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The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
eputy postmasters, who are allowed to frank on official business. The increase in the rates of postage has been adopted in order to make the department self-sustain, instead of a tax of millions upon the country, like its predecessor at Washington. A design for postage stamps, about which there has been some anxiety, has been selected, and a contract partially made for a supply. The new stamp will be quite pretty — a tittle larger than the old, with an elegant steel engraving of Washington in the centre, and will be furnished the country early in June. The self-sacrificing Secretary of the Treasury, like another Cerberus, is guarding the money bags, which, to save from still less depiction, he has determined to prohibit the creation of assistant offices to those of First Auditor and Comptroller. In the United States Government there are six Auditors and two Comptrollers, 1st and 2d. Here there will be but one of each, and only one set of books to be kept by the Re