The true Democrat., 1855-09-18
To tine Subscribers of the Gazette and
 Democrat.

Democrat.
 The following you will find in the United States post-office regulations, chapter 17, sec tion 122:
 "Post masters are not bound to receive from the city, town or village where the post-otfice is kept, and deliver them to subscribers calling at their office for them. The right to circulate in the mail, within the county where published does not impose on post-masters the duty of receiving and delivering papers which do not go in the mai.''
 As the editors of the Gazette and Democrat make public complaint, on your account that their papers are not delivered to you when ap- piled for at the postoffice, and as there are of ten enquiries made by tEose for whom there have been no papers sent to the office, 1 think it better for both you and myself, that I make use of the privilege granted by the department, and request in future you will call for your pa pers at the office of the Gazette and Democrat, where you have right to demand them when wanted.
 To those at a distance, I will observe, that
 
 it is possible your papers may have been de- layed by mistakes made in my office There is not an office in the Union free from such mis- takes; but that any one paper has been know ingly or Intentionally detained longer than the departure of the mail in which it should go, is entirely untrue. If they are delayed at all, it is not in my office, and l am not responsible for errors committed out of it.
 That they are often delayed, however, is be- yond doubt, and 1 will explain one instance of the many in which I am able to prove it oc- CUTS. The following packages, containing the very publication in which they complain of me, was received at my office at half past II o'clock on Friday morning, Sept. 14th to be sent through the eastern mail to White river, which left, as required in the schedule, at 6 o'clock the same morning (being five and half hours after the mail had lefD: For Mt. Vernon, l package; Languille, l; Cages Point, l; St. Francis l; Wittsburg l; Greensboro via St. Francis, l; Taylor's Creek l; Bolivar, l; Farm Hill, l; Planters l.
 At the same time, for the northern mail which left also early the same morning, I re- ceived the following:-For Smithville, 2 pack ages; Searcy, l; Jacksonport ?; Augusta, l; Cold Well, l; Westport, l Pocahontas, 1 Stony Point, l; Jackson l; Elizabeth, l; Clo- yer Bend l; Powhatan, l; Old Ridge, l; Wal. colt, l.
 The above 1 think about one half they send by each mail; the rest, not mentioned, were deposited in my office on Thursday, the night before, in ample time to be sent by both the mails which left ill the morning.
 have several times complained of this very unfair practice, which, without public expa- nation, casts the blame of delay upol4 me, anG each time received assurance from one of the editors that 1t should be corrected but the evi seems to increase with the desire to complain.
 When agreed to accept the appointment o post master, it was told me- though not a po lltical man, would have to withstand the at tacks of the Gazette. There is no kind feel ing existing between one of the editors anc mysef-there never has been-but this is ; pitiful mode of warfare, and if they can inurc me, or themselves profit by it, I shall be very much surprised.
 JNO. F. REARDON, P. M.,
 Little Roch Ark.