Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-06-29
Bringing the Matter Home.

We learn from T. E. WEBB, Esq. Post
Master at this place. that notice has been
received from the Post Office Department,
that after the LIST of July, the mail routes
from Warren to Kinsman, and from War
rem to Salem, via Lordstown, North Jack
son, Sc, viii be discontinued: those from
Warren to Jefferson, via. North Bloomfield;
from Warren to Jefferson, via. Bazetta,
Greensburgh, &c: and from Warren to
F~armipgson. which are now tri-weekly, will
be changed to semi-weekly; and the mail
from Warren to Salem, via Garfield, which
is nov q daily mail, viii be a tri-wcekly.
THIS lesscning of mail facilities Will prove
a serious inconvenience to the citizens along
these routes. and at the terminus Espe-
4eially viii the citizens of the north and west
part Of the county, and of this town, feel
she effect of reducing the mail service on
the Salem route via Canfel1 one-half,
and thus depriving them entirely of a daily
mail from the east, via Pittsburgh. All
the nal matter from Pittsburgh, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, and New York comes over
this route To the post Offce in this town
comes all the mail matter destined for the
western and northern portion of this county,
and the southern portion of Ashtabula coun-
ty. For the last forty years there has been
daily Sundays exceptcd) mail cOmmuni-
esEiep between this place and Pittsburgh,
and lpqW when the population has quadru-
pied, and the business increased twenty-fold,
this. exceedingly economical Democratic Ad-
mristration cuts down the mail facilities
.ope.haE.
IL Ohio had been q Slave State, no such
result would have followed. The Postage
paid by the Free States of this Union is
more than four times as much as is paid by
the Slave States The receipts from the
pest. Offices Ia the Free States have always,
from the first formation of the government,
more than paid all the expenses of the mails
inthose States, while the receipts from the
Slave States have neper paid expenses, but
the surplus paid by the Free States has
keea required, in whole. or in part, to make
sup.the deficiency. l. 1856, the statistics
Of the Post Office Department showed that
the profits of the Post Offices in the Free
States were s3,48l. COZ Is, while the loss
of the Post Offices IN the Slave States was
s600,2S5 SO. Although since the reduc-
tion of the postage on letters to the uniform
rate Of three cents. Except to California;
the profits on the Pest Offices Of the Free
States have been lessened, still the proper
ton between the Post Offices of the Free
and Slave States remain nearly the same, or
have only changed still more in favor of the
Free States
1t is well that the screws have been tight
.ened in a part of the political machinery
where the pressure will be felt at home,
right here, in our own county, and in the
private business of nearly every individual.
When our citizens are waiting for letters
and papers which are .delayedpne, two, and
three days by these new arrangements, let
them r~ecollect that mail facilities in the
Free States, Fhere the postal arrangements
support themselves. are cut off in order to
furnish them in Slave States where they do
mot, and that Trumbull County has its share
of the, burden.
We presume that Mr.. Buchanan, like one
,cf.his predecessors, will say 1.-THE Frae States
can afford to be magnanimous."