DOMESTIC POSTAGE. FIRST CLASS.Letters and all written matter, whether sealed or unsealed, and all other matter sealed, nailed, sewed, tied, or fastened in any manner, so that it cannot be easily examined, two cents per ounce or fraction thereof. A "Special Delivery" ten-cent stamp, when attached to a letter in addition to the lawful postage, shall entitle the letter to immediate delivery at, or within one mile of, any post-office. Postal cards, one cent each; with paid reply, two cents each. SECOND CLASS.All regular newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals issued at intervals not exceeding three months; the postage is one cent for each, four ounces, payable by postage stamps. THIRD CLASS. Embraces printed books, pamphlets, circulars, engravings, lithographs, proof-sheets and manuscript accompanying the same, and all matter of the same general character, and not having the character of personal correspondence. Circulars produced by hektograph or similar process, or by electric pen, are rated as third class. The limit of weight for mail matter of the third class is four pounds, except in the case of single books exceeding that weight. The rate of postage on mail matter of the third class is one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof. FOURTH CLASS.All mailable matter not included in the three preceding classes, which is so prepared for mailing as to be easily taken from the wrapper and examined. Rate, one cent per ounce or fraction thereof, except seeds, roots, cuttings, bulbs, plants and scions,which are 1c. per two ounces. Limit of weight, 4lbs. Full prepayment compulsory. Liquids, and other like injurious matter, not admitted, except under conditions which may be learned at any post-office. Direct your mail matter to a post-office, writing the name of the State plainly; and if to a city, add the street and number or post-office box of the person addressed. Matter not addressed to a post-office cannot be forwarded. Write or print your name and address, and the contents, if a package, upon the upper left-hand corner of all mail matter. This will insure its immediate return to you for correction, if improperly addressed or insufficiently paid; and if it is not called for at destination it can be returned to you without going to the Dead-Letter office. If a letter, it will be returned free. Register all valuable letters and packages. Registry fee, eight cts., which, with the postage, must be fully prepaid. POSTAL NOTE AND MONEY ORDER FEES.Postal notes, 3 c. each, in denominations of $4.99 and less, payable to bearer. Such notes are invalid upon the expiration of three months from the last day of the month of issue, but the holder can after that time get it renewed at the Department at Washington upon payment of a fee of 3 cents. For Money Orders in denominations of $100 or less the following fees are charged: Orders not exceeding $5, 5 c.; over $5 to $10.8 c.; $10 to $15, 10c.; $15 to $30,15 c.; $30 to $40, 20 c.; $40 to $50,25 c.; $50 to $60, 30 c.; $60 to $70, 35 c.; $70 to $80, 40 c.; $80 to $100, 45 c. FOREIGN POSTAGE. To all parts of the Universal Postal Union (embracing nearly every civilized country): ON LETTERS, five cents for each half ounce or fraction thereof prepayment optional. Double rates are collected on delivery of unpaid or short-paid letters. On newspapers, books, pamphlets, photographs, sheet music, maps, engravings, and similar printed matter, one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof. To CANADA (including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, and Prince Edward Island): LETTERS, two cents for each ounce or fraction thereof; Books, Circulars, and similar printed matter, one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof; SECOND CLASS MATTER, same as in the United States; SAMPLES AND MERCHANDISE, one cent per ounce. Packages must not exceed 4 lbs. 6 oz. in weight prepayment compulsory. To MEXICO : Letters, Postal Cards, and printed matter, same rates as in the United States. SAMPLES, one cent per ounce; MERCHANDISE other than Samples can only be sent by Parcel Post. LIMITS OF SIZE AND WEIGHT: Packages of samples of merchandise to the countries named above (except Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Switzerland) must not exceed oz., nor measure more than 12 in. in length, 8 in breadth, and 4 in depth; and packages of printed matter must not exceed 4 lbs. 6oz. Packages of merchandise samples to Great Britain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Hawaii, and Argentine Republic are limited to 12 oz. in weight, 12 in. in length, 8 in width, and 4 in depth. Packages of printed matter to Germany and Great Britain are limited to 2 ft. in length and 1 ft. in each other dimension. INTERNATIONAL OR FOREIGN MONEY-ORDER FEES. On Algeria, Belgium, British India, Cape Colony, Constantinople, Denmark, Dominion of Canada, Egypt, England, France, German Empire, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Newfoundland, New South Wales, New Zealand, Portugal, Sandwich Islands, Scotland, Shanghai, Sweden, Switzerland, Tasmania, Victoria. For Orders of $10 or less. 10c. Over $50, not exceed. $60, 60c. Over $10, not exceed. $20, 20c. Over $60, not exceed. $70, 70c. Over $20, not exceed. $30, 30c. Over $70, not exceed. $80, 80c. Over $30, not exceed. $40, 40c. Over $80, not exceed. $90, 90c. Over $40, not exceed. $50, 50c. Over $90, not exceed. $100, $1 Orders can also be obtained on Austria and East Indies by remittance through the Postal Department of Switzerland, subject to the rates of the Swiss Department to those countries. Also on Norway and the Netherlands, through the Postal Department of the German Empire, subject to the rates of the German Department to those countries.