The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-07-23

D'seontlnnancse me Post Onee Situation >, s,o,,-
good
All thanks TO you Cave Johnson for the d.susteh of
this letter very knowing mana very wise man "a
Csvevery; understands himself perfectly knows the
localities of the country can't fooled by every ooup
try squire; is the very prince OF all Postmaster Gene
rails, past or come Now to Some four or i've
hundred people in and large acturng vii
lage deprived Of the privileges Of Post Once the
enjoyment of which they have been for nearly half
century
Our Post Ofcei disco ntinued- our citizens
obliged to obtain their letters from ONCE situated
miles distant In small outof theway place, con-
tanning not fourth Of the population that village
has with very little business and whose people do not
receive in month half letters and papers
that passed through the Office Of sposwood in day
We have objection to the economical provisions
which the Post Office Department has thought proper to
adopt by reducing the number Of Offices Not in the
least We rather admire the policy. What
has discontinued our Post ONCE and Obliged Us to
60 or send to great and nconvenent distance without
the slightest reference TO numbers the amount Of
done IN our village or to the correspondence
| position Of the place.
the camden and Amboy Railroad passes through. the
VILLAGE 1t contains four stores four large manufactures
hotels. The Old Bridge where the Office Is now placed
contains two stores tavern church, does very little
Judge OF the propety OF the conduct OF the Post
omss Department , And yet there is very little
quarterly returns from both Offices they tell their
stories Where wrong exists people think right
should take It's place We shall be slow to use the
means
miscellaneous.
The commencement exercises at Rutgers College,
will take place Wednesday Of next week The socie-
ties will be addressed Tuesday by Theodore Romeyn
Of Detroit and the address before the Alumni will be
delivered on the same day by the Rev. A. B. Pater-
son, of Princeton.
The Bangor Wing states that there are many fears
that the West Branch logs will not reach ths mills the
present 1t Is said that II this should the case
there will be deficiency of nearly quite fifty millions
feet of lumber from the average Of the last two years
| Mr.. C. S. Palmer, of Norwich Conn, is at New Bed
ford for the purpose Of introducing the much approved
whaling guns, used in killing whales and proposes try
ing several experiments with the bomb explosive lance
| on Fish Island.
| The telegraph is progressing west. Mr. w. B. Wood
Is the building agent from Detroit to Michigan City
Contracts have been made for erecting the posts
ceive the wire, from Detroit Niles Twenty Of
the wire to be delivered at the former place by
| tract, on the LIST OF September
Captain Atwood, Of the schooner Cygnet after being
out three days from Pensacola bound Tampco found
slave concealed board-he returned and delivered
him to the authorities Of that place.
The hydraulic buildings the Falls ut Rochester
were burned down on Wednesday morning. They were
occupied by pail and sash factory two wooen facto-
res and an oil mill The property destroyed partly
insured. Loss from II 900 to Sl5 000