quick with us.


And now, in addition 10 all the other demands
upon our energies, comes this inducement 10 write
many and long letters. Yet there is one good


thing about it this private literature Is likely to be
more sincere, more characteristic, than that which
| is designed for the public. When books are to be
placarded in letters TWO inches long, so that TIE
most ardent runner cannot help reading their titles
| if no more, letters where there Is more OF family
sacredness, genuine affinity and untarnlshed senil-
ment may be useful countercheck. And yet we
fear that these, TOO, will become mere gaze'tes
and circuars. We know distinguished person,
all whose letters have tina, air. If at any crsis a
particularly pointed expression occur TO hm all
his friends may be sure TO find in the letters adj
dresseI ! to each That is like the gentleman who
sen, three similar Valentines TO three ladies' on the
same day. GLOW happy woud be with either?


All grant, bright genius Of America, that, IN be-
coming universal we lose cot the fine favor OF III
diyiduaGy that, in our rapid passage over the


outlines OF so many objects, we be not quite
eg,ranged from their secret soul, quite unlniormed
Inv their vital energy, *