New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-13

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by the return stsge. for little Charley the darling sni
only child Of yor house is taken suddenly and danger
ousy i'll and YOU cannot 20 and you too oo- 70 send
soecial messenger and therefore write the letter In
vonr aeair YOU apply TO the driver 70 take your
lotto, ana ace II delivered Ny dear fellow | would
"doitir 4 minute. but the Law forbids me. cannot
"taIas letter within mile Of post Office without b.
Sc iectue uysef to fine and imprisonment. ID Use 20
30 II but ldTom Beden, down To- dens7ille saOre
abe would have me indicted if didn't ql- it wors n
ANYTHING else cause voted agn i'm - las election,
believe" You are about begging the favor Of pas
senger 70 carr your rejected letter when old Squire
srieoips the postmaster comes out With the mail bag
ib he has only detained twenty minutes instead
.ever allowed by law, and stops that contraband
traffic Nv telling the tmid old gentleman who is taking
vopr letter that passengers in mil stage fine
,bIe bv law for carving letters He il about to hand
= Lsck when good natured honest specimen of blunt
fellow sings out What's that-agin the law-d-a the
al,ugiye me the letter. viii carry it, so he did
and reolv meant 70 deliver IT, but be forgot it, until past
tte pace much to his cbagrin and sady TO your dissp
poinmeDt
Poor Charter! How be listened for the stage
drivers horn for with it would come bis mother.
Poor mother She never saw her Charley alive-he
died in bis fat lers arms before morning. His last
yerds were; " Oh, father hear il DOw-nOw mother
"is coming-rhe got the letter Oh what blessing to
poor folks is cheap postage Mother mother, did
want TO see you bad" Poor father he never told
him that The postmaster would not put the letter in
tie mail If be had, the poor boy would have died
with bitter curse instead Of blessing his fevered
lps against a system clogged with rules aud reZu
cations that the father Of dying boy could send
letter upon which the postage was paid, TO te the
mother 70 hasten home get tie las, Kiss, perhaps
by her PRESENCE save that precious life.
We know our readers already Indignant at this
a. they think overdfawn picture. IL s not Here
is case ia point. 4 letter s this momen. received
from sick friend st Stamford. IC was written and
deposited il the postoffce On Sunday Stamford is
ninety minutes from New York and the place where IL
was to be delivered is thirty minutes walk from the
post.ofice At II O'Clock on Tuesday the letter
motine its recipient to meet sick friend Mon
dav evening is deyered-tweny-seve hours longer
than it would take passenger 70 perform the same
Journey But to TO the SICK boy and his greyed
mother. why could nor Squire Spriggngs mail the
"letter, asks many mother.
because the law requires him to Write Soriggingss
"Cross roads July 18th the leer, and deisce the
stamp. before be puts it in tie mail bags. "Is that
"aI2" Oh no he must take little piece Of pa
per called postbl and ill up the blanks after the
words "letters sent from" b. writing Sprggngsyle,
O.. July 18th, 1853, to-the "to" is printed that is
q saylpg-to Bedcnsyille, and then make tgo figures
under proper beads TO show that one letter accom-
pan es the BILL and also that other and very impora
piece Of information 70 Squire BedeD and through
him the Port Office Department az Washington, that
the AFORESAID letter which was rather, if the POST
master had had time, would have Oeen mailed the
said SgrgeDgsvle, the l2,h Of July, 4. ID. 1853,
was "Tre paid by stsmps' Then Squire Sprggngs
adjusts his spectacles aud performs the yery solemn
duty, required by Law, of signing bis name-Jerelniah
S. p B. SprigeiDes, 81. (tbe p VI. is printei-that
saves uk) the post bill. NON he gets dosu his
account Of mails SENT and after Il While inds the
right place. and enters under proper head the date
July 18th, 1853, TO BededsSille, letter cents
prepaid by Stamps. Now be huns about for piece
Of paper TO wrap around the letter ard post b upon
the outside Of which be must Vri-- again the word
BcldGsvilc Now he wants stGing. sally, where
"the deuce is my post.olice tsine gone ?" " Don.
"fnow, fatler, guess Tom Las got j. Tor hte string
here is piece Of wooden yarn, viii thar do i"
"Yes; plague take il no. It is too shors D. hlut
round AID GET M some hng-Wneres tie cd ~
" man P" " Here, father what do you want "a
"sungl Run up to the loom, Sally, aud g.. some
"thrums."
at cpftb, with tie help Of The Old Woman aud Sally
Squire SprqeDgs gets the letter ready for the mail bag
Blast it," Gays be- there now didn't Try il 20 see Il
cit over weight" So he bas 10 open the package
to weigh the letter, which being all right he proceeds
to tie il up more. Now the sTiog is TO short
again, and the puppy has away With the bunch Of
"ttruns the cd woman is ont Of the way, aud
Sally has gone to the barn u hunt eggs AMI the old
Squire has wsdde up stairs TO the loom 70 get an
other string II clerical duties about this three
cent prepaid letter are lot ye- ended He has 20
transcribe the account, AMI send r Washington, 20
salary Of 81 300 year who nigh ii he ever examined
which he will not become cognzant Of the fac- that
the day Of July, 1853 Jeremiah 5 P b. Spriggings
Esquire, Postmaster at Sprggings Cross K ads ia the
County Of Odenheimer and State Of Ohio for 30 r. is
all written down in the Transcript of mails seur" aid
send letter to Btldenvne in the same County aad
State the postage Hpon which vas three cents, which
postage was IRE paid by stamp which Of course the
Post-Ofice Department must ar some time have
s'd and realized the money for But this is not al the
cerial labor about this three-ceut letter. Squire
Belden has to make the sort Of an entry 10 bis
account Of mails received AMI file away tie post
BILL ard al tie end Of the current .uarer make trans
Crypt Of his account and send II and the po5tb "a,
Washington to make work tor another political pos.
Office clerk II the letter should be taken olt f.
has 10 be transmitted with pos--oce biz setting forth
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