The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-10-11
For the Eyansyille Journal

ihos'p 'hVic - Oil dillClc duuIccscu lO Tie IuO-
lie, over the signature of B. F. Dupuy. no Doubt
by him intended as reply TO my communica-
ton. published in your paper of the 81 inst
On first reading the article concluded not to
reply TO il, from the fact that it don't dis
prove any Of the charges which made in my
communication of the Sd inst, on reflection,
however, thought best to reply to it. The
gentleman, after very learnedly citing the Post
Office laws and regulations, points to chap. T.
sec. 60 of Post Office regulations, which, he
says, irstructs him as follows: When mail
arrives on Sunday the Postmast er will keep his
office open for one hour, or more if the public
convenience require it, after the arrival and as
sorlment thereof, unless it be during the time
Of public worship, in which case he will open
the Office one hour or more if necessary, after
the same has ceased; now in my former CON-
munication, stated that mail had arrived on
the previous Sunday in ample time for its as
sortment, and delivery, and again repeat it
here. that it did arrive in time TO be assorted
and delivered before the hour of Church meet
ing; now the gentleman states that the mail in
question did not arrive at his Office until after
3 o'clock, p. M. on Sunday, by his time, aud
not until afterhis Assistant had left for Church,
and any other statement is false; now | can
prove that the mail did arrive before the hour
OF o'clock, and that by such proof, that were
he arraigned before Court of Justice on the
issue, it would consign him to term of from
two TO five years in Jacksonville, now for the
proof accompanying this, is the sworn affida-
Wit of VIM. Green, who carried the mail bags
in question from the Wharf Boat, after its de-
livery here by the Lewis Wetzel, on Sunday
last, and not until after he had delivered it at
the Post Office, and returned to the Wharf
Boat was it o'clock, according to their time
on said Boat, and TO this he has testified to
under the solenInity OF an oath. Taylor & But
Ter keePa Register of the arrival of Steam
Boats at this landing, ii is there recorded in
the hand writing of Z. Gill Harvey that the
boat arrived at half past two o'clock. Now by
the affidavit OF VIM. Green and by the fact
that the boat is registered as having arrived
here at half past two, have not made out
clear case without any other circumstance in
relation thereto, whatever. will adduce some
other evidence to shew that the mail did arrive
as stated, before o'clock, and before his Assis-
tant had gone TO Church; now will state that
Jas. Lockhart and myself saw the mail on its
way from the boat TO the Post Office, and that
1t was then By our time half past two o'clock,
and after waiting long enough in the office Of
the former as we supposed for the mail 10 be
assorted, we left for the Post Office, and OH our
reaching Main street, this Assistant who is al
luded to as having gone to Church, came out
Iof the store Of the writer and was by him in
formed that mail had arrived sometime pre-
vious, when he Immediately fastened towards
the Post Office. Now this Assistant is COM
municant of the LIST Presbyterian Church, and
member offs choir and it is to be presumed
if 3 O'Clock had arrived he would be in his seat
in that Church; still further when we got to
the Office we were informed by member of
the Postmasters family then leaving for Church,
that the mail was being assorted, and the office
would be opened in ten or fifteen minutes;-
lnow, in the face of all these facts, the gentle
man has had the hardihood 10 accuse me OF
lalsehood through the columns of the Demo
crat. | now Indignantly hurl back the charge
OF falsehood TO the source from whence il came,
and when that man charges any individual in
T this community with falsehood--l would SAY
to that individual to point him to The charge
LOT falsehood against me, and then to the alta
ldavit of VIM. Green, and TO the steam boat Re.
gister OF Oct. LIST, 1913, kept by Taylor & But
Ter. The gentleman states, when fault is 10
be found, TO GO TO him in a friendly manner,
and complain OF the grievance, and that he
would at once rectify it--this has been done
q by numbers,and what has been the consequence,
tornado OF abuse, aud reference TO the Post
u office laws, chap. z. sec. 65. The gentleman
e has worked himself into the belief that he has
: rendered satisfaction, aud made very efficient
/ Postmaster. As DIR. Johnston SAYS, il NAV be
proper 10 deceive others, but scarcely worth
: while to deceive oneself-in this case he eyre
/ giously deceives himself, and not others. ASK
every man, woman and child in this commu
nifty who have had occasion TO go TO the office
. and | will venture to say, that nineteen-twen
tieths OF them have been, after asking civil
: question, and expecting acivil answer, in place
thereof have been rudely repulsed, and thu
writer OF this, hearing so often how others haC
Jared there, has ceased almost altogether goinl
: to the Office, at the same lime having almos
daily business there. But he states that hi
prosecutors and slanderers had no just cause o
complaint, and that was the reason why the,
a howled SO loud. How preposterous. what an
g assumption. Being told Dy member of hi
;. own family that the mail was being assorted
and that the Office would be open in ten o