Mail communication with the
South.--Arrangements have been made by which letters can be safely forwarded to, and received from, the
Southern States.
The following is the plan:--To get a letter to New Orleans, it must be put in a
United States stamped envelope — a three-cent stamp upon an ordinary envelope will not do, because the law of Congress forbids express companies from carrying letters in any other way than when enclosed in stamped envelopes.
The letter should then be directed in the following manner:
Enclose the letter in another envelope, with twenty cents' worth of United States Government stamps, and direct as follows:
This must be paid with one or two three-cent stamps, according to weight.
The twenty cents' worth of postage stamps pays ten cents to the Express Company for their trouble, and enables them to pay the bogus Confederacy postage, which is ten cents from
Louisville to New Orleans, the distance being over five hundred miles; but if the letter is intended for a point distant from
Louisville less than five hundred miles, then the
Confederacy postage will be but five cents. It is understood that this arrangement has been entered into with the knowledge and consent of
Postmaster-General Blair, and, if properly carried out, as we have no doubt it will be, must
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prove a great benefit to the people of both sections of the
Union.--
Buffalo Express, June 22.
