The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-07-28
PARTIAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

The public, or at least that portion Of it
whSca reads the National Era, is aware that
the free States contribute about three-fourths
of the postal revenue Yet such is the Pro
Slavery partiality Of the present Admins
sration, that c1Ttaiments OF the expenses Of
the Department are made at the expense of the
North, while the South, 50 far as we know, is
permitted to enjoy its usual mail facilities. In
the cases of curtailment specified below, IT will
be seen that the Postmaster General has not
only taken free States, bat hopelessly opposition
States, for his victims.
The following changes in the mail service in
Ohio are noticed in the Cincinnati Gazette, as
abe beginning of az attack on the facilities in
that State:
"The daily mail route. by the omnibus line,
70 Reading, Sharon, Monroe, Mason, Shaker
Village, Lebanon, etc, has been changed By
abe Postmaster General TO only a tri-fccekly.
1.-The important town of ipois-upon
which is also dependent number of adjacent
post ofices-has been deprived of its daily
mail, (via Portland, on the Seioto and Hooking
Valley railroad, and is graeiousy allowed to
receive intelligence from the various parts of
the surrounding country thrice an each ,reek
These are specimens of such changes as
have as vet been brought specially to our knowl-
edge. OF course, they must be regarded as the
beginning ofaR extensive assault upon the daily
mail service in some of the most populOus and
important regions of the country"
These are routes that in private hands would
probably sustain themselves, but Government
management deprives the people of what they
are willing to pay for.
Occasional, the correspondent Of the Phila
delphia Press, notices the following penalties 9
a Government mail service visited on New
Jersey:
at is little singular, that the heavy hand
of the Postmaster General, in his desire TO re-
form and retrench, should fall upon certain
communities where population is dense, and
should be passed over Others where population
is not dense, but where economy might be ap
Dlied with good result. On inquiry at the De
nartmeut, / find that the Postmaster Genera
has issued an order cutting off from the daily
mail service in New jersey the important
towns of Mt. Holly, Bridgetou, Millyille, Green
vich. Medford, and Mt. Laurel. Bridgeton is
large place, with population of from four Il
five thousand inhabitants, extensive manufac
tories, and is a part OF country with consider
able shipping, having enjoyed daily mail TO
not less than thirty years. A Jerseyman no7
here announces that some of the enterprislns
citizens of the place propose setting up an OF
position daily express. carrying letiers and pa
pers at the same rate as Mr.. Hollis every othe
day coach. Monnt Holly is place equal
smportant with Bridgeton, and the residence c
large population; and Millyille is one of tn
most considerable towns in New Jersey. You
old townman, II. d. Wood, Esq, has extensiv
<,o,tor mills at Millvilie, by the occupants c
which the want of daily mail will be great
felt The course Of the Postmaster General, a
AL these important points in the free States
has produced, as may well be imagined, grea
deal of excitement"