Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-08
Eft aIways has seemed arrange to

rs, that newspapers, asking ADMISSION
into respectable eiccles, and thereto
claiming to b. upright and just in al
things, odd SO far degrade their posi-
tiea as to be gagged into the support o
some rotten imposition, or gross dere
LECTION of duty. But when we recollec
that large proportion of the press il
the West is either controlled by person,
who Eeretoo lazy to acquire living al
their legitimate calling, and as, what
they supposed to be an easy change,
perched themselves in the editorial chair
of some little obscure village paper, OF
by half-Hedged journeymen printers,
who could not maintain situation in a
respectable printing Office; it is not so
strange after all. Just such minds
could SELL themselves into the support
of satan himself, and glory in the con-
temptibility of the act. We have sew
eral just such concerns in view at this
time; but none of them sink into such
utter insigni6cance as does the Jackson
Standard. Governed as it is, by one
Mathews, small outside s'tanner and
currier," whose gEatest field of use
fulness would be in taking hides son
The shares" but who by-the-bye, got
his own hide tanned so often that he got
sick at the sight of c0lfskins and quit
the business, not much could be expec-
ted. But if his partner is other than a
mere cipher he should exercise some
little weight in saving the credit of the
paper. We well recollect when Mr..
Laird's brother pitched into contractor
French worse than anything we ever
dreamed of-eyen TO such an extent
that French collared him in the street,
and only was prevented from chastising
him on account of his diminutiyeness.
The matter was remedied for the time.
but soon went back to the old Standard.
I However, as the affair grew worse, the
Standard grew more complacent, and
soon was in perfect ecstacies with the
"gentlemaniy contractor" and his su-
perbly conducted mail route. What in
fuence has been brought to bear to
work this change? 1t does not take
Bible cstechism to show that money is
at the bottom Of it, and that the whole
concern is as rotten as their acts are
detestible.
We had Lot Intended saying anything
IN regardao the ':.U. S. Mail Line, !" this
week, but three or four friends at our
elbow have just given us history of
their trip from Gbiilicothe on Saturday
and Sunday last; and as it explains the l
whole matter, we will mention in SUBJ t
stance what they viii substantiate in de- '
tail. Two of them who were in haste i
to reach sick families, called at the stage c
office and desired to know how sooni
they could be put through to Gallipolis, +
stating that if they could not be by Sat-
lrdasy night, they would hire private q
conveyance. The agent assured them D
.het they would be surely landed there Il
~ the time they specified, and so took o
heir fare, knowing that he was making = :,
false promise, for he had told the
'ther two that they could not reach
lere until Monday. They started at +,
laif-past five o'clock in the morning, n
''He persons in all, baggage, mail bags, a
'tc., in an old road lUggon, with but taoo I,
Ipologies for horses, and drunken dri- 6,
7er. After sundry breaks and mishaps I,
the road was in excel II
ent travelling condition, they reached +
ackson at half-past three in the after
loon-haying occupied ten hours in ma
ing 2s miles. At Jackson they had a
o remain until the next morning, when ST
y threats of the two taken-in individ- r
ials, French was induced to send them e'
n to this place, where they arrived at Ia
x o'clock in the evening A colored ca
ian named Mason started from Jack A
'n after the wagon left, and-was ahead re
! i at Rodney, and only a half mile lit
ehind when it reached Chickamoga ma
ridge, having walked the entire dis ye
nee in the same time the mail made it. ca
he thing speaks for itself, everything eli
'nnected with it is inefficient, and it is an
q outrage that it is tolerated. a
RWe think it about time for the
lends Of Improvement" to be select y -
g candidates to fill the places of our 70, m
ID fogy Trustees. The election takes of
lace on the ed day of April, and the
me is short. We must have an omen
ee fght-no skulking, and if it is the m'
i'll of the majority that onr 60 ad