The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-07


We believe we possess all the patience
that ordinarily falls to the lot of mortality,
but we acknowledge there are some cut
RACES that upset our equanimity. One of
these is the disgraceful partisan purposes
which'the Post Office Department is made to
from agents and friends, informing us of the
non-arrival of our papers, which we know
are mailed as regularly and promptly as
the publication day arrives. A direct blow
is aimed at our business, because post mas
tiers and route agents know as well as any,
that people will not subscribe for papers
which they cannot receive regularly. At
what particular spot the blame lies we can
not say. Did we know, we should take 9TH
er steps beside uttering complaints through
the columns of our paper. Did the omis-
sions to deliver our paper occur only once
in while we should say nothing. But
that is not the case. The thing is repeated
week after week, md what is still more re-
markable those Post offices having the best
mail facilities-such as are located on the
line of the Railroad, and within our own and
adjoining county-fail to receive the paper
ottener than almost any other. This cannot
be accidental. As with our paper, so with the
Volksbote. The editor of that paper informs
us that he never experienced any trouble of
consequence until he hoisted the Repub
lican ticket Since then he has been inces-
sanity annoyed by the complaints of his
subscribers. The other day he took pack
age of papers to the Post Office directed to
Nash's Depot. He called the attention of
one or two citizens TO the fact of his mailing
his papers. He sent, ut the same time, a
letter to Mr.. Nash, the Postmaster at that
station, asking linn to notify him immedi-
ately if the papers failed 20 arrive. Mr..
Nash, on receiving the letter, but falling to
receive the papers, came down to the city
and notified Mr.. Bischoff, az he requested
him to do. They then went to the Post
Office, and made inquiry of the clerk Mr.
Rudd was absent at the time the papers
were put in the office, who was positive be
had mailed the papers The route agent,
Mr.. Hill, being called upon, was equally
positive he had never received the papers.
The question then narrowed down to the
fact that either the Post Office clerk 10 the
Post Office in this city, or the route agent
on the cars, suppressed those papers.
Again: A few days ago, a gentleman of
our city mailed package of papers for Du-
bois county. Scarcely any of those papers
reached the parties to whom they were adj
dressed. A large club of subscribers in
Spencer county sent to the FOtksbots, early
in the campaign, very few of whom have
received their papers. Our agent at POsey-
Vile writes us that our papers do not arrive
punctually and the package complete, at his
town, one week in four. These outrages are
uncomfortable, but yet have to be submitted
/ to, because it is next thing to an impossi-
! bility to fasten the evidence upon any par
ticuzar indipidlal We are willing to con-
tend with the Democracy if they will only
give US a fair field, but to suppress our pa
pers while theirs are freely circulated is
| placing us at unfair disadvantage.
! We have several subscribers in England
and we are informed their papers come to
hand regularly. Why is this We can
account for it in no other way than that
our English subscribers can not cast votes.
Several of our agents tell us they have
money in their hands for subscriptions but
feel unwilling to send it until they are as
sured the papers will come to hand regularly.
That assurance we can not give, because,
judging by the past, we have every reason
to believe the papers will be interfered with
in the future as they have been in the past.
A change in the administration of the
Government is the only hope we have that
the evil will be removed.