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then, the post-office did not seem to claim right to distribute them as now.

 In 1755, the delivery of letters by the pen ny-post was first began. At the same time began the practice of advertising remaining letters in the office. The letters for all tic | neighboring counties went to Philadelphia, and lay there till called for-thus letters fol Ncwtown, Bristol, Chester, New Castle, Sc. are to be called for in Philadelphia. Even at that period the northern mail goes and returns but once week in summer, ard once fortnight in winter, just as it did $ years before.

 But in 1754, month of October, a new im- pulse is given, so as to start for New-Yor thereafter, on Monday, Wednesday, and Fri day; and in the winter, once week. This, therefore, marks the period of new era in the mail establishment of our country. It owed this impulse, extending also to Boston, to the management of our Franklin, who was made postmaster general.

 In 1755, the postmaster general, Benjamin Franklin, publishes, that to aid the trade, Slc. he gives notice that, thereafter, the win ter northern mail from Philadelphia to New England, which used to set out but once a fortnight, shall start once week all the year round, whereby answers may be obtained to letters between Philadelphia and Boston, in three weeks, which used to require six weeks!" Tn 1758, newspapers which aforetime were carried post free per mail, will, by reason of their great increase, be charged thereafter to the small price of 9d. year for fifty miles, Is. Cd. for 100 miles. This was, most proba7 ply, the private emolument of the rider; the papers themselves not having been mailed at all, it is probable.

 Finally, in l774, which brings colonial things nearly to its final close, by the war of independence, soon after, we read that John Perkins engages to ride post to carry tie mail once week to Baltimore, and will take along or bring back led horses or any par cells"