Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-10-13
From ne ". Y. Express.
THE POST OFFICE DEPAR rMEST
AND ITS NAN AGEMENr A. :

NV WI ~ hA.Gh NOanfNAllAA OF kl0 /
management of the Post Office ID pact
ment as there is just now. The great
Southern mail seldom reuche. the chief
Southwestern commercial emporium Of
the Union IN season, and from Chicago
on the Lakes to Easport on the Bay of
Passamaquojly, com 'laint, against the
irregularities, cxactious znh mear n sss
OF the Department IL general. IL see MS
TO lay Itself out every way 10 skin the
public OF a penny. by all .Dris Of devi-
ces, OF double-lst,or char.ing, sPongng,
DC. &c.-by espionage into mems bust.
ness, and peepIng into meas letters, il
has C 'ntrIved Ia bring an Oiherwi.e pop
ular department Of the government into
a general odlum, such as no adninlstra-
ton could sustain, if it were not the pc
cullaTIIy OF this administrators that il
covets no one 10 sustain il, but seems To
love 70 rue in spite Of general opinion.
The last attempt At spongin9 is upon
the out-oi-tOwn readers OF the nevspa
Pers Of the day. The Circular cf Mr..
AIcktiife upon this subject, we nave al
ready laid before our readers, in which,
IL is seen, that an attempt is TO b. made
10 prevent every body from readinu
newspapers except such as come through
the mails. This, as we have ocen be.
tore established, is not only a violation
OF law, and of common sense (Which
last is perhaps It's chief recommends.
ton to the present administration of
The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, If not 80, Mr..
NickiIite has the merit Of first discover
ing the power 10 exercise this law oil
prohibition that he is now trying eve
ry where 10 put in force. II not a dis
foceTy with him, 4 certainly was with
his predecessor, MIR. Niles, who, howev.
or, had the good sense soon 10 abandon
IT., destitute as he was OF the csSeatialily
In a public functionary, even in his sane
moments, but probably never sufficient
ly destitute Of il, even now that BE is in
a Lunaiic Asylum, thus, as Mr. Wick
iine does, TO outrage all propriety, AMI
all public opinion in a vain effort 10 con
me all newspapers To his miserable
mails. What amazes Us, is that the
President himself, who, as the head of
the government, must naturally care
somethIng for mems good will, or IN
VIII, should thus suffer a subordinate so
to trlfle with the whole hold the admin
Isiration has on the Public-for he must
see, II he now ever does see, that this
bow falls with more force upon the Ty.
Ter Penny Press than upon any other
presses IN the country. Thus even his
organs In which are his lists Of letters, :
such as the New York Sun and Phila- :
deiphia Ledger, are out in full denuncia :
tlon OF his PoStmas;er's scheme. =
The mails, as now managed, are ut. .
terly incompetent for the transaction of :
the business of the country. In the first .
place, the heads do not keep up with the p,
spirit and activity Of the tunes. Private :
enterprise beats and rouis the mails ev-t
cry where. wnere the two come into :
competition; and the heads Of the
Fost OIce department have not ingenu =
lty and activity enough to Keep up with .
this splrll Of the times. The mails n rg !
only lazy, behiRd-hand, uncertain. a.,
aud irregular, and often unsafe. but /
they are dear too. The cost of trans.
portation by Them is ten times what the
business Is worth. Letters can be car.
RED on all The great routes infinitely
cheaper. Newspapers cannot 90 in
them TO many parts OF the country, i'll
lhey W uld be newspapers when they get q
there. But what is now abominablc. Is 5
that a de artment so miserablv MANAGED
as 10 become a public nuisance. should
now not cnIy for the first time enforce
laws, but actually invent laws to compel
the people TO use IT,. Az, that a depart. Il
menl So lazy, with the whole resources q
OF me government at its disposal, that O
a single individual Oh his O Vn means. d,
III Iair competition can beat it, SHOULD o
mus strive To maintain its laziness by
increasing us penalties and agravating Y
us mohoPoiy!-a. department, indeed,
active only IN its espionage. and %inigen. d
ioas only IN its peeping into the thick >
ness Of letters to detect the number Of ,
It's ioids, while 1t is literally Indifferent d
10 the public good, and abandsnedlv II.
ert IN doing any thing Tor promotI6gilI
we hesitate not to say that If Mr. Wick. !
lille were 10 exert my thing like Tho
amount OF industry in the transportation
OF MS mails that he Uxerts to pet double i
postage, or 10 pick out letters or news. -,
papers from peoples pockets, or tronks .
mat ne need fear no co mention .rro,,, :
'he private eNpresses-klr it is the no. =
cnliar Characteristic Of this departren, b
thst u IS bright only in lutle things. bui I
So".eHP'lole IN every thing Important.
9 ms GROWING eifort oC the. depa rtment
10 cramP the whole, 1sisspapet ~circuIa. I
ton within ITS mailss3b the'eksf d'ggrrs
OF IT'S atministTsaon. II will siyuslize
the Postmaster general hereafter ir nnTl,
give HIM Immortality il requires I'M
deed a brave man thus to defy common
sense, and the common necessity Of the
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