New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-02-03
rive have more Hardware facts WIN a
GREAT deal else, inevitably crowded out by Inc
la,rtb of Mr. Calhoun's Letter.
From the East Again /!

From the East Again!
~ BY the politeness OF one OF the fos' once
EXPRESS Messengers who had Just returned from
Roston. where he had been with the mail containing
letters. ETC. for the steamer, we were favored al
late hour last night with the Boston Atias, rom
which we learn that ABBOTT has been elected 10
Congress from the lid District by majority OF o5
,,o,es over all others So the Massachusetts Dele
cation is now full. The vote stands for Amos Alb
bott Wing, 1890: Osgood, Loco, 1865; scattering,
800. At the lst January trial Abbott received 3l32
Mansur, 9, 454 scattering, 892. Wing gain, III.
When the messenger left Boston at q O'Clock on
Thursday. fifteen hundred men at work en-
deavorine 10 clear away the ice, so as to let the
Britannia put to sea, but he thought the chances
decidedly against her getting of that day, as the ice
was supposed to extend some SIX or seven miles out.
Mails and Expresses.
We received Yesterday three Boston Mails
the first which had reached US since the proceed
ing Sunday snornng. Meantime, all these ad-
vices had been anticipated on preceding days by
the Expresses Handen's having brought US
Tuesdays Boston papers on Wednesday night,
and Wednesdays evening included on Thurs
day night But for the Expresses, Boston and all
Down East would have remained showed under
to our CITY and all South of us from Saturday
night 10 the succeeding Friday. Meantime, the
same routes were open to the Mails as to the Ex-
presses; and they were under the same obhga-
tons to despatch. But they were conducted on
a different footing Our Postmaster was dining
and winning great men at Washington, to promote
certain cherished purposes, while Harnden, and
Adams and Hall, were hiring swift teams, get
ting aboard themselves, and pushing off express
through cold and darkness to Boston. Their let
ters were at Boston in season for the Steamship,
Harnden carving his own Mail, and paying the
Government full postage for doing the business
they didn't do, and wouldn't do properly So
we 60.
II has been the fashion of our Postmaster
to advertise that all Letters for the Steam
ships must be sent through the Mails and
the Postage paid, else they would stand next
to no chance to be sent This is gam
mon. Mr.. Hale, (who has hitherto alone ad
vertised to take letters to the steamship:
at less than Postage has always gone on HIM
self, and seen his letters put into the Steamship
Mailbags. But it turns out that part of the
regular U. S. Mail made up here for the Steam
ship of the 18th December did not 90 in that ship
that it was left behind by some gross blunder
at Norwich, and so lay over. Now it became the
imperative duty of the Boston Postmaster to give
notice of this niscarriage-to return the letters
here, and enable the writer's to send them by
packets or apprise their Foreign Correspondents
of the difficulty. But nothing like this was done
the Postmaster maintained profound silence !;
the writers Of the letters were left in the I'M
doubling conviction that their letters had been
sent and received; and were astounded on the
arrival of the last Steamer by the receipt of let
tiers of inquiry, wishing to know why they had
not written or RENTED according to promise
Mr.. Postmaster Graham, hereupon applied to Mr..
Postmaster Greene on the subject, and he replies
with the coolest imperturbabiity that the letters
were left behind at Norwich, but were all for
warded by the Steamship Of Jan. 1st-sixtcen
days behind time. No regret-no explanation o
his profound scnce-no shadow of apology fol
the cruel mischief
1t gives us no pleasure to state these facts
We wish they did not exist But the facts are
SO and it is a fact that James w. Hale has an
office in Wall.street where letters are daily for
warded to and received from Boston at a postage
of sir cents, against the Isl charged by the Go,
vernment,) and his letters are delivered INTO the
bargain, for which the Government charges two
cents more and his letters of Monday reached
Boston on Wednesday, while the Governments
had not done so up to our last advices. So the
American Mail Company is carrying letters 10,
six cents 10 Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore
and daily extending its business.
All this must be stopped. One Post Office
establishment for the whole country is far better
and cheaper than dozen. There must be but
one Mail, and the others must be used up. But
to effect this the Government must greatly re
duce its rates of Postage and lnvlgorate It's Maj
service Let it take that course-decldedly
thoroughly-and public sentiment will rally to 1T
support, and the work be done.
British coumn in our last article the Of Int
(by OF the types after the proof a6 bes'
stead OF $3.50. The obvious.
MAINE.-Returns have been received from al
the towns of the With Congressional Distnc,
except Is, and strong hopes are entertained o.
the election of the Wing candidate. The vote
stands for Robinson, Wing, 1862; Cary, Loco
3,l7S; scattering, us; Robinson over all, Go
AT the last election the vote stood in the same
towns, for Robinson, 1922 Cary, 2,o57 scat
tering, $50. Majority against Robinson, 1865
A rain of SO votes in the towns to be heard from
will secure the election.