The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-05

sonal quarrel between the philosopher of the
| Tribune and the apostle of the higher law"
| THE LAST REFORM IN THE POsT OFFICE
The newest Post ONCE reform which has been
inflicted upon this city by the Postmaster Gene
raj, with the sanction and advice, we presume,
of the city Postmaster Mr.. Dix, is the abolition
of Boyd's City Post, an establishment which
gave general satisfaction to the business COM
munity and our citizens generally, and the
transfer of the delivery of city letters to the
Post Office Department exclusively. There is
no doubt of the legal right of the Post Once
Department to do this; but the purpose which
led to it is very questionable, and the result of
it has already proved disastrous.
Some years ago the late Mr.. Boyd, most es-
Unable and upright man, established the City
Post and conducted 1t with consummate skill
and energy. Upon his demise his son, young
man of strict integrity and excellent business
capacity, carried 1t on, and with such precision
and accuracy that every class in the community
was satisfied. We never had such regular de-
livery of letters in the city before; it was q
boon to every one in the metropolis The sys-
TEN Hourished and the business of the estab-
employed fifty persons in carving letters, many
of them with families, to WON he paid about
twenty or twenty-five thousand dollars year,
the aggregate business of the concern amount
ing probably to some $4,000 annually. And
this system the Post Office Department has now
IF int
form.
II happened that previous to the last charter
election one of our leading politicians, Mr..
Mayor Wood, sent hundred thousand circulars
to his constituents through Boyd's City Post, in
the usual business way; and after they were de-
posted, two Tammany men, agents of that in
stitution. called on Mr.. Boyd while he was occu-
pied with his duties, and proposed to him to
cousummate great fraud by delivering up Mr..
Woods circulars to them, offering to pay the
postage on them, and to "make it all right" be-
Sides Mr. Boyd, like an honorable man, not
only refused to accede to their infamous propo-
sition. bat he showed up the two vagabonds
who made ii.
Since that time some politicians have been
earnestly pressing upon the Postmaster Gene
raj the fact that the government had right to
the emoluments derived from the delivery of
city letters-as it certainly had-and that Boyd
was appropriating a business which legiti
mately belonged to the Post Office. This
view was pertinaciously presented to the gov
eminent again and again, and it appears with
ultimate success. This, we presume, was the
mode by which Boyd's City Post was abolished,
and our citizens deprived of one Of the great
est conveniences to the entire community. If
the Postmaster would employ Mr.. Boyd to su-
perintend the city delivery, we might expect
something like regularity, but instead of that
the business is entrusted to set Of stupid poll
ticians, who are entirely ignorant of what is to
be done, and already, in one week, the whole
business of the delivery of letters in the city is
confused and disorganized.
This Is the way Postmaster General Holt
manages the affairs of his department, in which
be is advised and assisted by the Postmaster Of
New York-a pair of laundering bunglers. 1t
II true that the Postmaster General has legal
right to absorp the delivery Of letters in the
city, but in doing so, under the circumstances,
he evinces no regard for the interests Of the me-
tropolis, but, on the contrary, has inflicted seri-
Gus mischief upon its entire community.
THE PRINCE or WALES IN THE UNITED
SrArEs.-There is q good deal Of curiosity in
various quarters as to what kind Of reception
the Prince of Wales Is to receive in New York,
and there seems to be general wish felt that
the Corporation shall have nothing to do with
any celebration which may be got up. We had
a precious sample Of the Corporation in the re.
ception of the japanese. His Excellency the
Mayor, as he is called in the English official
correspondence we believe, intends to invite
the whole military force in the city and suburbs,
to the number Of fifteen or twenty thousand
men, If they can be got together, to turn out
and receive the Prince, as the most appropriate
manner to welcome him to the metropolis of the
Union. The Mayor himself will, no doubt, en-
terrain him privately in his own way, but
nevertheless, 1t seems quite proper that the
Baron Of Renfrew-for though taking that title
be is still Prince-should be received in some
marked manner by the citizens of New York.
Several British residents, II appears, have
issued call for meeting to get up grand
ball in honor of the Prince, but that is not the
kind Of reception be wants lie does not come
here to see any number of bis mothers SUBJ
jects; be has seen enough Of them in Nova SEQ.
tia and Canada. He comes here to visit the
American people, and by them he should be
received. On such an event as the visit Of the
heir to the English throne there is wealth
enough in the city to raise a munfcent fund
for his reception. According to the tax list
there are one hundred and fifty millionaires In
New York, each with incomes, say OF nearly
a hundred thousand year; Eve hundred semi
millionaires, with incomes Of forty or fifty thou
sand year, while the property owned in the
city and suburbs is valued at some seven hun.