Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1855 — The New Postage Law. [ARTICLE]

The New Postage Law.

This law requires all letters to be prepaid after the first of April next. that after the firstof January 1B>&, •uchpaymeiitmustbe menv waH te relieved from much of j Under 3000 miles, the rate of. post age will be, as heretofore, Mree cents. Letter* conveyed over that distance wiU.be taxed ten cents. X7*Tho#e persons • who were delighted With Dr. Dodge, and were in time to hear the preliminary, remarks to his opening lecture, will have their metoories refreshed by the following extract which we copy from a work "Fitch's Six Ijecturcs on the How long will onrcitizens suffer themselves to be humbuged with these traveling Lecturers? Ladies ano Gentlemen: We live in an ftgeremarkable for its vast discoverifes for its most wQpderful developments in knowledge: developments which are giving us great control oVer the material world, annihilating time and space, At one moment, discoveries obtrude upon our notice in a gentle light; at another, they buret forth with the most brilliant metebric glare, dazzling us with their splendor and awakening the most profound and awe-struck anticipations df the future. Even now, so much more can we achieve than we could have done fifty years ago that life seems almost to have doubled its value in that period. Three hundred years ago, could a person have been thrown to sleep, nnd have continued in that state fifty years, on awakening and returnTpg so the schools, he-wouM -have found the same books, the same modes ofteaching, the same elements of thought, perhaps without a single change. Now, let a person remain in seclusion for no more than five years: on returning he would notice many changes in the arts, and in all the active developments of human knowledge. - y ffjf’Next Monday is the day for electing Township officers. Every man entitled to a vote should be ati the polls. It is important that good men—men who will faithfully discharge the duties with which they are entrusted should be chosen. Agricultural Meeting.—-There will he, on the third Saturday in April, a meeting of the Jasper County Agricultural Society’, at the Court House, in Rensselaer, for tho purpose of electing officers.

JOHN CASAD.

Rensselaer, March 29th, 1855. ■ _ i— t nZPFort Wayne, we learn from the Sentinel, is soon to be made yisi-bfe-by gas-light. ' Steamboat vs, Railroad.—Quite an unfortunate accident occured at Uns (the Terre Haute 4c Alton R. R.) bridge on Tuesday morning last.— The splendid steamer Tec/mmscA, coming down and attempting to run through the d&w, was blown against it, knocking it conconsiderably out of place, and do2 it such an injury as to prevent train from running over it fora ?. The boat itself, one of the finest that has visited the wharf for some time .past, came near sinking at the time. The delay caused by the accident, to the regular running of the cart, wtH fall heavily Upon the Albany and Safotn Railroad Company are no w receiving the thirty-three associated “specie ~ frmjgpt par, and also the notesof “IffiHfifrwk Road Company,” Michigan City. The other free banks mihe State are received at W<< cmrontdfreount«-10, 15, «o and 25 per cent. All Illinois, Wiscon-* «in. Mad Distrivf of Columbia bank*