Postage Reform.
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werejoce to learn that the light SO long shining
freely into the minds of the whole People with
regard 10 this great Reform has at length pene-
trated the darkest inner reccsses of the Post
Office Department. We have authority in which
We confde for stating that Postmaster General
Wicklife will next week recommend to Congress
reduction of the Rates of Postage to Jfoe cents
for all distances $fnder FIVE hundred miles and ten
cents for all greater distances. There can be no
doubt that Congress will readily concur, though
the 2ost.Offce Committee of the House will
interposo every obstacle in its power.


This ia c great step toward the right. There
ought TO be still lower rate for short distances,
but let Us take tais and then ask for more. OF
course the Frank;ng Privilege goes overheard, if
there is any idea of making the Department sus-
tain itself