The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-30
THE DISTRIBUTING POST OFFICE.

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The papers Of Pla,teville and Mineral Point
are making themselves ridiculous by their whin-
ing for the re location Of the Distrbu ing Pos,
Office at Galena. We not much surprised
that these and other towns Of Wisconsin, the
existence of which, like Lansing in Iowa, de-
ponds upon "ihe breath that made them, OF tina,
may nnmake," should bow at the nod OF their
masters, but when they undertake TO dictate lar
The interests Of Dubuque tLey ovrrreaeh them
selves aud get swamPed.
One Of these papers thinks that sslhe mails for
Dubuque and the County ives, Of it would moi
be delayed by the re Location of the Distributing
Office at Galena, while for their section j, would
We expedited" To the whole Of This we give a
fiat denial. First there is not man who resided
IN Dubuque while the d. r 0. was in Gaena,
who cannot make oath, if necessary, that our
mails were delayed there at least twelve hours
It's notorious that our Citizens have arrived III
Galepa, with the mail, at all hours after one
o'clock p. M. and did not reach their homes un.il
one O'Clock the next day. This was not the ac-
cidental occurrence of few days, month, or a
year, but of a series Of years. IL is useless 10
waste words on this subject in contrad ction OF
an assertion absurd. A letter was necer
known to reach Dubuque, from New York, in
less than FIVE days until The d. P. Q. went into
operation here, and since the LIST of July last,
our New York letters have reached us in three
days and four hours, just four hours longer
than they would be, were our mails not delayed
even now, at Galena.
Secondly. the truth in regard to this matter is,
as the people Of Northern and Western Wiscon-
sin should know, that the location Of the ID
O. either here or OF Galena, does not affect them
;xne 10th. The inconvenience to them, if any
which we doubt, arises first from improper dis
trib lton at Chicago, and secondly from defec
tive mail recommendations Chicago, nor no
other Eastern D. P. o. has the right TO send
Wisconsin mail matter to this ID. P. o. whether
it be located at Dubuque or Galena, more
than Dubuque or Galena would have To mail
direct to any and every petty Post Office in Mi
chigan, Ohio, or New York. The people of
Wisconsin should therefore see that their CEN
sures are wrongfully applied. Their batteries
should be turned to Chicago, and not in this d.
recton Could not Mineral Point and Platte
vile receive their mail matter direct from Chi
cage, by way of Madison, one day at least, ear
lier than BY way of Galena Most certainly,
and they know ii we'll! So far then, their clam
or is sll CANNON
But let us take another view of this case, in
connection with the mil failures which we
shall have after the first Of July, next. In the
first place the great Eastern mail will be deliver
ed 10 Us by Railroad in the afternoon of the same
day that it leaves Chicago, after the first OF
June next. Ifthis mail were distributed al Ga |
lena, the business men Of Dubuque could not get
would be at Dubuque before the mail bags could |
be delivered from the Galena depot to the Pos, |
Office. Not only Dubuque, but the whole north I
westy including Minnesota and the River
Towns in Wisconsin, would suffer seriously by |
this delay, while Galena alone would reap the
benefit, but lie, these mails be distributed at
Dubuque, and our business men would reply TO
their letters by the Express train of the next
morning. The mails would be despatched into
the Country north and west by the various lines
going out that morning The Southern Wis
consn mail by way of Benton, Shullsburg, and
Monroe, to Janssvlle-the central Wisconsin
by way Of Potos, Platville, and Mineral point
10 Madison, and the Northern Wisconsin from
Prairie Du Chem, Prairie La Crosse and other
river Towns. All will be accommodated from
r. ~ n 1
than would be possible from way station like
Galena. In the one case, all would be accom-
modated, but Galena only by the location of the
d. p. .. there. This much for the present.
AID For TuRKEY.-A committee of Hun
rarians In New York have published an anneal