Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-13
WASHINGTON NEWS And GOSSIP.

Gratuitous and Upfoundsd Abuse 1t
seems to us that one half the capital on which
more or less papers trade, is abuse of the
Post Office Department. A break down in
their press-rooms, a complaint Of subscriber,
or the loss of a dollar alleged to have been
mailed to them, is enough to start them on
this favorite key, according to their philosophy.
The department is at least every body's dog, to
the extent of being obliged not only to serve
every body at very low rates indeed bat also
to the point Of perpetually standing ready to
be kicked when anything imaginable disturbs
the souauimity Of anybody. Had it been the
Post Office Department whose arrangements
between this and New Orleans proved SO slow
as to have heen, say seven days, in bringing
tie account of the refusal of the grand jury at
the latter city to bring in bills of indictment
against Messrs. Blair and Whitman as noticed
by as day or two since, instead of the teie-
graph line, half the newspapers of the country
would have republished the fact as evidence of
the utter inefiiciency of our present postal
arrangements between the scat of GOyernm
and the southern commercial emporium.
Folks have foolish habit of comparing the
apparent working of the English postal system
and ours; taking the former-ope, ating
over ssmall territory, thickiy populated, where
labor is cheap, with the latter operating over
an immense surface Of space covered with a
very sparce population, where labor is much
dearer. Now, if they would but like sensible
souls, form their comparison Of the services
rendered for the money paid for those servi-
ces, upon the number Of miles actually
travelled, the weight of mail matter carried,
and the difference in the means of mail trans
portation incident to the real condition Of the
travelling facilities in all parts Of the two
countries, they would have sound and reliable
data on which to arrive al sensible business.
like conclusions with reference to the manner
in which the Post Office Departments affairs
are conducted IN this country.
1t may ssartle folks who do not closely scan
all the elements of the rapid industrial p-o-
gress of our country, to learn that the busin ess
Of our Post Office Department is at this me-
msnt immensely larger-by perhaps third
than on the 4th of March, 1853 In no 9th
point has American progress ever so developed
itself, az in the demands on the capabilities Of
the postal branch of THE Government in the
lest thirty mOnths. Never before lowing to
the extraordinary great cost Of living now
ruling throughout the country were the en-
ployees Of the Department, necessarily, so
meageriy compensated, or any thing like go
hard worked. Its mails may make five thous
and trips to schedule time, but if the next be !
IN hour behind time, through fire, food, or |
some where on line thous.
and miles long, half the newspapers note the
TACT as evidence Of the ineficiency of tho De.
par!ment. If ten dollars are stolen from the
mails, for million going safely, as per address
IN them, all post ofhco employees are pla-
'arded by large portion of the press, as pick
pockets are posted at railroad depo,s Verify,
re are IN unreasonable people. John Bull
himself, though cons,itutionally and proven
Dially grumbliag old fool for at lsast two
centuries back, is already fairly outdone in
hat limo By his promising son Jon athan
Whenever one says to him" Post Office De-
the blood that's in his vein: then
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