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As in all extensive establishments abbeys, arsenals, colleges, treasuries, metropolitan post-offices, and monasteries there are many snug little niches, wherein are ensconced certain superannuated old pensioner officials; and, more especially, as in most ecclesiastical establishments, a few choice prebendary stalls are to be found, furnished with well-filled mangers and racks; so, in a man-of-war, there are a variety of similar snuggeries for the benefit of decrepit or rheumatic old tars.
"Country post-offices are very careless in the way they handle things, and mine to you my letters must have gone astray too." "Then you did write to me as you promised, David?" she exclaimed. "Until I got tired of receiving no answer," I returned, laughing. "But of course it is too late to complain to the government now." Penelope was not satisfied. Her brows were knitted.
Thus the Spanish news, which was printed and often fabricated at London, was profusely circulated in the north of Germany. Packets of papers addressed to merchants and well-known persons in the German towns were put into the post-offices of Embden, Kuipphausen, Varel, Oldenburg, Delmenhorst, and Bremen.
This was a very irregular and unsatisfactory state of things, but was better than no mail at all. Then came the wonderful improvement of a weekly mail carried by a messenger on horseback; and as time wore on, the delivery became more frequent, post-offices multiplied, postage rates were reduced, and correspondence increased.
This surprised me, and at Rome, where I had been accustomed to purchase franco-bolli at the head office, I took them home and regummed them. But the remarkable phenomenon was, that such stamps as were purchased at tobacconists' shops had gum on them only those acquired at the post-offices were without.
Only those who are well acquainted with French provincial life can know what it means to them to part with these signs of opulence and commercial success. It is perhaps in the post-offices that you find yourself nearest to the heart of "France behind the lines."
But now came a new trouble, and my youthful mind was soon sadly agitated. The Whig papers, especially the ``New York Express'' and ``Albany Evening Journal, began to bring depressing accounts of the new President, tidings of extensive changes in the offices throughout the country, and especially in the post-offices.
Perhaps the most trying moment was the last, when hearing a few words between Ethel and Mary about posting a mere scrap, if only an empty envelope, from the first resting-place, he turned round, with his laugh, to object to rash promises, and remind his dear sister Ethel that post-offices were not always near at hand!
The postmaster-general establishes post-offices, appoints postmasters and other persons employed in the general post-office, and provides for carrying the mails. He is assisted by three assistant post-masters-general, an auditor of the post-office treasury, to audit and settle the accounts of the department, and to superintend the collection of the debts due the department.
Under this admirable contrivance the post-offices of the world will ere long be so many banks of deposit and exchange for the benefit of the masses, effecting transfers mutually with much greater facility, rapidity and security than the regular banks formerly attained. Still in its infancy, the international money-order system has already reached importance in the magnitude of its operations.
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