The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-11-13

agaln& our Foreign encmAcc
This, or something very like it, we understand
is the plan of Jefferson Davis for securing Kan
cas- and Cuba, and for consolidating, at the same
time, the democratic party upon sure footing,
North and South. We apprehend, however, that
this plan smells little too strong of gunpowder
for the nerves of Mr.. Buchanan; and it is our
serious opinion that he will set out upon a
foreign and domestic policy SO very pacific and
conclistory as to disgust the Southern nulliders
and drive them of into little fussy outside fac
ton before single year Of the new administra-
ton and perhaps before q single month Of it
shall have expired. We await the issue.
The New CRY Posi- OFrcE.-Now the election
Is fairly over, may hope to see the question Of
our Post Office location decided. The exact po-
stion, among number of good sites proposed, is
of less consequence than the building Of . good
and capacious Office when the location is fixed.
We are too apt to do our business for day, and
| then finding our mistake, we are compelled to do
| it all over again or suffer the penalty Of our
| folly.
When our City Hall was built, it was no doubt
considered of ample size for at least hundred
years to come; but separate buildings court
rooms, record Offices and clerks quarters have
| been purchased, leased and erected all over the
upper end of the Park and in other parts Of the
CITY, This is great inconvenience, but it is no
! thing compared to that Of Post Once which is
too small The postal business must be concen-
trated in one building, for the purpose of recev-
ing, sorting and despatching the mails; and this
| is the case whether there are . hundred sub
Offices or not, and whether the postal circle has
radius of one mile or ten. The Brick Church site,
which certain charitable speculators-the charity
beginning at home-wish to sell to the govern
ment is entirely inadequate to the purpose, as a
! little examination must show. The locality is
good enough, but it is entirely too small, besides
being of an inconvenient shape. 1t is pretty
nearly triangle, the Beekman street front being
IA feet, and the opposite end only SO feet giving
an area of less than $4,000 square feet. There
is no branch of public business that in
creases as fast as correspondence by post,
| and we have long suffered great in
convenience, with serious loss of time and
money to every business interest, from the imper-
lection of our postal arrangements 1t is suscep
tible Of the cleares demonstration that if erected
today, Post Office on that site, or any other of
equal size, would be altogether too small for the
purpose. The longest front is 1913 feet, and the
shortest l59, with an area of 1880 square feet
New York contains $4,000 inhabitants, while
nearly 200,0 900 more who do business here reside
or sleep in the adjoining places of Brooklyn,
Williamsburg Jersey City and Hoboken To all
intents and purposes the postal accommodations
required in New York are for population that
numbers little short of million, and before the
building can be finished the number will be nearly
100000. That there is no exaggeration in this
| estimate will be seen from comparison OF the
population Of London, Paris, and New York at
hree different periods
London. ..............e68 1893 1864 0o4 $500 900
pMn; :................oooeo GOO $4,000 l,o!S, eco
The population Of Paris doubles in about sixty
years, that Of Londan In forty, aud that Of New
York an s-v.aty Tho PootAl accommodations or
London are inadequate to the wants of the Lon
doners though John Bull usually displays won
derful sagacity in making calculations for the fu-
ture. The London Post Office has front of 400
| feet, by $50 feet deep-an area of some $4,000
square feet-being almost three times the size of
| the Brick Church lot. The number Of persons ac-
commodated in this immense building according
to the English Post Office report, is about $500.
OF these less than 800 are attached to the General
Post Office, while nearly an equal number OF
other clerks are located in another building. The
number Of persons engaged at one time in making
| up the London evening mail is about one thou
sand, and so scant is the room that large num-
bers work in the upper stories, and steam en-
| CINE is constantly at work In transporting mail
or other matter from one part Of the building to
| another. Besides the business In the principal
Office, there are nearly five hundred other Offices =
branch Post Offices and receiving houses
tered throughout the city and suburbs, by means
Of which vast deal Of work Is diverted to other
localities Can any one in his senses believe III Z
building stuck on the little triangular balk nec
the Park and one that win scarcely afford work.
| ing room for two hundred persons, will suffice
| for the postal wants Of this great and growing
city,
When new Post Office was required for the
city Of Glasgow, much anxiety was felt as 70 10
| location, and in reply to communication TO the
Lords Of the Treasury, Sir Francis Barring re-
piled =" With reference to the particular build
ing which should be purchased, there Is not sutfi-
cient information o. yet for a just decision. AS
to the convenience Of the situation, the opinion
| Of the inhabitants and OF the commercial bodies
would have the greatest weight; but the fitness of
the interior &c, will require further
| investigation"
| So in our case II is matter for the conve.
nience of a commercial population, which some
day viii outnumber that Of any other city in the
world and not a mere speculation for two or
three property holders II Post Office IL built
on ground where IL can be enlarged by purchas.
Ing other property and extending the building,