Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-09-22
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We last week stated that the failure of
the appearance of the List of Letters"
in that issue might be attributed to the
"slow coaches in the Cumberland Post
Office. Since which issue the p o. has
published the following card' in the
last number of the Union:
"a CABIN the Cislian and Telegraph,
on The 18th inst, appeared a paragraph reflect
| ing on the management of The POst-ofiicc, in
| this city, in regard to the " List of Letters.
! 1t has been our uyarable custom to furnish this
List to the paper in question on Wednesday
morning, and on that day of this week, at 10
O'Clock, the List was placed in their Box, ready
for publication. Mr.. George W. Hoover for
merly received it at ] | o clock and Mr. Jacob
| Wickard al half-past 10. which was early g.
uough to suit their convenience. The present
! Superintendent of the Ctriiian Office was noti-
fed three weeks ago, that 10 . clocf, on We =
| nesday, was the earliest hour at which the List
could he furnished. This would give them
eieren hours to get out their pepper before any
;nail leaves this Office. Furthes common on
this uncalled-for attack is unnecessary
CUMBERLAND P0ST-OFFlCE.
'Sept. H." o
What We said last weel; appears to have
touched the managers of the Cumber-
land Post-ollicc in very tender place,
and fearing it might reach where they
would not like for it to go, they come out
in the above card" denying our charge,
which charge We here reiterate. They
say they placed the :" List" in our box
at 10 o'clock on the Wednesday morning
preceding our day of issue. Suppose
they did. That was too late for us to
publish them, as we are.obligcd to go to
press at that time in order to enable us to
have cur papers ready for the mails, or
rather have them ia the Post-oihcc in
time for their distribution. AS regards
their statcucnt about the time the former
managers Of this paper received the List
we care nothing about. We asked the
favor of them to furnish us the List ear
lier on "Wednesday morning than has
been customary heretofore. Was there
anything unreasonable about such Il re.
quest? We can't see 1t if there was.
1t is the duty Of the Postmaster ant
his clerks, and they know it, to furnish IL
the - List of Letters" in time for publica.
ion, which we say positively they failed
to do last week What right have they
70 demand that we should delay our pa
per to suit their convenience? We have
large circulation and if we stop our pa
pear and wait until they are ready ana
choose to give us the List the consequence
is that we miss the mails and perhaps
cause our papers to lay for II whole dry i'll
this Post-oflicc.
:. Further comment" we think, on the
management of TIE Cumberland Post
Ilfice, is entirely unnecessary, ms, iudg
ing from the many rery eatI1hattc denim
Citations which we hear hurled aga;ns
thc manner and system with which I'll,
Cumberland p. q. is carried on, bv tn,
community at large, that all are very vel
acquainted with the fact.
G-,y The List of Letters" by tic
timely furnishing of them to us, appear
in our columns to-day, which clearly de-
monstrates the fact, as We state, that it is
not asking anything unreasonable when
we request the List earlier on Welnes-
lay than usual