Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-17

epdeasbrs q bring itself into nolotieEg.
and TO save its reasonable party from
dissolution, by attacking Union Office
holders, for lack OF pore solid party
capital, has arrived at point, in its
abuse of me, where it has to change it's
base Of operations from q postal TO
political ground, or abandon the siege.
Its accusations that it hsralded with
big flourish Of top-heavy head lines and
nngrammaticab spishets, snow resemble
1.-THE little end Of nothing whitfield down
to q point and cut of. Sundays issue
runs them into the ground. Its readers
are told, with great seriousness, that
this, that, and the other newspaper got
an "exchange" out OF its box that did
not belong there. Now, in the FIRST
place, one of my clerks who distributes
the Exchange papers, and whose word
Is better than the oath Of the Courier or
the Denaokrat men, states, positively,
that be knows that no wrong papers were
put by him, on the days mentioned by
the Courier, into the drawer of either of
the above papers. Moreover, considering
that exchange" papers are generally
addressed very illegibly, aud that we in
this Office are up and at work, with short
intermissions, from six O'Clock in the
morning till midnight, and frequently
later, the wonder is that so few errors
are made. The Courier itself comes to
the Office most misersbly addressed, with
lead pencil.
The following paragraph contains an
other feeble charge against me:
1--WE have been assured by number
i of gentlemen that mail mattsr, for hours
at time, has been seen lying in the
open alley running beside the postofice.
There appears 10 be no one to attend to
IT, Is this efficiency, or fully up to the
postal regulations. e
Thereby hangs tales"
i One day lastweek friend called my
attention 10 bundle Of packages of the
Courier, which had been left at an nm
frequented door on the side of the Office
opposite the proper entrance for such
\ matter. The bundle was found some
time near the middle of the day, and
may have been there several hours for
Aught / know. We are not in the habit
OF sending out scouts every few minutes
and searching all the alleys to see
whether some b;ockhead or knave has
left Matchmaker there instead of bringing
1t into the /" mail-room" The door
4 where the bundle was left, is used but
little, and the person who left il there
proper place for il as the " Mail-Room
Sign is plain and easily read. There
was design in what was done, as my
t friend remarked wher he showed me the
: bundle. This is probably the case mem
toned By the Courier, and the para.
graph quoted is part OF the plot against
, me, in which the volunteer staff of the
Courier, through the very " responsible -
Editor, are trying to write me down.
L have thus met these allegations of
. postal Encouragement, one by one, and
shown them to be unfounded In great
part. In some cases they are malicious
falsehoods; in others, the irregnlari-
ties have been the result Of the
fault of others, or If not, they have
arisen from circumstances beyond nv
control; in other cases, the charges are
the outcrop of the spite of unhung
rebels, or Of @ certain meddlesome indi-
vidual who nurses O grndge against me
because would not loan him money to
help him out of tight place, and takes
The IF kbrnuinU vsfrsol au1 aaa
fetida at me (6guratiysly speaking).
Rebel hatred, desire for notoriety and
|, for party aggrandizement, and personal
spite, also faint hope of some of our
newly-dedged Andrew johnson mem
men who have heretofore opposed him to
the bitter end--that they may get the
Post Office" only this and nothing
more" is at the bottom of the plot.
Now for the political part of the con-
spiracy A large mares nest" has
s been discovered in the Princeton Dem.
: OcratS A letter, supporting to have
been sent by mistake to Democratic
soldier, is published. Here it is:
EvAEsv1LLE, IND,
4@-s e4 "Oct. 1863.
, "FRrEHD BoED-I have been so busy
bringing up my work that got behind
during the campaign, that have not had
time to draw up that paper before.
now enclose it.
."Get all the signatures you can to it,
bat do it so Cunningham or bis friends
will not know it. When you get it ready
send il to me and / will mail it, or send
it to Princeton and let Slayback mail it
r from there
4 81 think the change can be made il
u yon can get q dozen names or so. ii
you can't get so many without the risk
of having it known, get as many as
} you can. W
al have Just written to the P. NJ
GeneraF urging him to turn out all the
Bufsernut Postmasters be can hear of
Il must be done if We wish to succeed
K la 1854 Fa. ~
q "a You should not sign the petition as
you are recommended for the P. M.
"Yonrs truly,
JAMES h. McNEELx, P. NJ. -
"You win see / disguise my hand.
Yoe need not mention who wrote the pc
tition. on Nc"
do not know whether the letter is
genuine or not, as have no copy. 1t
may be or may not be. IL could see
the pretended original, i could say
whether it was genuine or spurious. III
/ wrote such letter, il may have been
CARRIED or added to. l know that men
who would publish q private letter
without the authors consent, would do
anything else necessary to accomplish
their nefarious purposes.
But suppose it is genuine. Suppose I
did write it justa as printed above What
|. fisthere In it to be ashamed Off
The circumstances connected with the
4 Hazleton post-of6ce were these: Marsh.
Cunningham, a Copperhead Of the deep
est dye, was Postmaster. He was active
/. in opposition to the Government, in dis
coursging enistments, in helping to