Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-12
tFary wa gassa wcTk--or something
worse AZ

feUt uOSss Ut DelOEej as It's lucHnatlOH
may prompt. On this pointI have the
express instructions of the Department.,
which are, that the paper to which the
list is awarded is entitled to all the 6ene-
fits resulting from its first publication"
am also instructed that if the list is
published in any other paper than the
one whieh.is entitled to it, the apublica'
ton must be dftsr.the publication in the /
paper entitled to it by law. 1t will thus
be seen that / could not, if would, give /
any other papers the list before its publ /
ca,ionN ID The Journal (the paper enti-
tied to it by reason of superior circula-
.tioD), without the consent of its proprie- .
tors. To them the Courte, must apply !
for the faYor-not to noe. They control |
the matter, not I, in my official capacity. |
Ny official Instructions forbid me giving
the list to any other paper than the one
entitled to it under the Regulations.
Thisis.a sufficient reply TO the charge of
" running the Post Office for the Eeans-
billie Journal and not for the benefit Of
the public s-
For tho same reason the German
Union, having been awarded the Letter.
List IN that language for 1868. accord,
to law and the regulations of the Depart
ment, has the sole. right to the first pub
location Of the German List.
The Courier charges that certain mails
have been left at drug store across the
alley from the Post Office. This has
happened a very few times under the
following circumstances: The Louis
vile River Mail is due at one o'clock /
Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sat-
urday afternoon, but as often gets in
after as before dark, and sometimes does
not reach here until after midnight. The
Post Office Department has no mall
messenger at this point, and it has hap
pened on very few occasions within
the past three years and half, during
the existence Of the present contract,
that the mail has arrived between. mid
night and daylight and been left at Adams
& Co.'S Express Office or the drug store
mentioned until morning, on nights
when, on account of sickness amongst
my clerks, Or other unavoidable cause,
there would be no one of them sleeping
in the office The persons in the ex-
press office and drug store not having
any key to unlock the bag and being
honest persons besides, there was no
danger to be fearsdin entrusting the bag
with them until morning. OF course
somebody sleeps in the Post Office unless
a combustion of extraordinary ciream-
stances prevents it. as
3 To-day's Courier echoes the COM
plant of Capt: wv. B. Mclean, that a
letter of Invitation to wedding, for
one of his daughters, went through a
variety of Munchausenish adventures,
and at length reached her too late for
the occasion, The Captain aforesaid
formerly held q box in this Office bnt
in course of time, thinking perhaps
that he had paid about enough of box
rent to an "Abolition P. NJ" as q mum
ber3 of his brother Oopperheads have
thought since my incunbency, or maybe
/ desiring to initiate the repudiating hab
its Of The rc1ivalry, Of whom be is .
bright and shining light, he suspended
payment and allowed his ticket to re
main in the box unpaid. After. I hac
let the matter run until became salts
fed that he did not intend to pay if he
could help it, vacated his box and told
the clerks to put his mail matter into
the General Delivery, as the practice is
iRBnch casegw Fhe letter referred to
came addressed Nc CLAIM, and not Nc
Lean, and was put into the box of |
Captain McClain who pays his bills ant
/, does not sneak into the General Delive
ry and euchre the Government out o
: its box rent. The public can believe a
much as it pleases of the rigmarole tina
Capt. W. B Mclean runs over to th
o Courier Office and tells the editor, 10
+ the purpose of injuring me. A maj
. who will act as he did about his dues b
{ the United States, would fabricate
e story like the one he told, to help excus
J. his delinquency And man who cam
f. near getting his neck stretched for be
it ing a rebeLspy in our midst, at the on
d break of the rebellion, is the very kin
,, of man to be sneaking around euchre
D ing a gGoyernment he hates, and star
o dering its agents. iaa} ,afo
= Mr.. A. S, Kierolf, principal editor (
2 the CourierI believe, takes me 10 tas
10 for putting letter for him into m
IS safe. The circumstances are these
IT Soon after the publishers of the pape
a. came here, / did an act OF kindnei
g for one of them in connection with
y letter. and, lie the n an who warmed
IS viper into lie, was stung in return
10 Since these late attacks have appeare
Is in the Courier a letter came to Il
OF Office addressed "Stephen Kierolf
ID That not being the name of the aboV
A. named editor, according to his paper,
Dr. took the letter from the General Deliv
70 ry where the clerks had placed it, al
IL put it for security into my safe, until
could ascertain to whom it belonged.
j. then sent him note telling him of Il
lie letter. and he afsrRarda claimed ar
/ got it made good point on hin
lie which he acknowledges, but this WI
g. not the design in what did. I7wt
}. afraid that if | put the letter into b
% box, and it was not his, he would abui
\. me for putting anothersman's letter I'M
IS his box and if l did not put the lettt
d there, and it did belong to him,
e would abuse me. So chose to be ce
n tain ywhatI was doing, and thus avoi
blame Yet have not succeeded. f
:, he abuses me still for my safe custod
!, of his letter pending the investigation
d ,copperhead-viper- like, is MT it ?
sr The Courier has several other mino
N | complaints against the Post Office, fC
is errots'in the distribution Of matter, g.
it These are greatly magni6ed for part
Ie effect and from motives of spite. Still
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