The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-01-07

- 'hoh.iS u fi'cttah hust stt5>i our Pr MS
that We cam always publ 81 paper without
being paid, ana .la, cur call upon ihe,a Is By no
means unreasonable. .s-..A word 10 The wise
Is sufficient
An Advocate for the ,srs sen; Nail Arrange
ments from ths, ago TO this city.
Oar whig n~igbor, who never allows US to
cril,ci.c the conduct of his fri, nds in Office,
~i'hou, promp y calling US I" account, hes
had his rirtaoaS Indignation aroused, by the
publication in our issue If the 3lsi ut, Of i
correspondence from Washington, IN relation 70
the present mail arrangements between Chicago
and this City. In hts effort to excuse the neg
kct of the Post Office Department, H. seems t.
lose sight entirely, Of tn Amos. universal
complaints through the press of the West, wi h.
out distinction Of party, and the fui'less efforts
made, by the people of the West, aud especially
ct Northern and Southern Iowa, 10 reform the
abuses of this particular department. Scarcely
an exchange paper from Kentucky, Missouri
Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa, finds its wav 10
this city, but portion of It's editorial columns
are devoted to ccnsuring The Department, for
neglects in the transportation ot mails And
many of the other Western States, which ap.
proxima'e more nearly to those Of the East
(wilere the slghtes, neglects are promptly no
ticed and correctcd) find trequcn. causes to
plain. Even the last No. of the s'MIsspuri Re-
publican, whose editors perhaps feel as deep an
and are bound by Us nlaay considerations of par.
~ policy, 10 do so, as any journal in tie coun-
try, contains an editorial severely censuciar the
Post Master Generals subordinate at New York,
for neglect in transmitting the Western mails.
Exchanges are eight and ten days in reaching
this City from st. Louis, and from fifteen to
twenty days from Washington and New York,
before their mutllatcd carcascs find resting
place IN cur Office And vet, notwithstanding
these glaring defects which have been a con
slant source of complaint ior years, which have
produced mcalcuaLlc inconvc iicncc and it is
reasonable to suppose from unnecessary and
inexcusab!e delays, have cost the people large
amount of treasure, we find in the editor of the
dubuque Tribune most ready and raliaat
defender OF the officers administering this de-
partment.
The comments of our nci.hbor seem to b,.
very inconsistent and onc-sded. He acknowl-
edges that "Col. Fank may haze too much IN
faenec ariM the Department, an matters connected
rah Hestcrn mail transpo,iat:oa,' precisely
what We have complained of, but prcsumcs SEN
at"r Jones, and ourselves care nothing about
the matter, except as it affords an excuse for
abusing the administration, simply because We
have brought this fact to the notice of the pub
lie. According 10 this reasoning, a defect may
exist causing incalcnlable injury 10 the public,
and SO long as nothing is said about it publicly,
1t is glaring public grievance, but the moment
democratic Office holder, or democratic Jour
nal, in dischargng high and commcndiblc
trust, feels constrained to lay the fac, before the
public, 1t is at once shorn of its Justice and vir-
tue aud in place of exciting public inyes igaton,
and by that means, producing s,lulary reform,
1t only forms just fication for such neglect :;
and in place of suhjccting the offenders 10 pub
lie censure, makes them oct models of public
propriety, justice and virtue. This is the incv-
liable result, to which the rcas 1miag Of our whir
contemporary le~ds enc. Now, we submit, who
is the best friend to the public, he who points
cut the injuries inflicted upon The people and
suggests rational remedy for them, or he,
who seeing, feeling and acknowledging these
injuries, counsels submission to them and al
iempts 10 excuse, without justifyng the parties
who infiict them. This is question which may
30 to the jury.
1t is doubted by cur contemporary, whether The
change in the time OF transmitting the mails
from Chicago to this city, made in July 1889,
but which by the immortal fiat of Lieut. Post
Master General John Frink, was speedily re-
voked, was authorized by law We presume
the change was made, agreeable to the provis-
ions of some Act, or no such departure from the
established views of Lieut.. General Frnk, and
his especial friends about Galena, would have
been hazarded without first consulting him as to
the ProPriety of such change. We have no
time Just at this particular junctu-c of afflirs,
being the second day after 'New Year. to look
:
and especially of our ever ignorant and ca
teehistical neighbor, the details connected with
this subject. But in order that our neinhbor.
shall reap no benefit from this familiar exl:bi-
ton of his negative and ca:cchistcal character,
we intend in a few days to collect togthcr and
s ubmit the facts.
But, for arguments sake, suppose that there
had been no law authorizing such a change, but
the department realizing that public interest and
convenience, demanded it-that the inhabitants
Of Northern Iowa, Minnesota and portion of
Wisconsin. possessed stronger claims upon the
favor and attention of the government, than a
dezen men in Chicago and Galena, whose sell
fshness precluded them from discriminating be-
tween private and public interest and between
solemn duty which the government owes to
the people, and the granting of questionable
privileges to monopos.s, who glory in being
permitted to abuse the public and grind the poor,
proceed to make the change, and although it
works admirably for the public benefit, in less
than two months, they revoke the order and re-
instate the old order of things; upon what prin-
ciFie OF public justice, official duty and COM
mon honesty, does our neghbcr acc punt for such
conduct. Before making such change, Of
course the Department had taken steps to &C
qrire the necessary information to Justify and
require the change. This reform once entered
into, there was certainly no excuse for abolishing
It, unless It was established that our population
was diminishing, our trade falling off and our
country degenerating into the wildness, in which
the savages found and left it, which we presume
no one, not even our ncighbor, will be simple
enough to clam. In view then of the rapidly
increasing population, improvements, wealth
and Importance of cur country in view of the
many anncyances to the people under the pres
ent mai! arrangements and the many complaints
made TO the Department desiring their correc
ton; in view ofan order having issued from the
Department in July 1850, based upon public
justice and the necessity of such a change, we
ask our neighbor and those who sustain this
administration rigbt or tcroag, why that change