Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-10-16

General, for the purpose ofraising the teind.
IL was received by a postmaster m this
county. We have the original IN our pos
session, and If the receipt Of IT shall be de
MED, we viii establish the fact, by aflida
Wits of unimpeachable citizens Of this
county.
CIRCULAR:
PORTRAIT Of the POSTMASTER GEN.
Washington City, d. c. March Is, 1884
DEAR SIR:
1.-The undersigned having, at consider
able expense procured correct Copper
plate Portrait Of the Hon. WIN. L Barry,
Postmaster General, drawn from life by
James b. Longacre, Esq of Philadelphia,
respectfully sollcits your subscription TO
the same.
Price one dollar per copy. The size is
intended for frame IL by I6 inches.
You are requested TO procure as many
subscribers as you can, Immediately,
and within one week after the receipt of
this, return the names of subscribers, and
the money, 10 Edmund +. Brown, of the
Post Office Department.
Current money OF your State, will be
taken at par. The copies will be forward
ed TO order, as soon as the money is recei-
we'd.
Very respectfully your obt. ser'vt,
WILLIAM EMMONS.
The undersigned have examined the en-
graved Portrait of Major Barry, by Lon
gacre, and pronounce it an excellent like
ness.
ANDREW STEVENSON.
Speaker Of the Ii. OF Rep.
o B. BROWN,
JESSE SPEIGHT,
DUTEE j. PEARCE,
| SAMUEL p. CARSON,
NJ st. CLAIR CLARK,
Clerk of the FL. of Rep
RICHARD M. JOHNSON,
S. X. HOBBIE,
JOHN Il. TEMPLE,
BARNABAS BATES,
AMBROS Fl. SEWER,
JONATHAN MsCARTY, of Ia.
81 ~ B. Please frank your Letter."
Now, fellow citizens, what is the trans
action disclosed by this little document
There are about 10000 post masters in
the Union, and probably, each Of them has
received one of these circulars, Ii each
postmaster procures only fire subscribers,
| and this is small average, there will be
raised the sum Of fifty thousand dollars to
go into the pocket of the postmaster gen.
eral Thus public officer who receives
salary of 5000 dollars year, makes use
oil his official station, and public depart.
ment, TO carry on speculation for his
own private benefit. For let it be obsery
ed these circulars are all distributed 10 the
sub postmasters free of expense: the list
OF subscribers returned. by them also are
free, Tor this IS the meaning ofthe IN r.,
at the end of the circular, please 6.nnk
your letter. and then the portraits will nm
doubtedly be franked to the sub postmas
tiers, TO be by them distributed amono the
subscribers What is this but maxi
the post office department great PED
DING ESTABLISHMENT, to retail over the
Union, at the public expense, likenesses
Of the postmaster general, for the purnose
OF putting money into his own pocket?
1t has been said, that this plan was rot
up by MIR Wittiam Emmons, who signs The
circular, without the knowledge of the
postmaster general. But who is William
Emmons BY what authority does He
direct the letters on this subject to be
Jran&edF Does any body believe that he
acts IN this matter, without the KNOWLEDGE
oil the head OF the department ? Has this
department, at Washington, become 60
utterly neglected and corrupt, that some
clerk IN the concern, can carry on a sna
culation of this kind, at the public exnense
and yet the chief man in the denartmen,
be ignorant oft? lift be So then ,h;s
lact alone, is dIsgraceful to the postmas.
ter general. 1t shows an inatten,;or ;,
the affairs oil his Office which is utterly in.
excusahle. '"'
But nobody believes the postmaster pe
neral was ignorant of it. il was Got nm
Tor his benefit, and the circular expressly
olrects The postmasters TO return The names
q subscribers and the money to Edmund 7,
6ro,en. Of the Post Office Department.
Tins Is one of the most barelaced at
tempts by public officer, to speculate at
the public expense, which has vet been
disclosed. 1T is sheer fraud upon the
public. The postmaster general might as
well peddle any thing else, through the
post office for his private profit, as his pic
ture. 1t is base, contemplate lob. and
if the people will suffer themselves 10 he
longer plundered in this way, they deserve
TO have their hard earrings suuandered IN
ia'ien party iavortes, and political adyep,
turers.
Inc election which took place yester-
udy, IN 'hls city, was contested with n
aeSree OF zeal and energetic exertion-
! OUT VIM iorbearance. good order and
regularity which ia hiobIy o,oJ;.tI