The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-09-01
Posi- OFFICE, Evansville, Ind, Aug. a 1851.

Posr orrIcr, Evansville, Ind, Aug. a 1857.
To tie Editor eftae journal:
In your issue of this moning find the
following extract from the Mount Vernon
Advocate. with the accompanying com
ments by you:
Our Posr OFFIcE.--Ths Mount Yer
non Advocate says:
There is a screw loose somewhere in the
Evansville Post Office. Our Post Master in
forms us that not week elapses without
some .faur pas being committed at that
office, some of which prove a source Of con-
siderable annoyance and vexation 10 the Of
fee here, and to our citizens, who either en-
tirely lose their mail matter, or have it de-
iayed till it is almost worthless.
Mr.. Rudd will, we are sure, apply the
remedy to this at once, if it be trde that
the fault is in our office.
The imputation against this office is
base SANDER. Every thing deposited in
the Post Office, by seven O'Clock in the
morning, for Mount Vernon. is mailed
regularly at that hour. The mail matter
sent here for separation is placed prompt
ly and carefully in the appropriate mail
bags and dispatched at the first depar-
ture OF the mails for the intended desti-
nation. There being a regular daily
mail to Mount Vernon, it never happens
that package Of any kind is detained
at this office over twenty -four hours, and
generally the detention here does not ex-
coed eight or ten hours. The attempt OF
the Mount Vernon Post Master to fix
the blame for the irregularity Of the de-
livery of his mail matter upon this office
is a miserable attempt to cover up his
own deficiencies, which, if known at
home, | am sure would not be tolerated
for single moment by the citizens Of Mt.
Vernon.
On several occasions errors have been
detected at our Office, committed by the
Mount Vernon Post Master, which pro-
we'd to be the source Of considerable an
noyanee to our citizens and persons with
whom they transacted business in Mount
Vernon. On one occasion a letter was
taken out Of this office containing fifty
dollars, which the person receiving, re
turned here for an explanation, the let
ter stating that another fifty dollars had
been sent previously, and the person to
whom it was addressed had never re-
ceived it. Diligent search was made
but the letter could not be found. Some
time afterwarJ the letter came in the
Mount Vernon Mail, 1t having been de.
tanned in that Office. THIS is not sin.
gle instance merely, for such Irregular
ties are Of common and frequent occur
renee. Only last week package ofletters
came back in the Mt. Vernon mail address
sed to that office, and was opened by my
assistant, Mr.. WhittleSy. Ii proved tC
be package which had been mailed here
five days before. 1t had been 10 Mount
Vernon. remained there three or four
days unopened and was then sent back il
the Evansville mail.
Instead Of the 'Jaur pas" Of which
the Advocate speaks Of being committed
at this office, the editor will find the dii-
ticulty right at his own door. 1t con
sists Of having drunken Post Master
who pays more regard to the con
tents Of the whisky bottle than
he does to the duties of his Office -
A man who sees snakes in his boots
in his hat, in his coat sleeves, in
his breeches' legs, and all around hin
may readily he excused for not being able
to read MOUNT VERNON" though
plainly written on package of letter,
he holds in his own hands. When suct
grievous evils right at home are corrected
it will be time for the editor of the Advo
cate to criticse the conduct of this of
fee.
In conclusion 1 will suggest to Mr.
Prosser, that inasmuch as he has give,
currency to story calculated to injur
this office, on the very poor authority o
an Incorporate Post Master, in his owl
town, justice requires that he should
publish this letter. Respectfully yours
C R. RUDD, P. NJ