New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-11
The New Pest-OGce.
Edifar, Of TAs T,S@s:

Iobserye that a committee hiss been appointed
by The Beard Of Assisian. Aldermen to confer With
the General Cove rnmel. relative 70 se'sc-insa
site and erecting a suitable bailding in this City,
fr the accommodation OF the Post.Oh;e, U. s.
Courts, Mnshal's tlice, &C. Believing the ssbjsct
matter here referred 10, to be one 10 Which this
entire community has a deep interest take lesYe
10 state a few considerations which, in M jaas-
uert, ougb, 70 ioeaeace the choice OF site 0s tbs
building 10 question.
The POst.OHice, more than any o:her public
building, ought to be so placed 70 De coavenien,
AID accessible TO oil Of both sexes. No location ia
the crowded streets below the Park can Afford ths
requisite facilities in thiI respect For years psst
tie difficulty Of reaching the Post. Ol,e has been
60 great that females, and indeed, nearly every
other class of our citizens, with the exception Of
the comparatively small number who are engaged
in wholesale mercantile business have been CON
PEELED 10 rely upon the penny post and letter ex
presses for their cores pondeDce-thus imposing
addition of two cents, forty per cent upon that
portion of our citizens who of all Others are least
able % meet the tax. Considering the rapid en-.
crosehmepts of the wholesale business upon all
that portion Of the City lying below the PARK, the
evil Just referred to will grow worse aud worse
while the continued imposition OF the tax OF two
cents in view of the probable reduction OF the rate
OF letter postage 10 the uniform rate OF three cents
is the more glaringly onerous and UNJUST
Perhaps no more equitable rule can be lHd down
10 govern the selection OF site Tor the Post Once,
than that il shall be so placed as to Accommodate
the largest number Of citizens, taking care not
TO exclude any from participation IN It's benefits.
This proposition, sm well aware, will be met by
TIE thre adhaYa arpumnnt that thORp grhO tina
largest shave Of the postage ought to be allowed 70
place the Post Office where their convenience viii
be best promoted. In other words, tha, the inter.
ests or rather the convenience, of two oc three
thousand persons shall be permitted 10 out wegh
those Of perhaps two hundred Thousand. Nov it
sno part of my plan TO overlook the wants of the
great mercantile houses, but | do contend that to
consult their preferences to the exclusion OF every
other class, is antirepublicsn.
The pressure of vehicles in the lower part OF
Broadway, " hch has grown to be so great an evil
as to demand imperatiyely remedy OF some sort'
would be measursbly done away by building the
new Post OlEice above the junction of Chatham st
The change OF location tor the Post Odice will
have a tendency 10 equaliZe the value OF property
above ard below the Park Herein, spprehend,
will be found TO lie the chief reason for the opPosI
ton which is certain to be arrayed against the
measure. The same influences will doubtless be
again marshaed against the removal OF the Post
yesrs sgo to place iE there but it remains to be
demonstrated whether venali'y will meet with the
same success under this Admins ration that it did
under that Of John Tyler. There is sooi ground q
believe that the puolic convenience, and not the
pr. liz Of partisan Clique, will nov govern the
Depsr,men ut at Washington; hence it behooves
our citizens to make knogn their wants by pei.
tion or public meeting.
Perhaps no spot can be selected Tor the Post o.
fee. | S. Courts &c which, while II Wi perfectly
accommodate the downtown merchants, will at
the same time 80 well satisfy the wants OF the re-
mainder of our citizeIs as that nov occupied by
the Brick Church Situated on the side of the
Park, snd standing on three streets, building
erected here can always be thoroughly lighted,
while the access to it must forever continue easy
End safe for females and children, as well as for
man. This site, in my opinion, offers fair com
promise betv zen the up and down town interests,
snd il will, doubt Lot, be equally acceptable to
the inhabitants OF the east AID west sides OF the
Cjty A SUBSCRIBER.