Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-12-12
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

never been advocates for the scheme esssying
to make the Postal Department of this Govern
ment do everything for everybody, by and
through a resort to the postal panaceas OF the
various quacks of political economy who va
granize over the land, trying to stir up public
sentiment upon the subject, We are neverthe-
less hearty advocates for any and all changes
in our postal system likely to benefit the popu-
lar interest That is to say, for all such as may
not be likely to cost more in the end than they
can possibly be worth to the community at
large. Among these is the policy of cheapening
and expediting the delivery of letters in the
cities. In nine cases out Of ten, it is more i'm
portant that the correspondence of the business
men of the cities should be expedited in its
transmission than any other correspondence
whatever. 1t is also certain that, in pro-
portion to distance and trouble, city deliv-
cries cost persons using the mails ten times
as much as any other mail facilities. For many
years past the Post Office Department have
been labOriOusly engaged in efforts to systema-
tie city deliveries so as to save both time and
money to the public. Various experiments
have been tried, none Of them succeeding en-
sAASiy PSihoPS V"ihS " tuC uChicuCso VI popu-
lar opinion on the subject, which has really
greatly interfered to prevent success
Postmaster General Brown, taking up the
subject where his predecessors left it, has hap
PLY accomplished more than either of them for
the benefit of the cities in this connection. In
his recent able perspicuous and satisfactory re-
port he touches upon the point Us follows
"With the view to facilitate the receipt and
delivery of letters I'm New York, Boston. and
Philadelphia the pOstmasters In these cities have
been instructed to make Improvements ia their
leter-carrier system to the full extent authorized
by law. In New York I found that nearly every
thing had been done that could he accomplished
under existing laws, except the transmission OF
drop letters direct to their address without going
into the main office, which is now done. or all
letters through the mail tine carriers receive two
cents each for delivery, and on drop letters one
cent. l had hoped to be able to reduce the de-
livery fee to the uniform price Of one cent; but
this was found impracticable in New York and
Philadelphia, inasmuch as the lac requires thar
the entire cost Of defrery shall be defrdyed our
Of the carriers receipts In Boston, where all
the districts are comparatively densely popu-
lated, one cent letter is made TO pay. The post
age on drop letters including the carriers fee, is
now two cents; and upon the improved plan now
adopted for their delivery direct from the main
office, or the nearest station the case NAV be
1t is fully believed that the public convenience
will be fully subserved. In each Of these cities
there are to be from four to six deliveries a day
and the letters for mailing. &c, are to be col.
lected and disposed Of as frequently AZ the occa-
sion may require | do not feel at liberty to adj
wise the free delivery of letters by carriers but
would recommend a modification Of the present
law, so as to give the Postmaster General author
ity to have the delivery made at one cent letter
rhsthsr the carriers receipts sufficient to meet
expense, or NOT IL the improved system is found
to work satisfactorily in the three cities above
mentioned, II Is my purpose to extend 1t to all
the other principal cities in the United States. -
ApyopOs of post Office matters in tho cities
A correspondent Of the Philadelphia Press ex-
plains danger Of resorting to private letter
expresses and private post Offices which should
be duly needed by business men everywhere
as follows:
'No man, who uses either private despatch
company, or the Government sub-ofices, knows
when he may not be called upon to rove the re-
cept of the letter by the party to whom 1t is adj
dressed. Now, when you use the Government
mails, II you prove that you put letter into the
post office addressed to A. ii is presumed by lao
ny's despatch You must prove the actual receipt
OF the letter-a thing impossible to do in ninety.
nine cases out Of a hundred. In all cases where
notice and Proef Of notice are required it is alb
solutely necessary to use the Government post ~
HUNBuGGISG THEN.-Some Washington cor
respondent Of the New York Herald is hum
SiSooSis Vi tuot JSuTHdi Win StOTy
Of a friendly understanding between Walker,
the fllibuster, and Senior Irissari the Nicara-
guam Minister, embracing a similar under
standing between the Government of Nicaragua
and Walker, by which the latter was to have
been welcomed by the former, and used to dis
possess Costa RIGA of possession or military
command Of the transit route
We have to say that we know of our own
knowledge that this story is utterly without
foundation. 1t Is about on par with the pre-
vious story that the National Administration
was winking at the filiibusters, rather than So
riOusiy opposed to the success of their schemes
for the violation of the neutrality law which
was 50 signalIy exploded by the Message
We repeat we know Of our own knowledge
that the pertinacity Of Senior Irissari in seeking
a recognition here under circumstances in which
otherwise he would doubtless have felt it due
to himself to have evinced less solicitude ON
the subject, was Occasioned wholly by bis de-
termination that no considerations personal to
himself should interfere to prevent him from
saving his country, and, indeed, all Central
America, hereafter from the direful conse-
quences Of successful raids of such "Ameri-
cans rs Walker and his followers
FALLING STILL-BORN To THE GROUSD.-Ws
have searched our exchange Democratic papers
for two days past, to find in single one of them
that had not previously gone off, evidence that
the act of Senator Douglas in doing what Sena-
tor Seward proclaimed to be equivalent to
mounting the platform so long occupied by that
distinguished gentleman and his immediate
friends, had induced single journal previously
affiliated with the Democracy to hesitate in its
support of the position of the National Admin
istration and the party in Congress upon the
question Of the acceptance of the Kansas State
Constitution
This is significant fact, truly. Other dis
tinguished Democratic statesmen have taken
ground with the opposition upon exciting and
important questions. We might name twenty
OF them, commencing with Henry Clay and
ending with Messrs. VIM. G. Rives and N. p.
Tallmadge. We submit to the reader, as a re-