New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-15
ceIlaneou. in its population. Sometimes, when
Postmaster is obligipg and popular in Republican

cellaneous in its population. Sometimes wneo
Postmaster is oblgipg and popular in Republican
community. the Department seems to assume
that be cannot On that very account, be faith
| full, and decapitating ukase is sent from Wash
ington. great many people write TO US to COM
plain that their Postmasters will never give ofense'
in the last named respect, to their superiors but
are daily proving themselves 10 be model Demo
Gratis by their porcne. ursine, asnine and mulish
behavior. their principal business being to
worrit" TO the borders Of destruction everybody
who has a letter to send or letter to receive.
Sometimes the Postmaster gets drunk. Some
times be cannot read Sometimes he is so
stupid that he cannot tell Spanish quarter from
seven dollar bill. OF course among so many ON
GERS, there are great many honorable exceptions;
a great many who are intelligent and ObLsing and
methOdical great many who fill their places as
we'll as the Department viii let them. Fortunate
are these if they escape badgerings, rebuke and
removal.
All the communications Of the character to which
We have alluded We cannot publish; for most Of our
correspondents being exceedingly wroth, are also
exceedingly verbose, and occasionally lapse into
what the big-wigs would declare to be libeOus
We hope that those who may hereafter write to US
will observe the following rules:
/. Pc brief.
2. Do not omit the County and State from which
you writing.
3. Write upon one side only Of sheet of paper
4. Do not write upon side only of the case,
but give US all the facts and while you extenuate
nothing, do not be malicious.
Since We cannot publish all these complaints,
we propose. as we have heretofore done, to give
specimens. Here are three cases-tbree fowerets
which will go to make a posy for the nose of the
Department:
Case I'm little village in this State the Post
master who had acceptably filed the office for
years was removed, and Democrat much given to
the vine cup appointed He insisted upon keeping
the office in a low GROCERY. The citizens secured
lease Of this and shut it up. Upon this the re-
doubtabe Democrat moved the office two miles
and half from the settlement. There he left an
assistant and proceeded to establish himself as
principal at still further distance. Now the office
of assistant has been abolished, and the people of
this fated town must 60 four miles for their mails.
How popular their Postmaster is may be inferred
from the fact that some of them have directed to
change their address to point five miles from their
place of residence.
Case 1.-THE Post Office in Ripeyviue, Huron
County. Ohio, has been discontinued. This obliges
the inhabitants to go into other townships for their
mail matter. The Office was Of thirty years stand
ing, in thicklypopulated district. The reason for
abolishing the office was that there no Demo-
crat in the place who wanted it and who was fit for
it. The citizens have held a meeting in which
the whole affair is denounced as piece of partisan
trckery.
Case HIN town in Illinois, correspondent
writes to US that Postmaster has been appointed
who is notorious drunkard; who not long ago
turned his family out of doors, smashed all the
H,rniture, and burned his wifes cothes who has
h.d -" and who owes bis appointment
70 stsnben A Douglas. Luz Is;: worthy Senator,
upon being told that the people Of- "C~'
never sanction the appointment, remarked, The
"people of are nothing but set of id
4" Abolitionsts and they have got to stand it four
"yearS at any rate. They may like it or lump it,
"just as they please
This will answer for the present. Our space
not our material, is exhausted On another oc-
casion we may add to the collection.