St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-05-12
The Upper Mississippi Mails.

Last week we stated that orders had
been issued from the Post Office De-
partmcnt at Washington for the dis,
continuance of the mails which have
heretofore been carried by the River
Packets between Galcna and Prairie
du CHEN. We assumed that whatever
might be the exigcncies of the Fede-
raj finances, the abrogation Of the
contract on the part Of Government
was an unnecessary measure OF re-
trcnchmcnt that, considering the
commercial importance of the Upper
Mississippi country, some means should
have been invented for continuing
this route, and that ordinary individual
enterprise would have found it. Since
then the Packet Company have tele-
graphed to the Post Office Department
that they would continue the mail
transported ON according to the terms
of the old contract, and await an APP
preparation of Congress for their pay.
The Herald of this city. heretofore
a rampant Douglas affair, pounccs
down on our article quite savagcly,
saying the Government is not at all
to blame that it hadn't any money
to pay for mail service, and was
obliged to rcpudiate its contract and
that if it hadn't been for such faction
lists as we are, the innocent Admins
tration wouldn't have been placed
in any such dilemma Well +. well I!
what marvel shall we not have next ?
The Herald turned Buchananite A
rebel organiSt mctamorphosed into IA
loyal culogist Our Postmaster will
not need to be again an Editor ! The
Northwest will not be wanted The
Herald will hereafter furnish music
for both camps of the enemy
1t is exclusively the fault of the Ad-
ministration and its friends, that the
Postal Appropriation bill did not pass.
In the latter part of February last,
the Senate passed bill making APP
preparations for Post Office purposes
About the same time it also passed u
Post Route bill, upon which it engraft,
ed provision for the increase of Post
age Rates. Subsequently the House
passed Post Office Appropriation
bill, and sent it to the Senate for con
currcncc. The Administration portion
Of the latter body, determined to wor-
ry through its measure for an increase
Of Postage Rates, Incorporated it into
the House Appropriation bill, and thus
passed the latter act, by the close vote
of 20 10 %. OF course, the House re-
fused to accept Of this obnoxious in
tcrpolati0n, aud the bill was returned
to the Senate The Administration
Senator's refused to rccede from their
amendment Conference Committee
was raised in each House, which met,
and reported the original Senate APP,
preparation bill. The House promptly
adopted the Recommendation of the
Committee, by the passage Of the
Act, but the leaders OF the Niger De
mocracy in the Senate wouldn't now
accept even of their own original
measure. and in order to punish the
People for sending independent Repre-
scntativcs to the other House, factious-
ly killed the Appropriation bill. So
the Administration had no one To thank
for its bankruptcy excepting its own
friends !
The Post Office Department has no,o
no excuse for depriving the inhabi-
tants of the Upper Mississippi of their
ordinary mail facilities. The Packet
Company offer to do the work and wait
unit! the government shall return to
solvency for their pay. If the offer is
not accepted, the People Of four North
Western States will know the reason.
The Herald mcckly suggests that a
numcrously signed Petition be sent to
Washington, humbly praying the Gov
ernmcnt to grant the inhabitants Of
the Mississippi Valley a restoration Of
the privileges which have been filched
from them. Bah ! What in the world
is the matter with our ncighbor 4? Is
he after the mail route advertising,
or has he already surrendered un-
conditionally TO Lecomptonism Or
is he beginning to do penancc for
the vile things which he has said Of
his Democratic brethren of the Bu-
chanan faith There is a chance for
explanation somewhere i Dubuque
Times.