New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-11

The EDITOR Of The C<,eland Paiqdeaer has made himself
uo,oou, by hi. aborye attempts prevent the delivery Of
The TRIBUNE the Western Postoihce, v T. Tribune
This is specimen of the truthfuness of THE TRIB
rsE Mr. Gray is Postmaster and publisher, and ne
refuses himself and advises others to refuse to act as
agents for The TRIBUNE He delivers every paper to
its address punctually There has been charge to
the contrary But be refuses TO act clerk agent
for The TRIBUNE publishers, by directing their papers
for them when sent in bundles. Wesuppose he would
refuse in like manner to collect the accounts of The
TRIBUNE or furnish il with news-and yet such service
could properly be eIacted from hun as the labor OF
directing The TRIBUNE weekles.
1t is a specimen of the honesty of The TRIBUNE
that It makes such charge lAoany Atlas'
If we were to be deferred BY rudenes, and
insult from noticing attacks on us by the journal
above quoted we should be obliged to rest under
many imputatiOns that have no warrant in truth or
Justice. Generally, We bear these calumnes i'll
silence, but sometimes we repel them as now.
!. We are not aware that the Editor Postmaster
Of Cleveland ever refused to distribute to our sub
scrbers package of TRIpUNEs addressed to his
Office; be may have done without the fact
becoming known to US; but, if so, it is an
exercise Of power of which we have made no con-
plant and now make none. Every Postmaster is
a proper Judge as to the extent to which he shall
accommodate his neigbbors and customers; our
complaint against the Cleveland man is not that he
refused to deliver papers in any case. but that
be has for months labored assiduousy to embarrass
and obstruct their delivery BY others. For this
intermeddling with matters wholly out of his
proyince-this superseryiceabe zeal in instructing
other stipendiaries of the great Circumlocutlon
Office How Not to Do tive can find no warrant
in law or equity.
2. Where hundred or more of each issue of
newspaper are sent regularly to Post Office, we
hold it a positive disadvantage and source of need
less labor to the Postmaster to have the subscribers
names written thereon. This involves the necessity
of looking through the pile, often from top TO bot
tom, to find the copy specially addressed 10 the
particular subscriber now inquirlng; whereas, in
the other case, the paper nearest to hand is dealt
out, and till all served In nine out of
ten where the list is large, it is disadvantage and
nuisance to the Postmaster to have the subscribers
names written on the papers at the publications
Office. Still, Democratic offceholder may have a
constitutional right to make hog Of himself there
being nothing in "the Resolutions of % that ex-
pres.y forbids il. We make no complaint, there
fore, of any Postmaster who, of his own voltion,
gives our subscribers fair notice that he declines to
deliver their papers unless individually directed.
He has legal right to do this, and We submit with
out complaint; yet, if he does it to CRAFTY party
spite or in obedience to party dictum, we have
our own opinion of the act and the man. But,
during the past Winter under the impulse given
from Cleveland, Postmasters who had for months
delivered over a hundred TRIBUNES weekly with
out complaint, have stopped short, refusing to de-
liver Il copy, and let papers accumulate for
weeks in their Offices, in defiance of the earnest en-
treaties Of those to whom they were known to be-
long. In one instance, our subscribers held q meet
ing. chose person to whom the package should be
delivered, and formally requested the Postmaster to
let them go: but no he would not surrender one
copy till an express order from the publishers
should be received, instructng him to whom the
papers should be handed oyer-though nobody on
earth knew better than he did all the time. Per-
haps this is making fair use of political adyan-
tsge; but if our side were in power, The AtLaS
would not think so.
g. We trust our club subscribers are everywhere
preparing to distribute their own papers or choose
one Of their number who is to do it. Let them in
every case name to us some good Republican,
whose store or shop is near the Post-Offce, to
whom We may direct the package and let him take
il immediately on its arrival and distribute it ac-
cording 10 the list Of names retained by him. We
doubt the necessity proprety of writing the sub
scribers names at all Better have cheap case OF
pigeon-hoes constructed with subscribers name
over each pigeon-hole and place his paper therein
so soon as received to be held subject to his order.
4. THE TRIBUNE has no accounts" with sub
scribers TO be collected and neither asks nor ex-
poets its enemies to act as its agents Where Post
masters are in the habit of receiving money from
subscribers and forwarding it to publishers land
We know that many do this, without considering
what publisher is thus favored, for the sake of diff.
fsing intelligence We should desire to be treated
like our rivals but if this is not TO be- We must try
to get on without it. This journal has survived
more formidable crusades than that of the Post.
masters, and will doubtless survive this one. We
only ask those who studying and striving 10
duce our circulation not to bubble and wrggle about
the matter, but have the courage TO ayow what
they have not the virtue TO leave undone.
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The Rome Sentinel, abiding to a remark by
Virginia paper that there is no monument to mark