The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-09-15

az The following letter, though somewhat
personal, contains matter of pubi,, interest and
we publish it. 1t would have been in :.ps last
week, but it was mislaid. The letter il ad-
dressed to the Post Master here who happens
to be the senior Editor of the Times.
In reply to Mr.. Sharpe, we have only to say
that if he has seen any circular letter of ours
to the P. Masters along Route lO953, or any
other route, he has seen more than the Post
Master at McGregor has discovered
DUBUQUE, Iowa, Sept. LIST, 1868.
Sir II was shown, few days ago, a circu-
lar letter written by you to the Postmasters
along Mail Route No l09s3, on which am
contractor; in which circular letter you have
stated that you have understood that LARGE
amount Of mail matter was piled up at the Of
fee at Hardin, and that great complaints were
made by the people at DEBORAH and west, of the
inefficiency or inability of the contractor, and
urging Postmasters to urge the matter upon the
Department at Washington, so that better
service might be put upon said Route. &c.
Now, Sir, permit me to inform you that
this whole story is lie, made of whole cloth,
there not being the shadow of truth about it,
If you had taken the trouble to have got the
truth instead of taking the lying representations
of the agents and hangers-on of M. o. Walker.
you would have spared yourself the trouble of
writing your circular. believe you to be a
fair man and will consequently give you very
short history of the doings of this man, Walk
er's, lodging since obtained these mail con-
tracts. He wrote me from Washington as soon
as the bids were proclaimed, that he wanted
to arrange the matter with me. that he would
either buy or sell and would DO to see me be-
fore the LIST of June, then afterwards wrote me
from time to time defeling the meeting until
the 23rd of June. still urging me to do nothing
until he saw me, that he would make a salts.
factory arrangement with me. Placing that
confidence in him which one man should place
in his fellow, l waited until the appointed time
arrived and he appeared and what proposition
do you suppose he made? Why he would
take a few assignments of two of my best
routes and / might keep the others myself
sAS "oNiu WY uoshi"6 W oCA hOtuiuS. Ou
observe it then wanted days of the time
| when mail service was to be commenced upon
nearly 700 miles of road, and he then expressed
willingness to bet $500 that l nor no
other living man could stock any Of the roads
by the LIST Of July, (only S days) soyou per-
oeive that had good deal of work to do in
a very short time. was forced to put such
service upon the roads as I could get along
with, and consequently had to put such service
on the road as my contracts compelled me, viz
10 carry the Mail, which have done faithfully
and believe to the entire satisfaction of every
P. NJ. that have supplied, with the exception
of the P. M. at West Union, who is the tool o.
this man, M. o. Walker. As for the story o.
the mails stored at Hardin, will give you thu
history. Monona is not on this route at all; my
route is from Elkader to Hardin, direct, but the
carrier for the sake of accommodating the
Monona people with direct mail to Dubuque
and Dyersyille, went that way, and when a
Monona the P. M. told him there was number
of mail bags that had been stored in his offic,
by this immaculate NJ. o. Walker, and liz
wished my driver would take them up to Deco
rah, which he consented to do. When he go
to Hardin, he found that if he kept all the mai
which he took on at Monona, he could not tax,
all from Hardin, so he consequently left one 0
the Newspaper bags which he had taken at Mo
mona, but took it up next trip, so it arrived a
DEBORAH in time. Now if you will take tn,
trouble to inquire into the truth Of the matter
you will find this the head and front of min,
offence. ! am now stocking up my routes tt
accommodate the travelling public. and have
placed uron this route good comfortable Hacks
first rate Horses and careful divers, and it is my
j intention as soon as l can get on some new
wagons, which are ordered, to commence run
ming from your place daily line, when hoE,
to get acquainted with you, and hope to con
vince you by personal acquaintance, that
am not quite SO inefficient a mail contractor
as You have been led to believe. horc tha
for the honor of our own State Il having beer
a resident 10 years. that may have an equa
chance with this outsider who has been monopo
lizing the staging in this State ever since il
has been State. have been thus particular
in writing you, because believed you had beef
misinformed
Yours, Respectfully,
JOS. SHARPE.