Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-03-24


dollars year for three additional teams said
to be required In thus exped ting the mail md
deman ded that sun. MIR. Mclean refused to
make the allowance. HaTrli procured art
! prefenial'on from several gentlemen to the ell
feet that he had put on three additional teams
10 consequence OF the increased expedition,
and that the amount charged was not 100 high.
and a certificate from Mr.. Dufhe, TINT al.
though he was not acquainted with the facts,
| he knew those gentlemen were respectable and
enlitled 10 iul credit All. Mclean directed
me TO return for answer, that Ms The cOnlrnc tor
had the same longth of time TO perform his
route IN, the law did not authorize him 10 make
any allowance. Afterwards Mi HarTIli cane
10 The Office, applied to Mr.. Barry. who directed
! Doctor h. 10 wrne TO llarrill that he should be
allowed nearly 300 dollars Tor that increase
expedition, from April LIST, 1893, until the cod
at his contract, and ordered Tho pay 10 be
made FOR the pas; year. Thus moro than i've
thousand dollars has been paid OF engaged 10
be paid, without suiiieiunl reason, aud contrary
| To law.
I'd Messrs Mallets carry the mail from
| Fayetteville. North Caolino, to CANDIDA, South
carolina. They applied 90 MIR. Barry Tor an
| increased allowance of 800 dollars year.
which he ordered to be made without asbig0-
| ing any reason, which is required by law IN
Cases OF Increased allowances Application
had been made To the late Postmaster General,
but he had declined making any. not seeing
any grounds or cause Tor such allowance.
| AN also I'M Ormed by my bro her Doctor Brad
| ley, that other increased allowances were made
| by him To these gentlemen, amounting with the
| above 10 three thousand dollars II yoAr, no ad-
eqnhe grounds cxisling Tor susI allowance.
bot as I have no access To the books OF tue
Dopdttmcu. Will not make II spoe,iic oh nrgs
OF thai fact. but merely state II asa suhjea
worthy oil Iaqnity.
81. The mai ~ carried between Mobile and
n. Ofleans pnIlly IN stages aud partly IN boais
three timts week aud costs sIx thousand dol
lars yeat
Applications were made TO have this mail
carried IN STEAMBOATS,, thr distancoi - 1870 miles.
tie bad II advertised with III II view. Between
New York ani Albany. 100 mil ;, thu mail Is
carried sII tune wesA during The season Ia
steamboats, Ion 1000 dollar. yeai. Between
Baltimore aud Phadelpha neatly 100 mos,
steamboats, and stages daily at 60UU dollars.
during h. year
| Mi Barry has made new contract for this
route al l35 miles only three Times a week,
| 'up"laiing top,y twenty five thousand dollaIs
| year. by lhls con Iact the mad will anve
| at New Oilrnns one day eafler lhdu II did be
| ore But there AFRO three other expensive
| routes loading TO New Orleans these
| altendy more Than absorb the proceeds of the
thousand dollais year. In the four years Tor
hlch the ooairac, Ii made, !, Vi III cost the pub
| lic seventy -nx tao isand dollars more than II
would 10 carry 1t as isnpw car xd, and no
nhterlal advantage IL 10 be gained.
Specification 1h. The law requires the ad-
veftIselneuls invitng proposals Tor carrying
the mail to be pullished Tor twelve weeks, at
the seat Of GoYsrnmeni, and tho usage bas
| been topUbllsh tiyn once "a week IN two pa
| per-. The advertisement OF ihis year, ~ u
shor, one, aud would have cost Tor one paper
once week from go TO 800 dollars. lbe
pfopr,etors Of the National lntclligencar pub
lish daily aud tri-seekiy paper, and publish
| The advertisement IN thc latter several nmes
| without any additional charge. Boil ia order to
swell the amount, MIR. Barry employed the
| Telegraph 10 publish II every tmo IN the daily
paper, every time Ia tho irweekly paper and
evnry time ~ the weekly paper. thus tho
public pays for publishing it ion times week
IN what IL in fact the same phpfr, something
| modified, useless to the public aud "a nui,anc.
TO the subscribers Shame seemed TO resirnin
toe proprIe or rom making the full price, and
/ hc reduced the continuance, niter The frs,
three IN each paper from 50 cents to % cents
each square. still making tho whole cost over
! :, 900 dollars
! 9th lie has employ ed extra clerks and q.
| genis when the businesses OF the Office was as
! well aud promptly done before, and when IT
| did not ieqnire Others. sand has expended mo
| ney IN alterations. ornaments aud what he
considers Improvement IN the bullIing for The
| General Posi- Office, sithout any npproprln-
! iton or warrant OF law. I cannot sprcify The
! exient oi The cost tue books OF the Office will
SHOW
! kemark BY these means, through his own
| Indebtedness and by payments aud engage
IN nts made without reaeoo, the Department Is
involved in loss Of nearly 100000 dollars,
and h" has been IA ONCE but cir months.
thuge 4th. His ignorance Of, and inaltenI
| ton To, the d4lles OF his Office.
Specification LIST. The power of removing
and appointing PoTmssteH IS one OF greaI
Tus bnd importance, aud requires vigilance,
care aud judgment
This he h I'd virtually yielded to c, K Gard.
neT before my reno val BON The office He
is my successor, and know not how IL is now
arranged. Wine ia that business the papers
relaung 10 one Cili &C were ranged in one
bundle, and instead Of giving brief oftbe
ca ,rgcs against the individual, and the ans
wcr. of the applicants aud their supporters, he
merely endotsed suggestion GU the papers
thai such an one should be removed end such
an one be appointed, aud tue Postmaster Gen
cral endorsed approves" or d" let it be dome
or words TO that effect. And c. X. Gardner
thus made The removals and appointment
would not he understood 10 STATE ia II Mr.
Barry never examined h papers. lie doubtless
did in some instances read them, or pafi of
them, aud the more important appointments
we're made upon advisemen'.
2. will illustrate Tie effect of lhis-The
Postmaster at Poughkeepsis, New York an Of
fc. oil some importance, rendered more so by
the interest made Tor bis removal and r.ten-
ton IN office, who had opposed the late adj
miris,ration strenuousiy, and advocated the
present, had it seems, voted for his friend
Judge Thompson as governor he wrote to me
repeatedly about the Efforts made to remove
hlm. lie aIso wrote TO Mr. Barry. took II
letter to me into Mr.. BarIy's rom and told
him its contents. 81 Sir" SAYS he, we have
fully consider d that case; he will not be re-
moved-you may write hun So" thought i,