Phenix Gazette

We have for some time heard rumours on the subject of the financial condition of the Post Office, which did not in the least surprise us, because we foresaw and predicted it four years ago, as the consequence of the inexperience of the persons appointed at the outset of the present Administration, to succeed the well-tried, faithful, and capable agents who had so long successfully administered the affairs of that Department. We believe that a deficit may have occurred in the Ways and Means of that establishment, without any impeachment of the integrity of the Officers at the head of it, beyond their having concealed it from the knowledge of Congress, if they were themselves aware of it. After the rumors which have been circulated, it cannot be doubted that the subject will be fully examined at the approaching Session of Congress. It cannot be long, therefore, before all doubt on the subject will be cleared up. We really hope that the amount of deficiency in the funds of the Department will be found to have been overrated by public report, and that, whatever it may be, it will be found not to have been caused by a reckless use of them in rewarding political friends.

Nat. Int.