The proposed law provides that senders or owners of registered matter lost in the mails may be indemnified to an extent not exceeding $10 for any one letter or package. This will do as a beginning, but the American public is entitled to at least as much as is given to the citizens of European nations by their respective post-office departments. For instance, we pay 10c. for a registered letter, and by the proposed law may collect up to $10 if the letter or parcel is lost. In England a registered letter costs 6c., and if lost the owner can collect up to $25; if 10c. is paid, the indemnity is raised to $75. The second measure is one permitting the use of private postal cards to which a 1c. stamp is affixed, provided the same be approximately of the same size and weight as the officially made card. If passed, there will be some very handsome and many very humorous cards sent through the mail, and interesting collections could be made at a very little cost. The third measure is one providing for the appointment of letter-carriers in small places, who shall collect 1c. for each letter or parcel delivered. This is practically applying to small villages the system which fifty years ago was common in New York, Philadelphia, and other large cities. If the charges are collected by stamps, it will revive the collecting of U. S. Locals. B. J. JONES.--The old Anti-Surcharge Society was organized about six years ago through the efforts of Mr. C. B. Corwin, but it soon went to pieces, as the great body of collectors refused to discontinue the collection of the innumerable and uncalled-for varieties. The evil has abated of late years, from the fact that the burden grew too heavy for all philatelists excepting a small body of very rich men. The "Seebecks" are declining in price rapidly. J. LEARNED.--The collecting of entire U. S. envelopes should be followed where possible. Discard all varieties of water-mark paper, shapes, sizes, gums, etc., collecting simply by dies and papers. A. A. WEILMAN.--It is claimed that the first envelope in modern times used for prepayment of postage was the New South Wales for 1838. A genuine copy would probably bring $250. W. H. CARR, JUN.--You can buy the Philatelic button of C. W. Kissinger, Reading, Pa. H. F. KING.--The Japanese wedding stamps were issued in 1894. The red is sold at 4c., the blue at 5c. O. LEWIS.--You do not state the paper, or whether used or unused. On white paper it is worth 20c.; on amber paper, 25c.; on blue paper, $5; on fawn paper, $15. % %.--The half-dime, 1856, can be bought for 15c. J. P. WILTON.--The stamp-dealers are offering $2 Columbian stamps at $1.75. They are used for postage by the large banking houses, chiefly for prepayment of postage on packages of bonds, stocks, etc., sent to Europe.