New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-11
ruR posr-nERsCE SITE.

For some years past most persistent effort
has been made by certain downtown spectators
in real estate, backed by tie Banking influence,
to fOist upon tho Federal Government the pres
ent POst.Ofice site for permanent location.
This project was opposed by the great mass of our
business men, and the public generally, for the
obvious reason that the place in an incOnyenient
and out-Of-the-way part of the city, wholly un-
suited for the purpose. Under the adnIinlstra-
ton of Mr.. Buchanan, however, the spectators
succeeded in selling the property to the Govern
ment, $4,000 being rased by parties inter-
ested, TO make up the deficiency in the apprO-
priation, and it is now asserted that $4,000
more has been raised By the same persODs as
corruption fluid, to use in ciiectDg the passage
Of this bill through the Legislature. This heavy
outlay is made by real-estate owners. who hope,
by retaining the POst-Offce where it is, to stay
the downward tendency OF real estate below Fulton
street, caused b! the uptown movement OF business
But their efforts are vain. The First Ward has
seen its best days. The great commercial inter-
ests which once ceUtered there have, with the
growth OF the city from a provincial seaport to
be the metropolis Of the United States, deserted
it and found more cOmmodlous quarters nearer
the heart of the city, leaving that ward to emf
grant clearinghouse. A ie" mOney-changers,
whose business hours extend O5er less than one-hal
of an ordinary day, reiu0in there stil 1t is true;
but the Post Office, we take it, is designed for
the benefit Of the public generally, and not for
any particular class QUite in keeping with this
proceeding was the acton at the Com Exchange
on Friday lat. Resolutions in favor of the pre-
sent site were sprung upon an assemblage of
brokers, without any notice, aud, in spite Of the
earnest demands of several gentlemen for time TO
consider the matter, rushed through, aud ordered
IN ba sept TO the Legislature. An influential re.
monstrnuce sent to that body some time ago
AGAINST the measure cannot be found. 1t is due
- the emonstrants that the matter should lie
over till they can be heard.
The location of the Post-0fice ia an important
one.f;on The Common Council of the city
have unanimously denounced the Old Dutch
Church site. The people have denounced 1t, the
,,ass have denounced it, tae great dry goods In
teres. is opposed to it, it Is out oil reach OF the
hotels the people at large do not want 1t there
wbv force it, then, upon u.s. The interests
tbo CITY at large are surely OF more Importance
ph.o the wishes Of q few downtown lOt-ownera
Nv locating the Post Office in the Chy'hall Parf
the work of transferring heavy mails IRON The
ears to great slow, numbering, six-horae wagons
yould be Obyiated and the mail-cars could bt
run quickly and directly into the Post-ofice
The publishing interest Of this city certainly
ought to BIO consulted Here are hundreds O.
tuns of pamphlets, newspapers, and books posted
weekly by it. all Of which have now to be carried
TO little, narrow, crooked Liberty street, there
dumped into the st-Ofice, then tumbled int
other wagons, and thence driven to the ds'ah
railroad depots. How much more easily coui'
this be done il the Post-0lIice were in situation
where il could be directly connected by rah VIII
the various mail routes.
We tdink, "a the present Administration VII
have 10 pay for the POst-Ofice, that 1t ought u
be allowed to pass upon the title and the sue
We don't believe that the title to the Dutci
Church il sound. At all events, the trustee
have not extingushed the claims OF the vault
owners, TO our certain knowledge. How, then
could the conyeyaucer employed by the Govern
ment certify to the validity of the title? Did tht
influence which presses the measure upon tn'
L. gislature operate upon him2 IL this one
the frauds on the Treasury characteristic OF the
late Administration Who knOws7 Let the new
Administration have an opportunity to EXAMINE
the matter thoroughly. The City of New-Yorl
can better afford to be coOped and cramped VI
in its present Post Office for a year or two thar
BY unseemly haste be doomed to endure il for
quarter Of century to come.