The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-08-18
THEGAZETTEv VS.. THE POSTMASTER.


From some remarks in last weeks Gazeits,
we presume our neighbor is angry with Mr.. |
Ddrrah, the postmaster at this place. Now |
one would naturally suppose that ice would
consider it family quarrel, and remain per-
fectly Indifferent as to the result But we
are not intending to do any such thing. We
will array ourseif on the side of friend Dar-
rah and hope to save bin from his friends(D.
Not bu, that Mr.. D. is large enough to take
his own part, but just because we like to see
justice done man, be heour friend or enemy
At the time of the apparent neglect which
Mr. Gressin9er speaks of, we had equal
ground for complaint with him, and we had
seriously contemplated giving the postmaster
a "puf" gratis But upon taking second
thought, Of the matter we called at the p. 0.
and received the following explanation which
was perfectly satisfactory:--On Thursday
afternoon we placed our southern mail mat
ter in the customary saddle bags as did also
the Editor of the Gazette, Our papers both
together completely fill the bag. Afterwards
the mail from the Republican Office was
brought in, and Mr.. Darrah, desrous OF ac-
commodi itng all parties, procured a large bag
and put the whole of the three mails in it
I'm The morning when the mail carrier come
for his ,.,pad, seeing II very large bag in place
Z A. IN IN ha
was unable to curry it, and emPtying it upon
the floor, he filled tn G smaller bag from the
pile. As matter of course, some of our
papers, as well as some of the Ga'etts and
Republican were left. We regretted the
delay, but with the explanation we were per-
iectly satisfied, and thought no blame attl'
ed to Mr.. Darrah, and we think SO yet.
He says he made similar explanation to
Mr.. Gressinger, which, we doubt not, is true.
II he did, as he says, explain to the Editor
of the Gazeiie, the latter either insunder-
stood him or is making use of the present
imaginary neglect to lash him for some other
iautihess. What can have prompted the at.
tack Mr.. Darrah probably knows--not being
in the family secrets of the Democracy we,
Of course, do not.
We make this statement unsolicited by Mr.. |
DarrGh or any of his friends, merely because
we think he should have a "fair shake" We
have ever found him, in his official capacity,
very accommodating, and ever desirous Of
doing his duty so far as he is able Being of
different political faith we never asked nor
expected tapors at his hands, yet we are free
to say that we have never yet been cognizant
OF solitary instance where he was ,oilfu,iy
guilty Of the slightest malfeasance in office.
We can show our neighbor places where
neglect Of duty on the part of postmss,ers is
Tar from being as imaginary as II is here. -
We wish that all officials tried as faithfully as
friend WMiam to discharge their duty. We
are told to apply to p. NJ. General Campbell
for redress, but it is perfectly useless, for he
is too busy assisting Archbishop Hughes to
secure the Catholic vote to the Demo mocracy--
he merely turns to the petitioner with a
sanctmonious air--counts his rosary once
again--mutters patsr noster, and -
that's all.