Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1853-08-03

IHh Mk88xhG MONEY!.
! Why The Postmsstsr here. thought proper,
IN the columns Of bis paper Of last Saturday,
TO make an sttaek upon as, aad our state
ment Of fdcfs in relation to the missing mon
~" instead Of giving plain account Of the
matter, Is more than we are able to say In
justice 10 all, We copy below the entire arti-
Gle from the Republican, referred to as well
a. ours. Of which complaint is made. The
Republican says:
The Gssette Of this week unnecessarily
gives publicity to the loss Of some fourteen
or fifteen hundred dollars mailed at the Mar
tinsbarg Post Ofies on the 18th inst. for
Baltimore. More hope nigh. have been
entertained Of recovering the money, If it's
loss had been kept secret, as she Department
was 10 possession Of information Of It's loss,
and it 10 presumed was pursuing the proper
course to solve the mystery Of its disappear
aLcc. The notice of The Gazette NOT only
conveys the false Impression that there is no
distribution Of the malta on the Post Office
Car between this and Baltimore, but 10 liable
TO q most unwarrantabie construction 10 an.
other respect. AS a voluntary disclaimer
however. has been made by the editor, we
leave him to the choice Of The proper publ,
correction"
Hero is the statement Of the Gasct.e
"On this day two weeks ago, some FIVE or
six letters directed to Baltimore, we're put in
the Post Office in this place, by az many Of
our citizens, containing altogether about four
teen hundred dollars 10 money or drafts =
None Of these letters havs been received 10
Baltimore by the persons TO whom they we're
sent. We understand the Post Master In
Baltimore spys no package Of letters was re-
ceived there On that day from Martinsburg.
The packages Of letters made up here for
Baltimore pass through no Office between
here and their destination.
What has become Of the letters and tho
money yet remains mystery"
Now, in the FIRST place we did not "unne
cessarily giue publicity to the loss of the |
money. 1t was known, and publicly known.
long before noe said word about it; four |
teen days elapsed before We spoke of it; it |
was in the mouth and ear Of every one, pub
deity indeed But ii its loss had been
Kept secret" "more hope nigh. haze been
Of its recovery" We ask, why
was it not KEEP. secret Who divulged it?
We apprehend the parties, loosers, soon
learned their loss, and spoke Of it, and pub
cly too Did the Postmaster wish it KEEP.
'ccret9 We hope not, but it would seem so.
About the false Impression" and "unrar
-antable construction" which the Postmaster
says our notice conveys.-we bave nothing to
say, except that we designed only to give the
acts. briefly. the article is again with the
public, let it judge.
But we will say. that we did not intend to
ast The slightest reflection Of suspicion upon
be Post Office here, or upon any one, any
'here. We entertained 20 suspicious OF any
ind Our motto is, believe all innocent un
i they are proved guilty" We made no
of the facts, as we gave them.
nd all we said was strictly true, and cannot
Q denied. We might have said. had we {
nown the fact. which we did not, that the
postmaster here, and his Assistant, bad both
ertifed that the letters in question were put
, the package for Baltimore, and left this
flee 10 the mail bag We might have stated I
lrther, what we did know, and what we sup
osed every body else knew. that the mail bag
taken from this Office, short distance to
be r. Il. Cars. by a sworn officer, and by
ion put into the care Of another sworn officer,
, q car known as the "Mail Car" and by
bis officer or agent. the mails are opened aud
distributed, not to individuals, but the packa
,es are put in the Bags, intended for the pla
es to which the packages are directed This
ficer is no Postmaster, and this mai, car is
10 Post Office
a report was current for some days, that
he agen, on the train. on the day the money
vas lost, had said there was no package from
bis place for Baltimore on that day" and
ha. he bad called the attention of secret
agent" who happened to be on board at the
lime. to the fact. This same agent Informed
is that "be said no such thing" and did not
know whether there was such package or
not.
We hope we will not be misunderstood
FREDERICK FEMALE SEMINARY.