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Show THE DENVER POSTMASTER. Among all iMm;i.-t'.rs who-C utli-ci.d utli-ci.d r-'. onl ha.-. U-.-n made public, the -'ntli in. in ullieiating at If. nvi r iniL-t !. ac ordul the palm for downright originality in hi- -y-t. in of peculation and outrage, a.s w.-ll for the iiL--Icii'-e and sneers with whieh he ha.i , ci ii.l .-ut ihL-f sy-t'-in fir years. As 1 1 -.r a-. as ls71, it w.ls a notorious j f.e i that a drop letter n-'iuin-d a w-.-ek j to l L:roll;h tiie I)-nver p"-t olfiee, 1 if it .-V. r Mlree.il, d ill tllW ditt'lClllt I feal : that new-papers were wholly j lo-t ;he iiioment thry were dn.plMl J iiiL'j tlie of thn olliee ; and that Lor man who eotild feel confident tiiat on--thint of hin mail reach' d him, w.l- ..n.-i'l'-rl of a very hopeful and sanguine di-position really a yirt of miniature Mark Tape'v, who e.rtild be jolly under a most cmlitahle array uf grievances. Of course Den- v-i it. .i at lir.-t wildly complained of such a state of affairs. But they were nil i La My snubbed, and they Boon accept ac-cept d the situatiun. Strangcra and transient visiLora were inclined to aiake moro ol a tlisturiiance, but an the sat i-fact ion they rcecivid from the p.jst ollicc clerks, they might "put in their eye," and the clerks proved but worthy representative:) of their employer. em-ployer. L ' to a recent date no one is credited credit-ed with having made any marked advance ad-vance in hiseilhrts to renovate or ventilate ven-tilate the Denver TostoH'ice. Moving into new quarters served but to increase in-crease the air of arrogance with whieh its allairs were administered, and people peo-ple have made the host "of the situation situa-tion until the present season. A cor- respondent of tho New York tells to outsiders the result of efforts since last May in publishing this office. of-fice. Tou rifts have of late been particularly par-ticularly loud in their complaints, and finally a former postmaster from Massachusetts demanded of the Postmaster Post-master General that an investigation .ihould be made. And made it was. As the Sun puts it. "Special agent Fury was sent to Denver. Ho spent several days in tho city, found the postmaster strongly intrenched politically, politi-cally, and thought it advisable, to whitewash him in the most approved Credit Mobiliertylc." Tliis was expected ex-pected to end the matter, but a city newspaper man got after the post-otlice post-otlice and soon scaled off the coating of whitewash. The result of this independent in-dependent investigation revealed a state of rottenness that placed the Denver postmaster at once at the head of the little great men of the times, and warrants the present administration admin-istration in clasping him close U) its paternal bosom. The condition of ail'airs in 1S71 was found to be greatly improved upon. It now requires any length of time, fronia week to eternity, to get a drop letter through the ollicc. Checks are delayed indefinite periods, and fre- qently never received. Dozens of letters with uncancelled stamps are found among the paper rags sent to the Golden City paper mill; and as for newspapers, the regular nunlux tyi-miidi is to shovel them into large baskets as soon as the mails arrive, and after dark send them to Chinese laundries where they are sold for seventy-five cents a hundred. The Sun gives lists of various paper3 found at the "jimk shops" of 'long Leo, &un Hink. and Wins Lee. The list cov ers alxmt a hundred of the leading papers in tho country. The correspondent corres-pondent closes his account of this interesting post office and its master, by remarking that none of the clerks have been removed and that the master feels so secure in hisscat that he grossly abuses the person who made the expose; while administration administra-tion papers denounce the same person as "an escaped criminal," "an old scandal monger' and "a blue bellied bel-lied Yankee." The great marvel is that so gifted a genius as this postmaster post-master was ever located in any other city than Salt Lake. His presence here would have pro veil invaluable to the administration ranks. Is it too late to make a transfer? |