The Daily Union

The Letter Again. In our article of yesterday, we attempted to correct the error in the letter to the Picayune, by showing that dead letters must be advertised by law three weeks, and then remain in the office for three months after, before their return as dead letters. There is, however, another class of dead letters which do not require an advertisement, and are returned at the close of the quarter—such as are refused to be taken out by the person addressed. To our great surprise, we learn that, on yesterday, on opening the quarterly returns from Baton Rouge, forty-eight letters addressed to General Taylor were found in a bundle, marked by the postmaster as refused letters; the postage amounting to $7 30. These letters, we learn, are post-marked at different offices in the United States during the months of April, May, and June, directed to Baton Rouge, and refused to be taken from the office by him. Among them are found letters addressed to him from Philadelphia, post-marked the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th of June. The address on those post-marked the 7th and 8th, is believed to be in the handwriting of Gov. Morehead. The handwriting has been shown to some of the members of North Carolina, who unhesitatingly pronounce it his. The letter of the 9th or 10th probably announces his nomination, and is the missing letter of which we have heard so much, for the loss of which the North American of Philadelphia denounces the Post Office Department for "gross mismanagement," and more than intimates that "depredations" have been committed on the correspondence of General Taylor—his letters "abstracted." &c. Such were the charges made of violating the correspondence of Judge White—and with not more truth. What will the North American now say? Is it answered? It seemed to the North American impossible that the letters could have been delivered in proper time and at the proper office, and that no reply should have been made! and hence the postmasters or the department must be censured—charged with abstracting them—of practising an "espionage" on the letters to the General. Will the North American now do justice to the department? We shall see. We understand that at the request of the postmaster at Baton Rouge, the letters have been returned unopened, for delivery to Gen. Taylor.