The North-Carolina standard., 1845-11-26


of nine hundred and ninety.tfve dollar,T 0Ay
But our afectiouate neighbor more than l..
that the Standard gets "the Lions sboren r'0I'
one Of the Departments Mistaken ag,;r "on
the work we have ever done for the State ;. AT
ing advertisements, and indeed everv thin" as'uP
not been charged at more than 5000. ,s3A o u"
only work we have at any time received = ~'
any of the Departments exclusive of adr..: "on
ments inserted in the Standard, and abOr 'e q.
dollars worth Of work from Col. Wbeclo,,
ten quires of blanks last week from the c,on.,@ @
lers The Register says its Editor did M, a. r"0'
plain " whilst we were receiving that 6nn t
lars from Col. Wheeler for work and laborJ1."0 a0'
and that he " dcscends" not to such con,..,-'u
warfare" Admitted. Our neighbor has f""' r.
soul. He was SO careful of the reputation ofa'
excellent officer, Col WheeIer-so devoto5l. ~%
tached to him, and SO perfectly convinced tb.,t IT,
would do justice both to the State and to indir.
tals, that his complaints if really made ma
uttered only in auhispers! wit
We hope our readers will bear with nc >.
come to the cream of the joke for really mo,, =" y,
the Registers article is highly amusing Tt" "
Editor closes as follows:
"To show, however, that we are DOt,b. uu..-
ing individual which The "Standard" wo1,I
sinuate, he is now indebted to our generos,v f. n
nuodieunp of the patronage which he eG;or" w,
BY the new Post Office law, we are entitled =.
the exclusive publication OF the List of Letters ,J
vertised at the end of each quarter our Subsrrin
! tion being the largest of any in the State Pr
we have consented to alternate with the other no
pers, because that has been uniformly the prarico
here. We believe according TO the received in
! iterpretaion of that law, we are entitled 10 tbs
Advertisement now in that paper, noticing The A.
rival and departure of the Mails and if we werc
not more liberal than our neighbor, we sbopH
insist upon 1" a strist construction"
A plain statement will explain the above 10 both
Wings and Democrats. By the new Post Office
law the List of Letters mentioned is to be puk
lished in the paper having the largest circulation,
and under the construction put upon that law
the Postmaster General, that paper is to be select
ed which is found 10 have the largest circulation
in the community Immediately concerned in The
advertisement Now for whose benefit are the
letters advertised? Surely more for the bcne6tof
persons out of town-in the COunty-than for
those in town, for persons living here can call and
do call at their pleasure at the Post Office; and if
this be the true construction, we think we are en-
titled 10 the advertisement for we believe our list
IN the County is larger than the Registers Bus
we do not put it on this ground exclusively The
letters are required to be published three times, and
are paid for accordingly The Register prius
1900 Weeklies and 400 Scmi-Weeklics; and We
print 1400 Weeklies. The circulation of boil
| his papers is therefore two hundred more than
ours but if he publishes the list in his Weekly
he does not comply with the law, any more than
he does by publishing it in his Semi. Weekly, for
|our circulation S larger than either; nor can he
mend the matter by publishing it alternately in
the Weekly and semi-Weekly. for in neither ca"
does he stretch beyond US in circulation. This
seems to US to be conclusive in our favor
Soon after the present worthy Postmaster at
Raleigh came into office he sent US the list OF e'
ters, which we published, without thinking fora
moment that we were indebted " for that mOdr
cum to the generosity" of MIR. Gales But
that gentleman was wide awake Five dollars
more (the price generally for advertising the et'
ters) would Just make that 1895 an even thOus-
and and so he went to the Postmaster and put IN
his claim. It was heard respectfully, and that Of
ficer mentioned the matter TO US. We requested
him to say to Mr. Gales that we were not dispOS'
ed to dispute about the matter; that, on the con-
trary, we desired to be liberal; and thai, whilst
we distinctly disclaimcd all intention of putting
Mr. Gales under~uny obligations 10 US, we never
theless had no idea Of yielding our right 10 The
advertisement The advertisement was then CIV
en- TO the Register for one time only; and now, 10
the face of these facts, the Editor has the haTaE
hood to boast of his generosity " towards US!
AS to the other advertisement about the arrival
and departure of the Mails, we are happy to IN
form the Register that we publish that w'hou
charge, for the benefit Of our readers; and lna.
as we have not taken out patent for it he IS wei
come TO copy it to his hearts content
These are small matters it is true, and we ask
pardon of our readers for having gone so nucn
into detail; but what we have said was Some"nu'
important by way of justice to ourselves ana DC
Sides small matters often furnish indexes 10 chatoc.
ter We scorn the poor creature who begs for OF
6ce or for patronage. Humble as we are there IS
no office within the gift of Gov. Graham when
we would have, nor has he any patronage In any
of his Departments which we would condeSceHu
to ask for. We are not talking for ourselves, Ou'
for justice, and in behalf of tax-ridden peOp'f'
whose money is too often squandered upon grace
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