The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-08-14
Fom the Mississippi Free Trader
To the Editor of the Globe:

To the Editor Of the Globe:
| have seen an article in your paper of the 18th
July instant, noticing the opinion Of the Natchez
Courier, respecting Treasury note which was ad-
vertised as lost sometime since by Mr. Bemiss, and
which the Courier says was traced to the Natchez
Post Office" and you say, respecting which, no
thing further has TRANSFERRED" The Courier SAYS
here is one hundred dollars stolen and admitted tt
have been distracted from the Natchez Post Office
Now sir, these statements are all gratuitous. Who
admits that the note distracted at the Natchez
Post Office? The Courier does, but never have
1t possible and probable but not certain. And how
is it that nothing about the note has transpired p
| Something further has transpired, which was mo-
thought proper to be told to the Courier. From the
Couricrs expression " traced to the Natchez Pos
Othce," it seems to imply that it had come .afel,
from some other Post Office, as far as Natchex, or
the way to its place of destination. IL never has
been admitted by the Postmaster, that the note was
stolen distracted at the Natcbez Post Office al
though it is admitted that possible and from cir
cumstances, very likely and it is equally certain that
it might have been taken out of the mail after lea wing
Natchez 1t is not true that nothing further has tran
spired concerning the note has been traced to the
house of Iced Co., merchants, at New Orleans
and paid into the Custom-house for them, eight days
after it was said to be deposited in the Post Office al
Natchez.
From this, it has been inferred that it was taken at
Nachez, because the mail is supposed to have been
sent up the Mississippi river, which would most pro-
badly have prevented it from being taken from the
mail and finding its way back to New Orleans in so
short time. The whole of this suppostion is
neous, inasmuch as the mail which should have con-
tanned the note, is ,oeA known to have been sent by
by New Orleans, Mobile, &C., and it may have been
taken from the mail after leaving Natchez and taken
TO New Orleans in the time mentioned.
Mr.. Bcmss states that he deposited the letter con-
tanning the note, on the 29th of September last ad
dressed to Hook Townsend, in New York. The
mail in which that letter should have been put was
/ made by the that adj n ms on he
18th of August last for Nashville, which ought to
have contained letter enclosing sixty dollars. The
record shews his hand writing which is follows
Unpaid 25c.-paid SI-free. On inquring at the
Post Office Department and of the Postmaster at
Nashville, 1t appears that no such post-b had ar
rived at either place 1t follows of course that the
person making up the mall must either have made
false record pocketed the sixty dollars and destroy
the other letters or if he made up the mail honestly
including the letter containing the sixty dollars, and
sent 1t away properly, that the package was taken
from the mail the route and the post bill and the
letters destroyed after leaving Natchez.
The loss OF the sixty dollars and the one hundred
dollar note, being both from mails made up by the
same person. together with other suspicious clrcum-
stances, induced the postmaster and his assistants,
and MIR. Bryant and MIR. Brown special agents of the
Post Office Department, to believe that the person
who made up the mail, distracted the note. In the
sixty dollar loss, Mr. Bryant was so well satisfied
that the man that made up the mail took it, that he
would have prosecuted him if had been practicable
He departed while Mr.. Bryant was here, and has not
returned.
ii IS not proper Tor me, necessary for the good
OF the community, that / should publish his name
unless he should be taken. Notwithstanding all these
circumstances, those letters may have been honestly
mailed and sent away, and may have been distracted
from the mail after leaving the Natchez Post Office.
The postmaster had confidence in the man that made
up those mails till about the first week Of last Octo-
Der; since that time, he has been precluded from the
post office. The assistants he then had have been
discharged and others procured The postmaster
cannot know, when he employs assistants, whether
they are honest. He feels much gratifed, however,
that so few losses have happened in eight years Of bis
management of the post office at Natcbez and that
he has been able to guard the public interests well
as he has. II any are afraid to ntrust their money
through this flee, is not than one out of FIVE
thousand The editor of the Courier himself re-
ceiyes remitances almost daily through this Office,
and has not in eight years complained of loss
He would, if necessary, iDtrust millions in it, Per-
sonal, political hatred, the expression of
opinions that do not exist.
WOODSON WREN, p. M.
Posr OFFICE, Natchez, July 26, lS43
AS an act of justice to the Postmaster the Globe
will please give the above An Insertion