The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-11-09
Adaps rxure.s company Agency.


natl, has BEEN forwarded US. with a letter
from the business manager of a prominent
Cincinnati daily paper, asking the publication
of the former letter as favor to himself This
was altogether unnecessary. We publish the
Superintendents letter freely:
OFFICE OF ADAMS EXPRESS CoMPANY.l
CINCINNATI, Nov. 3, 1855
A. H. SANDERS, ESQ:
Dear Sir:-PerceiTiIfe BY the terms of
your editorial of yesterday morning that you
are not advised in regard to the motive that
induced the change in our agency at Evans
vile, and as you have thought the matter of
sufficient public interest to allude to it edito-
rally, | ask leave to explain that we have
hired a gentleman who will give the whole of
his time to our business, and placed him at Ev
ansville in the hope and belief that he can and
will use greater efforts in our behalf than
could be expected from persons having another
business of more importance and evolving
greater results to them than our agency. In
doing this, we have taken particular pains to
inform Messrs. Conyngton & Co., of our mo-
tives, as also our entire satisfaction with their
conduct of our business while in their hands.
In doing what we have done, it has been with
view to the interest of ourselves and the pub
lie solely. and without the least suspicion in
our minds that our action would involve any
injustice towards Messrs. C. & Co. The ref
erence to letter written within the last few
days, by myself to these gentlemen, is calcula-
ted to misead and deceive. If Messrs. Con-
vngton & Co., feel themselves sufficiently ag-
grieyed to appeal to the public, | am perfectly
content to rest my defence on that letter, SOLE
ly. Having allowed public reference to it,
will they have the candor to publish it entire?
Soliciting your pardon for intruding on your
time ir matter of such small importance,
1 am Yours respectfully
ALBERT GATHER, Sup't.
Now the facts of the ease are briefly these.
Without any warning, Messrs. Conyngton &
Co., who as agents of the Company had faith
fully discharged their duty, and were high in
the confidence of those Of our citizens Who did
business through the Express Co., were sud-
denly dismissed fem the office to make room
for stranger. They wrote to the Superin-
tendcnt at Cincinnati for an explanation, and
stated in their letter, that it was their inten-
ton to divide off a room for the exclusive bust
ness Of the Express Company, and one of the
firm would make the Company's business his
entire duty. In reply, Mr.. Gather wrote the
following letter, which we publish as per his
request:
OFFICE OF ADAMS EXPRESS CoMPANY.)
CINcINNAT1, Oct. %, 1861
MEssRs. 7. CoNYNGToN & Co., AGENTS.
Geademea:-I have your favor in re-
gard to our Agency now in your hands. In
reply thereto | would state that in making an
exclusive Agency at your city, we have had
it in view to disconnect it from all other inter-
ests save those relating to our own Lines.
have no reason to suppose that with the limit
ed salary we can pay for services we could in
duce any person engaged in a regular business
to make our interests primary considera-
ton over those personal to himself
A reference to the business from your city
by our Express, during the past twelve months
will show what compensation of 500 per
annum will command, under the same auspi-
ces with an increase of pay to $500, the sum
we propose to pay hereafter, and proportion
ate increase Of business, it will not have reach
ed the amount we think ought to be done
from Evansville Do not understand me as
complaining of anything in connection with
your Agency under our present arrangement
for | am perfectly satisfied in regard thereto
and my allusion to it was only as an illustra-
ton.
While making this acknowledgment Unjust
be permitted to express my surprise at learn
ing that you have recently thought proper to
take ground antagonistic to our success in
your city, in the future. Presuming that you
are actuated by honorable motives in so doing,
we have no complaint to make in this regard.
Yours respectfully,
ALBERT GATHER, Sup'dt.
In noticing this removal and letter, we said
these agents had done all the pioneer work for
mere nominal salary, had given satisfaction
to all who had done business through the agen-
Cyl that they had the full confidence and ac-
quaintance of this community, and their dis
missal now when the office was just going to
be worth something did not give satisfaction
here. We also said: "the charge made Incl
Cincinnati (the letter above) that the agents
here had been seeking to i'gure the business of
the Company lately, is not only entirely gra-
tuitous, bat, as we are informed, entirely
false" We are authorized to say by Messrs.
Conyngton & Co., that they have not taken
grounds antagonistic to the Company. Mr.. G.
owes it to himself, as well as to the former
agents here, to state from whom he obtained
his information of this conduct on the part of
these agents. But we do not regard this as a
legitimate subject of public controversy. This
public has an interest in the agency of the Ex-
press Co., here, just SO far as we gave express
ion to their interest in the first editorial on the