Yes, we certainly think they ought, and we have not the slightest doubt but that they will, as soon as the coming man, who is to lead in this matter, shall make his appearance. Let us hope that person will soon be on hand.
Queries and Responses.
New York,
July 8th, 1869.
Mr. Editor:—Is it not a most unaccountable fact that the New York Post Office structure, which was to have been commenced some two years since, is as seemingly a myth as one of those “castles in Spain,” of which we all have had at some time of our lives an idea. The site was duly purchased by the United States Government, designs were called for and provided in most eccentric profusion, and the select, if not elect, among the eighth-inch sealed suggestions were liberally paid for in awarded premiums. In fact all that is necessary to trumpet forth an advance was done. Where, then, is the new Post Office? Out of sight—for, even the purchased site itself is not a certainty, then how should we expect to find the Post Office over ground when the ground is not yet decided on.
That Treasury Building at Washington is just now finished, after a lapse of time which makes gray hairs come on in unbidden numbers. Will the infant born this year, behold the promised New York Post Office before his growth of manhood is doubled into
“Lean and slipper’d Pantaloons?”
Alas, the “temporary” addition to that old Dutch church on Nassau street has but too truly proved a prediction, and we of the Empire city will either have to put up with the present arrangement, or build a postal structure of our own. It is evident now that the act of Congress, in this case made and provided, is but