The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-06-14
CoUDERsPoRT POTTER COUNTY, Pa THURSDAY, 1860

another dodge The postage on letter
to Europe is 24 cents, an enormous
amount to pay. But the mail is closed
in the morning and the merchant who
waits until "A reasonable time before the
steamer sails, and sends his letter to the
steamer.5haS to pay As cents The money
goes into the Till, but not in the account
am told that there are twenty men or
more vino never DO any duty at the Post
Office, except at priular.y election-uo
duties, except to take S10Q, or Sl5Q a
month and carry it away. And the peo-
pie are Wondering why the Post-Qflice
can't support itself. 1t can and would
with hoaest legislation and pure govern
ment. 1t doesn't, because it is called
upon to support the Democratic party,
and that is terrible hard load. Laugh
ter and applause Just that all around
1t is , 2,000'miles straight across to Cali
fornia bat they run their mail route
round $500 miles. 1t runs where no,
body wants to 20, and carries no letters.
| 90 up to the cars here to put in a letter,
aud we have Il mail agent on tie train
whose business it is to take letters but
| have found laleIy that it is against the
rule for him TO do So The reason Is that
the Postmaster wants to make bis per
centage, and for that they must 90 thro
the Office So you must give your letter
to passenger, and the Government get
nothing. | don't believe there ever was
a government or earth as corrupt and
rotten as this. Twenty mIiliors ol Treas
ury Notes coming due and nothing to
pay them with Forty millions Of debt
abundance Of deficiency bills, and you
will fld terrible deficiency, not IN the
bills, when these men 90 out Of Office
/ Let not the distractions about Slavery
blind US to this. ] will take up another
officer There has been Il good deal Of
talk about the amount of money robbed
from slavers.
Two thin gs have been developed these
last years. New York has become the
metropolis Of the saye-tradiDg. The way,
as it has been told TO ne, Is this The
isiave-vesSel its out here and starts out.
! In the Office Of the Marshal, the luJclIi-
gent and honorable Isaiah RynderS, there
is a fellow called Dore, Theodore Ryn-
ders. The SLAYER is watched, and when
she is ready to sail, 'Do?e and somebody
else charter Il tug and run after her.
! hen they have cot outside OF the Mar
rows they 90 on board and hnd box OF
specie, $4,000 or So, which is tolerably
easy to fud, and they come back and report
that they didn't find her. Laughter
Another box o. $40 900 is down below
and that is to pay for tn cargo. / un-
derstand this fact took place. \ leading
lawyer went up to the Marshal's Oliee
aud said, my client has lost s., 600 and
your boat took it!" There was some
swearing and some blowing but the mon.
cy came back. 1t GOT SO bold and open
that there is now kind Of explosion talk
about this, but | supp,se that 1t will be
fixed up some way Oh other. The Gov
ernmeut is rotten and corrupt from top
to bnttom, and the people ought to have
don't believe tile great mass OF men
ever did desire corrupt, swiEdling Gov
crnmcnt | felt that we ought to have
candidates against whose stern integrity
nothing could be said, aud of whose stern
opposition to all manner OF prodigaIlty,
not to say corruption, IN government,
there is no doubt believe We have co.
such candidates. SHOW up these corrrp-
tious, which have created a>tonishmcnt
and alarm even Oh the other side OF the
water. Let the people see what sort OF
men govern tacm. and | am sure they
will demand q change. | am sure that.
having haushed some of the old preju-
dices which made u> enemies, the :reat
mass of those who love honesty and f!u-
galitv, Will come together and say apart
from all distractions and theories, the
first consideration is honest, responsible,
frugal Government. believe that there
might be saved miIiioHs Annually. | be
licye that the Post-Oliice might be made
to support itself, nearly or quite at our
present rates Of postage. In the midst
+ of the cry about the Post Odi>e. defcien-
cy bill, and the need Of money, one CT
/ ,he Postmasters in this State told me that
he did not understand it; he had the mon
ey of bis own Office and fifteen Or twenty
ofices about him lying on his hands, bur
the Government did not call for it There
is no possibility, no accountability, on
the part of the subordlnates Of this Ad-
ministration. Ifthey pack delegates well,
their accounts arc overlooked, and they
may steal as !ong as they see fit. That
is why the Treasury IS out at the elbows
the utter dishonesty and Generalization
of the whole concern. l will say very
little Of the men who are now before the
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