Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-05-23
A DAILY MAIL.

A daily mail to st. Paul is one of the most i'm
portant topics which should at present ongross
our attention, and no efforts should be wanting
on our part to let the Postmaster General know
that we are no longer to be triaed with and set
aside of no consequence. Here we are, teem-
ing with population Of 5000 souls from all parts
of the eountry--all having friends and some BUSH
ness in the various sections of our Union, anx-
iously waiting, praying, hoping for mail-a
mail that will bring some tdings of slowed ones
at homc,' or important business transactions, AMI
vet the Postmaster General quietly thrusts his
hands into his pockets and notes on his books, ''of
no Consequences ''Wc cant afford 1t ~ We'll,
perhaps we are of mo consequences" but when
we become State, and Mr.. Campbell is anxious
to obtain an Office tn ough the gift of the people,
he will find That that organ en- play different
tune, ana that if he could not afford to give us
our Just deserts at that period, we in turn can at
ford to give him his just deserts then.
But why is it that We can't have daily mail:
Is the plea of cant afford it, valid? Let see.
The Galena and Minnesota Packet Company, Gas
We learn from the Adye. tiscr of the former
place) now carry the mail to ST. Paul for fifty
ty dollars the round trip, and they offer to carry
it six times per week for the same pro rata pay,
which is probably the cheapest mail service in the
United States; andyct over two hundred thous md
persons, including those of own Territory ans
city, arc prevented from receiving Daily Mail or
the miserable, contemplate, outrageous, unhear,
of plea that it would cost the Department ont
hundred and fifty dollars per week additional
IL this isn't killing the musquiO to get his oil
then we don't know what is. Poor PostOflce De
partmcnt! Too poor to pay $500 per year ex
TIA to benefit two hundred thousand people, thu
revenue from whose letters would more than cOun
tcrbalancc the amount expended by five times =
The course pursued by the Postmaster Gene
raj is neither manly nor magnanimOus, and ht
will find that there is such thing being ''a
penny wise and pound foolish" as well as thai
it is far better TO do right than to skulk behind a
tree to shoot political foe, or crafty an over
wecning, disgusting spirit of retaliation.
We must have more mails AMI Daily Nails
The business of our territory and the rapid influx
Of strangers demand it Justice accords it and
Right urges it. VIII the PostOffice Department
listen to these appeals, or will it, as it has for
ton of an outraged people shall pour upon its
head walls of wrath! We shall see.
The Galcna Advertiser abiding to the matter,
says
SIT appears that the Postofice Department is
no LONGER welded for the public good, but as a
means Of gratifying fav"ritc Democratic interests,
and pandcring to private and local resentments.
The removal Of the Distributing PostOficc to Du-
bu1c, which has dcrangcd the whole mail service
of this part of the country, is proof of this. Po-
ltical and local grudges now to be ''fcd fat''
by Furnishing the Minnesota people for not doing
their business at Dubuque, and the Postmaster
General refuses to give them a mail but three
times week. We think the people of Minnesota
will understand this"
The Advertiser thinks right. ''The people of
Minnesota are TOO intelligent to be any longer
humbuggcd, and when Mr.. Campbell makes his
visit among them Gas we learn he intends toy he
will find sufficient to warrant him in taking the
back track, and giving them, if not regular
at least an irregular daily mail.