The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-14

ton should be made to encourage Americau
enterprise. Far better would it be to use the
funds in the Treasury for this purpose than in
squandering them upon huge and corrupt
charity institutions for the benefit of single
GLASS in any community.
SALARIES OF Posr OFFICE CLERKs.-The clerks
In the Post Office of this city complain and
very justly, of being hard worked and poorly
paid. The Postmaster states that he finds it
very difficult to keep his best men at all, and
the danger is that he will soon be obliged to
accept lower standard of men who will not
be qualified to discharge the duties properly.
The labors Of an employee in our Post Office
are very arduous. The duties are such as
should be entrusted only to competent, reliable
and experienced persons. They should be
literally paid for their services. 1t is but just
that they should receive as liberal return for
their services from the government as men of
the same capacity and hours of labor could re-
ceive in business circles. That this is not the
case now any person at all conversant with the
affairs of the Post Office very well knows. The
salaries of the clerks in several of the other
Post Offices of the country have been recently
raised, but for some reason this boon is refused
here where it is more needed and the labors
more arduous than at any other point. There
is no other Post Office in the country where the
mails received and sent out compare with those
of this city. The receipts are greatly in excess
of all others. Notwithstanding these facts
the general government exercises penurious
spirit, neither furnishes Post Office building
fit to be seen, nor pays the men in accordance
with the duties performed. There is hardly an
inland town in the country that cannot boast of
better Post Office than New York. Yet here
the government receives the bulk of It's income
from the Post Office Department. There is no
trouble in raising the salaries Of the clerks at
other places, but every attempt at an increase
here, where circumstances, the business Of the
Office and the duties Of the men require, is met
with denial by some red tape official in the
General Post Office at Washington. Our entire
business community is interested in this matter,
for their correspondence passes through the
hands of these men, and it makes a very great
difference whether competent men have charge
of the mails or not A salary should be paid
tIlaI Will COIulndHu BOOu Ineu, unu we WOuiu
have less trouble about letters and papers.
The CHOLERA FAILURE.-It is unfortunate for
those journals which have been trying to get up
a cholera panic, that we have no cholera in the
city after all. Not single case of the genuine
disease has occurred here, and the physicians
say that even those cases of cholera character,
which are always prevalent at this season,
yield more readily to medical treatment than
ever before. 1t is not satisfactorily proved
that the epidemic which ragged on board ship,
and has now declined, was Asiatic cholera, nor
that 1t was contagious. The probability is that
tho sickness arose from the crowded state OF
the two steamships of the line on which the
disease broke out, the bad ventilation and the
unwholesomc food served to the steerage pas
sengers, and not from infection introduced
from any European port; so that there is no
necessity for any one to run away from the
city. County people may come here, either
for business or pleasure, without any danger Of
catching the cholera, and the landlords of coun-
try hotels and boarding houses will be disap-
pointed in their anticipated extortons which
they were preparing for the frightened visitors
from the city.
REFORM IN the TELEGRAPH BUSINESS NEED