New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-19
POsT-OFFICE ABUSES.


BY his recent card "to the public, denying in
general terms the truth of the charges brought
against the Department by The Rockville Gazette.
He would have done better to hold his peace
and 90 TO work to correct the abuses CON-
planned of. Almost everybody has suffered more
or less from the carelessness, incompetency or
dishonesty of the Post Officials, and the ex-
posures which have recently been made are
bringing out the facts.
The Gazette has commenced the task of making
good its statements 1t will be recOllected that
one of the specifications in its article was this
"a lot of paper from the Hartford Post Office con-
tained among Others letter mailed az Plttsheld,
Mass directed TO hfm III iertiOru winch contained
a check for $50"
In proof of this assertion The Gazette submits
the following statement. duly attested by the
oath of Mr.. Talcott, the proprietor of the paper
mill at which the money is alleged to have been
found:
81 saw letter which think was mailed at Pitts
field Mass. inclosing check for thirty dollars d.
RI cted 10 firm at Hartford, which was said by per-
sons il my employ to have been found ch6 asserting
7rasfe paItr recerod from The PostOGoe al Hartford,
which paper was assorted in the room with other
waste paper. The said check was forwarded to the
firm TO whom it was addressed.
Mr.. Frank W. Perry also makes ali layit to
the fact, as follows:
"Ths is to certify that whereas certain charges
against various officers OF the T. q. Department have
Ieon published in The TOL0nd County Gasette,
bv which the Postmaster at Hartford is implicated
IN having sold certain quantities Of waste paper to
paper manufacturers in Vernon, among which was
found a letter mailed ut Psfield, Mass, and directed
TO q firm in Hartford, containing a check for money
10 the amount of thirty dollars which letter with Its
Ioa bcau for ed nv he
the Fl, m in Hartford TO whom it was direced-anf
which charges have been denied by the Postmaster az
Hartiord-and in relation TO which would say that
called on the manufacturer aud learned that the letter
fins found was mailed at Pittsfeld the 18th day Of
November 1854, and directed TO Way & Brother,
Uauford-and that said letter coming into his pos
session had been remailed 10 them.
sOn tie sumo day called at the store Of Way
Broher in Hartford and there learned from those who
were cognizant of the facts that they did receive
letter on The Goth of February, 1855, from Reed Co..
Pitised Mass dated at that place on the 18th day OF
November, 1854, containing the amount OF money
above stated. which Reed & Co. RENTED TO them in
settlement of their accounts, &c. That said letter was
mailed at Pitsfed and directed to Hartford, bearing
the PostOfice stamp but that they did not receive
sand letter until the goth of February following when
it was forwarded to them by some one it having been
remaed at New York which said letter is now In the
possession of Way & Brother Hartford, and answers
in every particular to the description OF me one SAID
to have been found by Samuel Tacott while asserting
his parer purchased al the Hartford Post-Ohce for
waste par err and was forwarded to Way & Brother by
y Tudor 1alcott, then agent for the paper manuac-
turing company at Vernon.
So much with regard to the Pittsfed letter
In reference to its other statements, The Gazette
saws: ave wish to be distinctly understood
"when we declare that we have on our table,
"ready to be used when occasion shall require,
ga pile of afidayits made by responsible men
"men of unquestionabe veracity, and of the
"highest standing in this community, who, I'M
"der oath make sufficient disclosures to justify
"what we have said-and when a proper occa-
"sion and time shall demand their publication
"they will be forthcoming"
But the Rockville paper mill is not the only
establishment Of that sort at which valuable let
tiers have turned up. They have a mandatory
up in Saratoga County which receives some of
this waste paper in which precious docu-
ments are now and then discovered. We copy
the fol flowing from an article on post O flee
..Matters," in The Syracuse Chronicle of June 8:
son the 9Th Of March last package was made up
at The Onondsga County Bank in this city and for
| warded to the American Exchange Bank in the City
| of Now-York through the PosOtiice. 1t contained
draft for Ses 90 another for $780, another for 500 49,
/ ard an acceptance of 81 600. The package did not
arrive at the time expected, and the officers of the
Bank, after due inquiry wrote TO the New-IQrk Post
master twice in REGARD Il, Sl that function
| ory did rot even degn 10 answer the letters. The
drafts were made good and the matter was set down
10 lroft and oss and almost forgotten, when note
cosing the drafts was received from the Rock City
Paper Mills in Saratoga County. The letter was de-
sroyed but the drafts were preserved by mere acct
dent The note containing them was dated May %,
aid stated that tie letter came in a mass Of other
| terials from Buchanan x Parsons, No. 10 Beekman-
ST. who received il among refuse papers, wrappers,
| &C. from the New York City Post-Ofice.'
A late Clerk in the Boston Post-Otfice writes
us that about four years since he was requested
by the Chief Clerk in that Office to examine the
waste paper in the cellar of the Office to see il
any missing letters could be found there. The
result of the examination was the bringing to
light of from eighteen to twenty-five letters, sew
eral of which were addressed to some Of the
f! heaviest houses in the city.
There are other complaints Of q different
character, of which we subjoin sample; A
gentleman residing in this City, few days since
wrote letter and directed it to friend 10 the
country-put stamp on it, and sent it to the
Pos. Office. In few hours it was returned to
him. enclosed in wrapper, with note from the