Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1870-06-30
Post Office War Concluded

We publish the following communi-
cation on the \. l.. IIarbor T. Office
question. II j. the last one we can con
sent to insert. unless put into the adj
vertising columns. andpaid for a advcI-
Using matter. We desired to give both
sides the opportunity to be- heard. nut
did not expect that the discussion would
continue all summer.
MR. SAWYER
did not intend to enter another bat
IN in the present war. but a. the enemy
seems To keep firing away. (and n |
have enlisted in the cau-e) suppose
must perform my part, when duty cali,
A. il j. the wish OF the people. that some
one on rhi, side should contradict tie
false stories that c. II. Clements. COR
the Young Lawyer as he i STYLED has
published will do -. la the first
place, +. NJ. Hamor ought to know
something about how the mail Ia, been
garfield ~ the wasgatt-. About the
people wanting the Office on the west
side. | never heard Of it before. and il
i false il the lawyer does say %: and
the person who went acros, the Harbor
after his mail. did not quarrel witt. Mr..
Wasgatt, a, | understand it. but Mrs.
W had the most To say. and the person
referred 10, l. not at all quarrelsome.
A. TO Mr.. Carson carving the mail
he did not agree to take it any farther
than the head of the IIarbor, "a he is
quite lame, and ii would be trouble
Tor him 10 90 on the other road, especi-
ally in the winter And rs 10 the mail
bag hanging on the :encc, because Mrs
Roberts would not have il in the house,
that i "A falschood for she did not refuse
70 BE- troubled with it. for months after.
and she has carried the mail bag down
to the Office herself many times.
About the mail not being collected
by the women and children. think
that must be wrong story a. the peo-
pie are mostly sealaring men and do
not think that they would come into
harbor on purpose 10 90 after their
mail. Mr.. Clements says he has no
wife or children, that is even 80. aud
think perhaps it is for the best, for he
has enough to do 10 carry news. with
out having a family TO attend to. As to
the people going 10 Mt. Desert after
their mail instead of having il come in
the mailbag, that is not so, for the peo-
pie have been up to the =. o. at Somes-
vile, and have not taken their mail.
but have come home and sent over TO
the p. o. and got the mail, when they
might have taken it if they chose to do
so: and as to buying stamps, the people
have bought a great many stamps Of
them, for if we go there to trade &c.
they would give stamps for change, and
Mrs. W. has been over to the store and
brought stamps for change, but no one
found fault. As TO finding soil to grease
our gear" we happen to have supply !
on hand, and if we had not think that
Lawyer Clements has none left, for he |
has used all he had to oil his tongue.
As to P. NJ. Roberts keeping back a
letter, that is also false, as the letter did /.
not come down until Monday, and Mr.. |
Hamor sent it by some one and it was
forwarded on arrival at the Post Office. |
by the first man going that way.
About the people on the East side
being satisfied with the old p. NJ. that
is also big untruth as they were al
ways finding fault with the mail regu-
latiOns, and have been to d. Kimball's |
for him to write petition for the re-
moval OF the P. 0. They were not par
ticular where it was, only remove it
from Wasgatts. That is the truth, and
the person that thought it was mean
business to carry the petition round, is
a rank "copperhead,' and was all
through the rebellion, but got beat and
has growled ever since.
Yours,
j. c.
June oath, 1870.
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