Railroads and Post Office epartrnent-sundays-
Temper ance-Legal Reform &C.
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correspondence OF inc l!iDune


SrRlHGFIELD, Mass. FEB. =, l342


Tile difficulty between the Post Office Depart
lilont and the Wcstcrn Railroad Corporations, oc-
cnsons excessive annoyance in the way OF getting
urncws. We get our papers from Boston twenty
four hours in advance of the mail, and the same is
true Of news from Albany. The statement Of Geo.
Bliss in the Boston Advertiser presents the facts
fairly, and citizens generally approve of his
course with one exception. We protest most
earnestly and loudly aganstany proPositonf for
carving the mail over our road on Sundays. In
deed, we think it an outrage upon Us, COM
nuntv. that we should be taxed for constructing =
railroad, that our dcpots might be kept open-our
citizens cmploycd-nnd our streets disturbed with
the hum of business on Sundays. We would sub
nit to present annoyanccs sooner than have our
cars panied, and our thoughts distracted with the
laundering trend Of s'thc Iron Horse" throug our
streets on ''tho day Of rest. We are astonishcd
at the ignorance Of our Postmaster General when he
said. .'Nat the great mail route bef7rcen albany
and Boston is By aray Of New York" lihe will
come this way we will show him that the quickest
route from ADdng TO Ne'c York IS 6y rag o.
Boston


1t may be gratifying to some of your readers to
know ,ha, we arc doing great things here. As well
as others elsewhere, in the way OF Washington
temperance. In the space of about two months
something like $500 names had been annexed TO
the Total Abstinence Pledge, in our town; over
2000 Of which were added in this our principal
village. The influence is spreading through our
whole country like fire over the prairlcs On the
:22.2d wc have a grand county celebration.


There is some talk ot little Legal Reform here
III our Bay State, which stands least fair chance
of complexion. 1t proposed TO consolidate our
Supreme Court and our Court of Common Pleas,
and the general impression is gaining ground, 'lat
BY this arrangement our business will be as well
done and far more cxpcdiriou<ly.


Yours 81. BREWSTER.