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Show A Fublic Nuisance. The past office in this city, instead of being a public benefit, i a public nuisinoe, as it is now conducted. Mail a letter for city delivery, and the chances are that that letter will get into the box of the person to whom it is addressed some days after it has been dropped in the office. A gentleman in town received on the 34 instant a letter dropped in for city delivery on the 1st, and he had been regularly to his box expecting the notification which it contained. con-tained. This is only one case a recent re-cent one of many. When it takes a letter two days to travj four yards, there is little wonder if mail matter which has to go a thousand miles neve: gets to its destination. As to what cavernous recesses ' newspapers go into at times, that will probably be best known when all great mysteries are opened. We had a decent post office in the days of Mr. Street. Mr. Moore, when here, was indefatigable in his exertions to have postal matters satisfactory. satis-factory. Col. Wickizer we give credit to for being an energetic officer, but question how far he dare venture to say anything that might offend., so prominent a member of the ;ring'' as Hon. C. M. nawley, who seems to consider himself capable of running the post office, the courts, the entire Territory, and the whole of the United States if necessary ; while we- doubt his ability to run that one-wheeled vehicle ve-hicle known as a wheel-barrow with any degree of success. He has a magnificent mag-nificent talent for meddling, joined to unenviable superiority in muddling ; and as the gross grievances complained of on every hand concerning the post office here have made themselves painfully pain-fully manifest since he, the active deputy, dep-uty, became acting postmaster, the public do not hesitate to give him the entire credit Circumstances compelled us a few years ago to enter into a war with postal culpability and carelessness in this city, and it was continued until un-til the department took the matter in hand and the evils were remedied. We intend pursuing the same couise in this instance, which is, iimply to publish pub-lish facts and forward them to the department de-partment at Washington. |
