Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-20

ESPosT OFFICE MArTERs.-No recen
financial arrangement is giving more salts
faction to the people than the Postal Mon.
ey Order System. It grows in favor every
day, aud because it affords the public the
most expeditions and reliable medium Of
RENTING money in small amounts, say
from one dollar up to thirty, to all points
of the country. Such thing as loss by
mail is now rendered impossible. You
buy one of the Post ofice checks and you
send it to your relative or creditor, as the
case may be, in any part of the country,
and no one bat that person or his eudorsee
can get the money, and the curious ar
rapgement of the check Is that no one but
the genuine party can know to whom it is
payable. 1t is this feature that gives the
Post Office money order its value and its
Pre-eminence over any other form of check,
and makes it the safest way in the world
to remit money. We may say, however,
just here, that it is not the intention to
make the Money Order Checks competitors
with the checks of the banks. Not at all.
To prevent such competition no money or
der can be drawn for over thirty dollars,
although the same person may purchase
several orders of that amount. Still
the object and intention of the Mon
ey Order System is simply to supercede
the remittance of FIVE and ten
dollar notes, and other like small sums, by
mail, and to prevent themany Losses which
have constantly annoyed the public and
the Post Office Department in times past.
This system is only just started, but it
grows from week to week. at the Wheel
ing Office here We sre having evidence of
its increasing popularity. The Postmaster
has had small slips printed and scattered
broadcast among the people, and the con-
sequence is that anybody who can read
understands the system, aud sees at once
its great security and convenience. If all
Postmssters at Money Order Offices were to
do this, the public everywhere would soon
be fully Informed as to all the merits of the
system, and the consequence would be
that in very short time the bulk of re-
mittances, in small amounts, from on e part
of the country to the other, would be
through the medium of Money Orders.
While we are speaking of post office
matters, we may notice general COM
plant along this end of the Baltimore and
Ohio road, from our subscribers aud 9TH
sts, as to the inadequate delivery of their
mail matter. The difficulty happens this
way; Owing to the recent accidents
on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road there is just now scarcity of mail
cars, and the Route agents on several oc-
casious have, in consequence, neither
received or delivered mail matter along a
good portion of their route between here
and Cumberland. The railroad company
have, however, been improvising such mail
Accommodations as they could, and Mr.. Ford
has agreed with the postmaster here that
the agents shall have the exclusive use of
a passenger car when a mail carfs impos-
sible. In addition to this assurance, Mr..
Waller, Special Agent of the Department,
writes that both Messrs Garrett and Cole,
of the Baltimore road, have assured the
Department that supply OF mail cars are
now under way and will soon be on the
track.