The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-08-26

"a watering place. we know not; but
al Il is, that while he is here, ne ought to do
Som ething about that mail and all other mails
lea ing this city.
We have recently heard version of the diff
Guilty between him and the Eastern contractors,
and we are disposed to believe that Cave Johnson
is in the wrong. 1t seems that the contractors
received the sum of six thousand dollars per year
for carrying the mails from this city to Boston,
but that within short time, Mr.. Johnson was in
the habit of filming them at his discretion, wheZ-
ever they did not act up to the letter of what he
thought right. The contractors objected to this,
and received their pay with these deductions, un-
der protest The contract expired on the 10Th Aug.
inst; and two weeks anterior to that time they
tilted the Postmaster General that as the mails
had increased since the making of the old
contract, they would not make a new one for
less than eight thousand dollars per year,
adding that, if he agreed TO give that sum,
they would carry the mails with all the regulari-
ty in their power, and say nothing about the
amounts deducted from them under the old con-
tract.
To this notice, we are informed, Mr.. John.
son paid attention; and the consequence
was, that the mails were left on the dock at
New York. This created much confusion;
and at the instance of some merchants, whose
business seriously suffered by the interruption of
mail communication, the contractors again
wrote TO Mr.. Johnson, repeating their PROPOSE
tons, and giving hun week further time to
reply. THIS second notice did not receive any
att-ntioa from Mr.. Johnson, and now the day
mail communication is completely stopped be-
tween Boston and New York.
These are the facts Of the case, as we heard
them, and there can be but one opinion az to
where the blame lies The inconvenience re-
suting from this unfortunate state Of things, Is
felt by every man in the community. AS
Mr.. Johnson is here on the spot, we hope he
will enter into some arrangements with the
contractors.
We must now beg our readers to preserve
their gravity for moment or two. Cave John
son has actually got a newspaper to defend
him The journal in question positively says,
that he is better postmaster than Mr.. Wick
life was! Well, if this is not species of praise
much worse than censure, we are very much
mistaken. If one egg is rotten, and another mus
ty, are we TO praise the musty one, because 1t is
not so much purified as the one that is actually
rottenl But why should we get eggs either
musty or rotten, when we pay for good, and
when we can obtain good ones in the market!
This is decidedly the severest cut of all. Only
think of Mr.. Cave Johnson being better post
master than Mr.. Wicklffe! Why, Mr.. Wicklifie
was not postmaster at all. lie was no better fit
ted to be postmaster than the renowned Jenny
Maher, the public gardener, was to be President
After the death of the lamented Harrison, and
until the election of Mr. Polk, there was, virtu-
ally, an interregnum in the Post Office Depart
ment. We were without actual President,
and we certainly were without Post Office.
We cannot think that Mr.. Johnson's defender
is in earnest We think he wished to give him
poke in the RIBS, in a sly cunning manner,
rather than to praise him.